The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation · ISCR: Recent submissions

  • Grid Characteristics and the Interface Between Competition and Regulation Policies 
    Meade, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    This presentation explores the demarcation of this boundary and how it is affected by grid characteristics as a first step towards an ongoing comparative analysis of the institutional dynamics of competition and regulation ...
  • Evaluation of Electricity Lines Price Control 
    Mellsop, James (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    This presentation looks at: Analysis of the current regimeReview of Cabinet RecommendationsReview of Commission Threshold proposals
  • Competition and Pricing the HVDC Element of the Grid 
    Evans, Lewis (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    This presentation looks at:Discussion of peculiarly grid regulation issues A quick stock take of the state of "onr market": particularly concerning the interisland link Competition and pricing the HVDC interconnection
  • A Scheme For Incentivizing Investment in Transmission Enhancements 
    Contreras, Javier; Gross, George; Ruiz-Gomez, Isabel (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    We present an incentive scheme to stimulate investment in the improvement/ expansion of the transmission network in the competitive market environment. The formulation of these incentives is based on a decentralized ...
  • A Scheme For Incentivizing Investment in Transmission Enhancements 
    Contreras, Javier (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Providing the right incentives for investment continues to be a major source of concern in the New Zealand electricity sector. This seminar outlines a decentralised incentive mechanism designed to encourage transmission ...
  • Meat Industry Performance and Organisational Form 
    Evans, Lewis; Grace, Eli-Webb (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    The purpose of this report is to review the contemporary history of the meat packing industry and particularly the role of cooperatives and investor-owned firms in its development. The report that follows is divided into ...
  • Policy Watch: Governments at the Bidding Table 
    Van, Johannes Biesebroeck (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    While governments the world over have been debating with how much vigour to pursue foreign investment projects the New Zealand government has recently indicated a reduced appetite for this activity. It has maintained even ...
  • The Multinationalisation of New Zealand Agri-Businesses: Drivers, Implications, Issues and Opportunities 
    Meade, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Richard Meade presented The Multinationalisation of New Zealand Agri-Businesses: Drivers Implications Issues and Opportunities In Wellington on 6 December 2007. A recent report by Lew Evans and Richard Meade for MAF* ...
  • A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand's Telecommunications Regulation 1987-2007 
    Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    New Zealand was the first country in the OECD to adopt a 'light-handed' approach to telecommunications regulation when in 1987 it eschewed industry-specific regulation for a generic competition law-based approach. The ...
  • Elements of Effective Insider Trading Laws 
    Gilbert, Aaron; Frijns, Bart; Tourani, Alireza-Rad (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    While countries have been more than willing to regulate insider trading it is an open question as to whether this has resulted in improvements for those markets. In particular lawmakers have had to largely structure the ...
  • The Limited Gains From Complex Tariffs 
    Miravete, Eugenio (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    This paper uses an equilibrium model of multipart nonlinear pricing to determine the magnitude of foregone profits due to the implementation of simple tariff options. I then use the available information from a cross-section ...
  • Enforcement Missions: Targets vs Budgets 
    Heyes, Anthony; Kapur, Sandeep (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Enforcement of policy is typically delegated. What sort of mission should the head of an enforcement program be given? When there is more than one firm being regulated their compliance decisions - otherwise completely ...
  • Sarbanes-Oxley and its Aftermath: A Review of the Evidence 
    Boyle, Glenn; Grace-Webb, Eli (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Introduced in response to several high profile US corporate collapses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 has proven to be a gold mine for academic researchers: after only five years no less than 528 studies of SOX appear ...
  • Regulation: Where are we going? 
    Evans, Lewis (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Lew Evans assesses the state of play in New Zealand regulation at The Institute of Directors (Wellington Branch) Breakfast address on 11 October 2007.
  • Paying for Urban Water Services: Some Insights from Across the Ditch 
    Chris Hunt (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Chris Hunt presented Paying for Urban Water Services: Some Insights from Across the Ditch at an ISCR in September 2007
  • The Effect of Industry Structure and Institutional Arrangements on Growth and Innovation in the New Zealand Agriculture Sector 
    Evans, Lewis; Meade, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    How do industry structures and other institutional arrangements affect growth and innovation in the New Zealand agricultural sector? Put another way how can those structures and arrangements be improved to better facilitate ...
  • Commodity Price Behavior With Storage Frictions 
    Evans, Lewis; Guthrie, Graeme (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    We present a competitive storage model of commodity prices featuring frictions that introduce an element of irreversibility into storage decisions. This leads to situations in which speculators do not trade in the spot ...
  • Valuing the Impact of Climate Change Policies on Forestry 
    Meade, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    Conventional forest valuation approaches do not account for discretions foresters have in making key irreversible decisions such as when and if to harvest in the light of uncertain future decision variables. Furthermore ...
  • Pendulous Progression: 20 Years of Telecommunications Regulation in New Zealand 
    Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Bronwyn Howell presented A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand Telecommunications Regulation 1987-2007 at FICORA (Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority) in June 2007.
  • The Doubtful Profitability of Foggy Pricing 
    Miravete, Eugenio (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    A particular tariff option is said to be foggy when another option or a combination of other tariff options offered by the same firm is always less expensive regardless of the usage profile of any customer. Alternatively ...

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