ISCR News Items
Current News
- Toby Daglish Melbourne University Feb 2012 presentation
- Diverse Dimensions of the 'Digital Divide': Perspectives from New Zealand - presentation by Bronwyn Howell
- View the latest Current Comment, by Professor Lew Evans. Added in response to the Editorial comments in the NZ Herald 11 January 2012 relating to the partial privatisation of (electricity) SOEs.
- UPCOMING SEMINAR 2 March 2012: International Internet Roaming presented by Simona Fabrizi
- Slides are now available from the seminar held 2 Feb 2012 presented by Bert Sadowski, visiting ST Lee Fellow
- Brownyn Howell presented "The Antipodean Approach: Government-Funded Ultrafast Broadband Networks" at the Pacific Telecommunications Conference Jan 2012
- Bronwyn Howell appointed to the International Telecommunications Society Board
- Slides are now available from the electricity seminar held 15 November
- Professional development opportunity: Economics for Managers and Policy-makers, to be held 1 and 2 December
- Research Director appointed for ISCR
- Toby Daglish presented "The Valuation of Equity Futures on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1920-23" at Otago University on 4 November 2011.
- 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
- Lew Evans presents Partial Sale of SOEs - Statism vs Participatory Democracy to LEANZ members in Auckland
- View Bronwyn Howell's presentation From Providers to PHOs: an institutional analysis of nonprofit primary health care governance in New Zealand
- View Bronwyn's presentation to ITS at the European Regional Conference, Budapest
- View Bronwyn Howell's presentations on telecommunications in Den Haag and Eindhoven
- View the presentations for: Selling the Family Tin? Rail Privatisation in New Zealand
- Jonathan Karp returns to New Zealand under the Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy for 2011.
- ACC Stocktake: Opportunities for Improvement - presentation by Neil Quigley to LEANZ gathering
- Slides from Richard Meade's seminar "Competition bad, less competition better?" are now available
- Bronwyn Howell presents at CommsDay Summit in Auckland
- Upcoming seminar 3 August: Competition Bad, Less Competition Better? How Industry Structure and Competition affect Investment and Welfare in Infrastructure Industries.
- Slides now available from seminar: Economic Incentives in the Hospice Care Setting: A Comparison of For-Profit and Nonprofit Providers
- Slides now available from: Reaching for the Regulatory Frontier, Wellington, 8 July
- International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific Conference, Taipei 26-28 June 2011 - presentation by Bronwyn Howell
- Best paper prize winner New Zealand Financial Colloquium
- Slides are now available for the seminar presented on 15 June: Payments, Participants and Network Supply
- Professional Development ( July): Economics for Managers & Policymakers
- Slides are now available from 25 May 2011 seminar: Smart Evaluation of Electric Utility Smart Grid Investment Proposals
- Slides are now available from the seminar entitled Megagovernance and the Role of cultural Norms in the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment: Trans-Tasman FDI Regimes
- Slides available from the 5th Annual Regulatory Evolution Summit
- Slides are now available from Seminar: "Financial Contracts, Carbon Banking and the Management of Carbon Credits in Small Scale Plantation Forests".
- Professional Development - Course: Understanding Economics for Network Industries
- New publication: The Impacts and Benefits of Structural Reforms in Transport, Energy and Telecommunications Sectors
- Seminar slides available - "Is There a Cooperative Advantage?"
- Honours for Lew Evans
- ISCR student, Gabriel Fiuza de Braganca, takes top prize in PhD Conference 2010
- Slides are now available from the seminar - Private Selection and Arbitration Neutrality
- Slides are now available for the seminar: The Tyranny of Distance Prevails
- Telecommunications seminar - The Tyranny of Distance Prevails - 8 December
- Telecommunications: Presentation to the OECD and African Development Bank by Bronwyn Howell
- Slide presentations and papers are now available from ASIA-PACIFIC ITS REGIONAL CONFERENCE
- Slides from Dave Heatley's seminar on land populism vs. propserity and Chris Nixon's presentation on navigating the economic, political and institutional icebergs presented on November 11, 2010
- Invitation to attend an upcoming Wellington seminar 11 November
- Latest statement issued by the ANZSFRC in September - Retail finance: a path forward for education, advice and disclosure.
