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

  • The Privatization of New Zealand Rail Part 1: Assessment of History Markets and Data 
    The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)
    The Treasury requested tenders for an empirical evaluation of the impact on the New Zealand economy of the privatisation of NZ Rail Limited now Tranz Rail Ltd. Their terms of reference were to: determine the nature and ...
  • Economic Measurement and the Authorisation Process: The Expanding Place of Quantitative Analysis 
    Evans, Lewis (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)
    The paper takes the efficiency objective of the authorisation process under theCommerce Act 1986 as given. This objective makes competition law completely consistent with thrust of New Zealand public policy since the early ...
  • The Optimal Network Contract Under Partial Bypass in Oligopolistic Network Industries 
    Evans, Lewis; Burnell, Stephen; Yao, Shuntian (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)
    The rapid widespread technological change and concomitant deregulation of network industries has engendered a burgeoning demand for connection between technologically similar as well as technologically dissimilar networks. ...
  • The Law and Economic Basis of Enforcement of Governance of Private Joint Venture Network Markets: the case of NZEM 
    Evans, Lewis; Arnold, Terence (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)
    The purpose of this paper is to point out the feasibility of joint ventures contracting out of using Courts to resolve disputes and to explain and assess the enforcement of the rules that form the governance of the New ...
  • A Response to Vaithianathans the Failure of Corporitisation: Public Hospitals in New Zealand 
    Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    Rhema Vaithianathan's article The Failure of Corporatisation: Public Hospitals in New Zealand (Agenda 6(4) 1999 325-338) argues that corporatisation of New Zealand's public hospitals failed to yield the expected efficiency ...
  • Compulsory Access to Essential Facilities under section 36 of the New Zealand Commerce Act in the Light of Experience in Australia, the EC and the USA 
    Korah, Valentine (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    There is concern in many jurisdictions that firms found to enjoysubstantial market power may be under a special responsibility to grant to their competitors access to essential facilities. Where a firm enjoying market power ...
  • The Efficiency of Contractual Arrangements in Private Agricultural Product Markets 
    Quigley, Neil; Evans, Lewis; Boyd, Haleigh (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    Co-operatives provide a vehicle for the vertical integration of production andprocessing in agriculture. The producers provide capital for and control theprocessing entity so that their interests are aligned. Returns to ...
  • The State of the Failing Company Defence in New Zealand 
    Berry, Mark (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    This brief outline identifies the various issues which confront the failing company defence. This article will:(1) briefly outline the competition laws which apply to mergers in New Zealand;(2) examine the theoretical basis ...
  • Dividends and Exploration 
    Faccio, Mara; Lang, Larry H.P.; Leung, Joanne (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    In Western Europe and East Asia capital markets require higher dividends from corporations tightly affiliated (at the 20% level of control) to a group and within a group from corporations whose controlling shareholder has ...
  • Internet Service Providers (ISP) Markets of Australia and New Zealand 
    Evans, Lewis; de Boer, David Boles; Enright, Christina (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    This paper compares the Australian and New Zealand Internet market. It draws heavily on Enright (2000) which reports the short history of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in New Zealand since the inception of the Internet ...
  • Strategic Behaviour of Internet Service Providers in New Zealand and the Performance of this Market 
    Enright, Christina (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    This study provides an economic history of the Internet access market in New Zealand from 1996 essentially the inception of the market to early 1999. It reviews the strategy literature about entry to new markets and tests ...
  • Economic Performance of Five State-Owned Enterprises 1989-1998 
    Evans, Lewis; de Boer, David Boles (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    This report describes the process and results of the evaluation of five State Owned Enterprises (SOEs). It incorporates a comparison of their performance with that of NZ Rail. The SOE study taken as a whole is useful in ...
  • An Essay on the Concept of Dynamic Efficiency and its Implications for Assessments of the Benefits from Regulation and Price Control 
    Zhang, Jie; Quigley, Neil; Evans, Lewis (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    Allocative and productive efficiency are static concepts in the sense that they relate to welfare at a point in time. Allocative and productive efficiency reflect the outcome at a single point in time of resource allocation ...
  • Governance of the Internet: Emerging Issues 
    Evans, Lewis; de Boer, David Boles; Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    The Internet and associated networks and devices are intruding throughout social and commercial activity. They are improving information exchange storage and utilisation to an extent that is re-shaping the structure and ...
  • The State of e-New Zealand 
    Evans, Lewis; de Boer, David Boles; Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    Our study is based upon publicly available sources of information. Internationally published statistics have been used to supplement New Zealand data to assess New Zealand's relative position. While international studies ...
  • The Rural-Urban "Digital Divide" in New Zealand: Fact or Fable? 
    Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)
    Much attention in recent months has been focused upon both the existence and the extent of a "digital divide" between urban New Zealanders and their rural counterparts. A commonly held perception is that rural New Zealanders ...
  • The Efficiencies Defence in Merger Analysis: A New Zealand Perspective 
    Berry, Mark; Pickford, Mike (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    New Zealand's current competition laws like Canada's are comparatively new. The Commerce Act (the "Act") and Canada's Competition Act were both passed in 1986. The New Zealand Act in essence recognises the efficiencies ...
  • The Efficiencies Defence in Merger Analysis in Canada and the US 
    Mathewson, Frank (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    Whatever the statutory differences or language differences in Guidelines between Canada and the US the application of competition rules and procedures is remarkably similar in the two countries. Recent adjustments to the ...
  • The Effect of Income on Optimal Two Part Tariffs 
    Srzich, Antony (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    Two-part tariffs are a common feature of utility pricing. In particular telecommunications firms apply the two-part tariff to pricing telephony for which there is a telephone network access price and a telephone call price. ...
  • Taxation Treatment of Information Service Provision 
    Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    The business of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) requires labour computers and (typically leased) bandwidth. All these elements are generally competitively available both within countries and internationally. The fact ...

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