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News and Events

Diverse Dimensions of the 'Digital Divide': Perspectives from New Zealand - presentation by Bronwyn Howell

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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.

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UPCOMING SEMINAR 2 March 2012: International Internet Roaming presented by Simona Fabrizi

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Slides are now available from the seminar held 2 Feb 2012 presented by Bert Sadowski, visiting ST Lee Fellow

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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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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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Latest research

Feb
2012

Diverse Dimensions of the 'Digital Divide': Perspectives from New Zealand

Author: Bronwyn Howell

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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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