- Climate and the NZ Electricity Spot Market. Presentation by Lew Evans to the Energy Roundtable, Wellington on 8 September 2010
- Slides now available from seminar - Vertically Integrated Electricity Generators – Villains, Victims or Heroes?
- International presentation by Gabriel Fiuza to WEAI 85th Annual Conference
- Current Comment 2010 No. 2, Ultra-fast Broadband Internet 2.0 added
- Lew Evans presented Infrastructure Investment and Uncertainty at the IPS/Motu workshop
- Slide presentation to LEANZ on 12 July 2010, Overseas Investment: Is New Zealand 'Open for Business' now available
- Seminar July 12: Bronwyn Howell and Dave Heatley present Overseas Investment: Is New Zealand 'Open For Business'?
- Bronwyn Howell presents at the 18th Biennial conference of the International Telecommunications Society
- Slides now available for seminar held 22 June - Living with Mortgage Break Fees
- TVNZ interview Dave Heatley on the Budget 2010 KiwiRail announcement
- Greg Sidak presents "Update on the U.S. Net Neutrality Experience"
- Bronwyn Howell and Dave Heatley present at the Internet New Zealand Ultrafast Broadband Workshop, 19 May 2010
- Slides are now available from the recent seminars held in Wellington and Auckland - "A Theoretical Analysis of Special Safeguards"
- Seminar - Auckland 11 May - "A Theoretical Analysis of Special Safeguards"
- Slides are now available for our March seminar: "Governments in the Telco business: prudential investment or pursuing non-economic purposes?"
- Current Comment - Will abolishing the Telecommunications Service Order compensation end universal service pricing in New Zealand?
- Bronwyn Howell presents at the Economics of Infrastructure in a Globalised World: Issues, Lessons and Future Challenges. Sydney, 19 March 2010
- Prof Lewis Evans recently presented "The efficiency of collusion and criminal sanctions in New Zealand" at a LEANZ seminar
- Reflections on the Report of the Tax Working Group - paper now available
- Bronwyn Howell presents "Governments in the Telco busines: prudential investors or bureaucratic intruders? at the Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney on 25 February
- "Sunlight by Design: How can we improve public scrutiny of corporate financial filings?" Talk/discussion hosted by Jonathan Karp to be held in Wellington Friday 12 February 2010.
- Presentation to the ACCC
- Newsletter - Issue 30 posted.
- Slides are now available from our November seminar: Forecasting for competitors and regulators
- Current Comment (2) - is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues
- Bronwyn Howell recently provided commentary at a Motu Seminar: The Need for Speed: Impacts of Internet Connectivity on Firm Productivity
- Slides are now available for the following seminar held 8 October 2009 - Digital Rights and Copyright in NZ: s 92A and the Institutional Role of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the Copyright Tribunal.
- Australia-New Zealand Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee
- Current Comment (1) - is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues.
- Bronwyn Howell presents Structural Separation Versus Vertical Integration at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Washington VA, 27 September 2009
- Law and Economics Association of New Zealand (LEANZ) elects Inaugural Fellows
- Slide presentation to NZARES Conference, Nelson on Forest and Forest Land Valuation
- Shadow Financial regulatory Committees of Asia, Australia-New Zealand, Europe, Japan, Latin-America, and the United States: 2009 Joint Statement
- Bronwyn presents at the International Telecommunications Society - Perth 16-18 August 2009
- Slides from Auckland seminar now available
- Slides are now available for seminar: Regulating and Managing When Everything is in Flux: New Ideas About Resilience
- Slides available from Dave Heatley's presentation in Christchurch - "Does rail have a future in New Zealand?
