Neil Quigley

Neil Quigley
Address: Victoria University PO Box 600
Wellington
Education:

PhD, Toronto, 1986

MA (First Class Honours) Canterbury, 1981

BA, Canterbury, 1979

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Research Interests

Agent Renumeration Strategies

Prduct Design Issues in Insurance Market

Bank Mergers

Competition Policy

Governance and Regulation in Financial Markets

 

Selected publications

Academic Journal
Nov
1995
"Stability Without Deposit Insurance: Canadian Banking 1890-1966", Journal of Money Credit and Banking 1995. 27(4), 1137-1158 (with J.L. Carr, Frank Mathewson)

Oct
1995
"Shareholder Liability Regimes, Principal-Agent Relationships and Banking Industry Performance", Journal of Law and Economics 1995. 38(2), 497-520 (with Lewis Evans)

Feb
1990
"Discrimination in Bank Lending Policies: A Test Using Data from the Bank of Nova Scotia", Canadian Journal of Economics 1990. , 210-225 (with Lewis Evans)

Other
Sep
2006
"The Performance Based Research Fund and the Benefits of Competition Between Universities", Evaluating the Performance-Based Research Fund: Framing the Debate (Institute of Policy Studies) , Chapter 9 (with Lewis Evans)

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In this chapter, we set the competition promoted by the PBRF in context by considering the costs and benefits of competition in the tertiary sector.

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Jul
2005
"Agency Contracts with Long-Term Customer Relationships", Journal of Labor Economics 2005. 23(3), 589-608 (with Ignatius Hortsmann, Frank Mathewson)

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This paper provides a model that shows that contracts with these features arise in equilibrium in environments having: i) up-front selling costs that are re-couped from on-going sales, ii) heterogeneous customers, iii) limited sales agent access to capital markets and iv) imperfect commitment by customers and agents to long-term contracts.

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Mar
2003
"Accident Compensation: The Role of Incentive Consumer Choice and Competition", Victoria University Law Review 2003. 34(3), 423-432 (with Lewis Evans)

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This paper reviews three of the economic issues raised by the structure of our accident compensation scheme: the role of incentives, the relationship with the broader insurance market and the costs of government monopoly provision.

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Sep
2002
"The Interaction Between Contract and Competition Law", 2002. (with Lewis Evans)

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This paper provides some economic perspectives on the interaction between contract law and competition (antitrust) law.

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Jan
2000
"The Efficiency of Contractual Arrangements in Private Agricultural Product Markets", Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 2000. 31, 813-846 (with Haleigh Boyd, Lewis Evans)

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In this paper we use examples of contracts between producers and processors in the forestry, wine and processed vegetable markets to consider the extent to which contracts may provide efficient vehicles for the alignment of interests between producers and processors in agricultural markets.

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Jun
1999
"Contracting, Incentives for Breach, and the Impact of Competition", World Competition 2000. 23(2) (with Lewis Evans)

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In this paper we provide an economic perspective on the application of competition law to contracts.

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Working Papers

Sep
2008
"Estimating Implied Valuation Parameters: Extension and Application to Ground Lease Rentals", 2008. (with Glenn Boyle, Graeme Guthrie)

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Sep
2006
"The Performance Based Research Fund and the Benefits of Competition Between Universities", Evaluating the Performance-Based Research Fund: Framing the Debate (Institute of Policy Studies) , Chapter 9 (with Lewis Evans)

Filetype IconDownload (PDF) 209kB

In this chapter, we set the competition promoted by the PBRF in context by considering the costs and benefits of competition in the tertiary sector.

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Jul
2005
"Agency Contracts with Long-Term Customer Relationships", Journal of Labor Economics 2005. 23(3), 589-608 (with Ignatius Hortsmann, Frank Mathewson)

Filetype IconDownload (PDF) 2.7MB

This paper provides a model that shows that contracts with these features arise in equilibrium in environments having: i) up-front selling costs that are re-couped from on-going sales, ii) heterogeneous customers, iii) limited sales agent access to capital markets and iv) imperfect commitment by customers and agents to long-term contracts.

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Mar
2003
"Accident Compensation: The Role of Incentive Consumer Choice and Competition", Victoria University Law Review 2003. 34(3), 423-432 (with Lewis Evans)

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This paper reviews three of the economic issues raised by the structure of our accident compensation scheme: the role of incentives, the relationship with the broader insurance market and the costs of government monopoly provision.

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Jan
2000
"The Efficiency of Contractual Arrangements in Private Agricultural Product Markets", Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 2000. 31, 813-846 (with Haleigh Boyd, Lewis Evans)

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In this paper we use examples of contracts between producers and processors in the forestry, wine and processed vegetable markets to consider the extent to which contracts may provide efficient vehicles for the alignment of interests between producers and processors in agricultural markets.

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Jun
1999
"Contracting, Incentives for Breach, and the Impact of Competition", World Competition 2000. 23(2) (with Lewis Evans)

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In this paper we provide an economic perspective on the application of competition law to contracts.

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Jun
1998
"Money and Medicines: An Economic Analysis of Reference Pricing and Related Public-sector Cost-containment Systems for Pharmaceuticals with Special Reference to New Zealand, by Alan Woodfield, John Fountain and Pim Borren (a review)", NZ Economic Papers 1998. 32, 83-93 (with Lewis Evans)

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