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News and Events

Upcoming Seminar 2 March 2012: International Internet Roaming presented by Simona Fabrizi

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Brownyn Howell presented "The Antipodean Approach: Government-Funded Ultrafast Broadband Networks" at the Pacific Telecommunications Conference Jan 2012

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Seminar 2 Feb 2012: Experimental Users and Demand for Next Generation Access Networks: A European Perspective

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Bronwyn Howell appointed to the International Telecommunications Society Board

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Slides are now available from the electricity seminar held 15 November

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Professional development opportunity: Economics for Managers and Policy-makers, to be held 1 and 2 December

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Research Director appointed for ISCR

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Toby Daglish presented "The Valuation of Equity Futures on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1920-23" at Otago University on 4 November 2011.

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Slides are now available from the 3 November Seminar: An International Perspective on Australia's NBN, presented by Professor Catherine Middleton of Ryerson University, Toronto Canada

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Lew Evans presents Partial Sale of SOEs - Statism vs Participatory Democracy to LEANZ members in Auckland

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Latest research

Jan
2012

A Critique of Wolak’s Evaluation of the NZ Electricity Market: Introduction and Overview

Authors: Lewis Evans, Seamus Hogan, Peter Jackson

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Dec
2011

Legal Protection for the Database: Is there a better way?

Authors: Susan Corbett, Bronwyn Howell, Mina Moayyed

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Nov
2011

New Zealand Corporate Boards in Transition: Composition, Activity and Incentives Between 1995 and 2010

Authors: Glenn Boyle, Xu (Jane) Ji

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Aug
2011

Can the US Import "Sunlight" from New Zealand? An Assessment of New Zealand's Model for Corporate Financial Disclosure

Author: Jonathan Karp

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Jul
2011

Policy Considerations for the New Zealand Natural Gas Industry

Authors: Stanford Levin, Alfred Duncan

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Jul
2011

Economic Incentives in the Hospice Care Setting: A Comparison of For-profit and Nonprofit Providers

Authors: Kelly Noe, Dana Forgione

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