• A Proposed Pathway towards future reform of New Zealand’s de minimis threshold 

  Steel, Will; Daglish, Toby; Marriott, Lisa; Gemmell, Norman; Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  Imports into New Zealand are tax free if the duty and GST payable is less than $60. This has resulted in an effective value threshold of between $226 and $399, significantly higher than many of our trading partners. We ...
• Profit Definitions Galore: the case of electricity' by Lew Evans 

  Evans, Lewis (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  This Current Comment was posted by Lew Evans. 'Profit' and 'cost' in electricity have multiple meanings that are shaping the electricity debate.This note sets out the meanings and origins of four profit measures referred ...
• Structural Separation and Technological Diffusion 

  Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

  Vertical separation of upstream network operations from downstream retail activities, as the most extreme form of access regulation,has long been considered a legitimate regulatory remedy against use of market powerin ...
• Lew Evans presents seminar to Brazilian Co-op Delagates on 3 Sept 2012 'The Position and Evolution of Cooperative Firms Application to NZ Dairy' 

  Evans, Lew (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

  This seminar was presented to ISCR members and a visiting delegation of 30 Presidents and Directors of cooperatives of the Brazilian State of Parana drawn mainly from the agricultural and credit sectors.
• Cooperatives in New Zealand: The Particular Case of Dairy presented by Lew Evans 

  Evans, Lew (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

  Lew Evans presented this seminar on 3 September to ISCR Members and a delegation of 30 Presidents and Directors of cooperatives of the Brazilian State of Parana drawn mainly from the agricultural and credit sectors,
• Cost Shifting the single buyer model with price discrimination' by Lew Evans 

  Evans, Lewis (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  This Current Comment was posted by Lew Evans and analyses the current proposal for a single buyer and price discrimination.
• Regulating Gasoline Prices: Experimental Evidence' presented by Dr Prof Justus Haucap on 24 Jan 2013 

  Haucap, Justus (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  If retail gasoline prices are to be regulated, is it better to allow only one price increase per day (while price cuts are always possible) as in Austria, impose a maximum retailer mark-up as in Luxembourg , or allow only ...
• Water is valuable: the allocation of water and other resources in the New Zealand electricity market 

  Tam, Diana; Evans, Lewis (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  This monograph investigates the role of the electricity market in the allocation of water and other resources used as inputs into electricity generation. We base our observations on the outputs of an original electricity ...
• The Allocation of Water by the New Zealand Electricity Market: effects of particular climatic changes' presented by Lew Evans for MOTU on 8 Nov at BP House, Wellington 

  Evans, Lew (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

  This seminar shows the way the electricity market utilises river flows and the effect of changes in characteristics of these flows on the production and consumption of electricity. It shows how the reservoirs and non-hydro ...
• An Exploration of School Quality, House Prices and Geographical Location in Wellington, New Zealand 

  Daglish, Toby; De Roiste, Mairead (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

  ISCR and Victoria University of Wellington undertook a project with Sarah Crilly, a Higher Diploma of Data Science and Analytics student at the Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland in a project investigating school quality ...
• Potential Effects of New Zealand's Policy on Next Generation High-Speed Access Networks 

  Winkler, Kay (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

  New Zealands strategy to deploy ultra-fast next generation access networks (NGA) on the basis of fibre to the home (FTTH) to the majority of the population by 2019 involves specific public private partnerships for dedicated ...
• Broadband Regulation & Government Investment in Ultrafast Fibre Broadband Networks: Evidence from New Zealand 

  Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  Howell, Bronwyn recently attended the 2013 European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, held in Florence, Italy from 20-23 October.
• Telecommunications in New Zealand: Regulating for Infrastructure Competition Reality, 12 July 2013 

  Howell, Bronwyn; Haucap, Justus; Nicholls, Rob; Glass, Hayden; Abbott, Chris (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  In February, Communications minister Amy Adams brought forward the planned review of the regulatory arrangements for New Zealand's telecommunications sector. The move was prompted by emerging tensions between the Commerce ...
• Fit for Purpose? Examining the Current State of Broadband Regulation in NZ', presented by Howell, Bronwyn on 6 March 2013 

  Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  Presentation of Fit For Purpose? Examining the Current State of Broadband Regulation in New Zealand
• If Electricity Liberalisation Is Working, Then Why Do So Many People Hate It?', presented by Prof James Bushnell 7 August 2013 

  Bushnell, James (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  Attitudes towards the proper form of organisation and regulation of the electricity sector have shifted several times over the past two decades. These shifts include a wave of liberalisation that encompassed many regions ...
• How to get from Avalon to Berhampore: commuting and car ownership decisions in Wellington, NZ' presented by Toby Daglish on 15 May 2013 

  Daglish, Toby (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  Commuting decisions have major implications for government departments, city and regional councils, car dealers, petrol stations, and household pocket books. We use the NZ Household Travel Survey to explore the decisions ...
• Public-Private Partnerships: Building Infrastructure for the Future, 29 August 2013 

  The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (ISCR) hosted a one day Conference and Executive Development workshops bringing together the latest research and experience of Public-Private Partnerships ...
• The Administration of New Zealand Irrigation: History and Analysis 

  Le Prou, Rene (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

  The sharply contrasting ways in which community irrigation schemes in New Zealand were developed and managed before and after 1990 illustrate the operation of decentralised vis-à-vis centralised (planning) industry governance ...
• Fit for Purpose? Examining the Current State of Broadband Regulation in NZ', presented by Howell, Bronwyn on 8 May 2013 

  Howell, Bronwyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  This seminar, presented at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, Auckland is a repeat of Howell, Bronwyns seminar presented on 6 March in Wellington.
• NZ Power - Mainstream or Mad? 

  Gerritsen, Ben (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

  The Labour Party and the Greens have made electricity sector restructuring a key plank of their 2014 election campaign. Their proposal to replace New Zealand's wholesale electricity market with a central buyer (known as ...

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