- Slides are now available from the Wellington Seminar 23 July: The Structure and Performance of the NZ and UK Public Sectors: A Comparative Commentary
- Slides are now available for 20 July seminar: 'What to make of the Wolak Report'
- Paper now available - June seminar: Tax and Tax Tensions: Designing Direct Tax Structures
- Slides are now available from our May seminar on Cutting the ties that bind: structural separation and incentives for New Zealand's fibre-optic broadband
- Christchurch seminar: Is Vertical Integration the Natural State of Affairs in Electricity? Re-run in Christchurch on June 5
- Slides available from ISCR April seminar: Is Vertical Integration the Natural State of Affairs in Electricity?
- ISCR April seminar: Is Vertical Integration the Natural State of Affairs in Electricity?
- Slide Presentation now available: Protection of Private Property Rights and Just Compensation
- Paper & Slide Presentation for MMBA579 Best Paper Award now available
- Slide presentation by Richard Meade to AARES 53rd Annual Conference
- Dave Heatley participates in Radio NZ talk show on rail in New Zealand
- Slides on "The future of Rail in New Zealand" are now available
- ISCR February Seminar: The future of rail in New Zealand?
- Electricity Markets Workshop - slide presentation by Richard Meade
- E-Book added to website
- Acting Director appointed to ISCR
- Slides from November Seminar: "Competition Policy versus Regulation in Electricity Systems - Determining the Boundary"
- Slides from Lew Evans' address to the Transpower 2040 Stakeholder Workshop
- ISCR November Seminar: Competition Policy versus Regulation in Electricity Systems - Determining the Boundary
- Richard Meade invited to speak at electricity markets workshop
- Slides are now available for ISCR/LEANZ October Seminar - Electricity Network Price Regulation: An Update
- Rob Cameron to speak at corporate governance conference
- Bronwyn Howell's European Seminars
- iPredict launches: New Zealand's first real-money prediction market
- Slides are now available for ISCR August Seminar-Electricity Network Price Regulation: An Update
- Slides are now available for ISCR July Seminar- Allocating Water among Competing Uses: The Potential for Water Markets in New Zealand
- Video for: Should New Zealand Fight Climate Change? Boston and Meade Debate the Issues held on 15 April 2008 now available
- Slides are now available for ISCR June Seminar, The Power of Persuasion: Can Advertising Help You Quit Smoking?
- Responding to the Sub-prime Crisis: Statement 4 from Australia-NZ Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (ANZSFRC)
- Professor Donald Kenkel: 2008 S.T. Lee Fellow
- Professor Jay Pil Choi: ISCR Visiting Scholar
- Dr. Christopher Goemans: ISCR Visiting Scholar
- Slides available for the ISCR May Seminar: Ageing Infrastructure Investment: “Wall of Wire” or “Wall of Confusion”? What are the Issues and What Do They Tell Us?
- Slides available for the ISCR & CAGTR May Seminar: Identifying the Characteristics of a Good Tax System
- Slides from Recent Seminars
- Slides available for the ISCR May Seminar: Finnish and New Zealand Telecommunications Markets: Unbundling the Differences
- Slides available for the ISCR April Seminar: Should New Zealand Fight Climate Change? Boston and Meade Debate the Issues
- The ISCR Best Paper Prize at the 2007 NZ Finance Colloquium
- ISCR Seminar: Finnish and New Zealand Telecommunications Markets: Unbundling the Differences
- ANZSFRC Inaugural Meeting
- ISCR Research Published
- ISCR awards prizes to MBA students
- Slides available for the ISCR March Seminar: Policy Watch Governments at the Bidding Table
- ISCR awards prizes at the NZ Finance Colloquium
- Slides available for the ISCR March Seminar: {GOD IS [GREAT} WALL STREET]
- Presentation Slides from the February 2008 Workshop on Electricity Price Regulation
- New Board Chair for ISCR