Research Associates

Susan Corbett

Susan Corbett teaches marketing, contract, and e-commerce law to business students at Victoria University.  She also teaches intellectual property issues for business and culture to Honours students in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration.  Her research is focused on the interfaces of intellectual property laws with digital culture, the information economy, and the broader community.  Current projects include an analysis of cultural property laws relevant to digital archiving.  Prior to her academic career, Susan worked as a solicitor in London.  She has also been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand. 

Douglas Webb

Douglas Webb is an independent advisor on telecommunications regulation to governments, development agencies and carriers.  He was previously New Zealand's first Telecommunications Commissioner, a member of the Commerce Commission, a partner of the law firm of Minter Ellison Rudd Watts and a senior manager at the World Bank.  He holds a Master of Laws from Victoria University of Wellington.

Glenn Boyle

Glenn Boyle is the BNZ Chair of Finance at the University of Canterbury and an ISCR Distinguished Research Fellow. Between March 2004 and December 2008, he was Executive Director of the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation. Glenn's research interests include corporate finance, real options, financial incentives and executive compensation. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Texas in Austin, and an MA in Economics and BA Economics and History both from the University of Canterbury.

Mark Berry

Mark Berry is a barrister with Barristers.Comm and a Research Associate of ISCR, having formerly been a partner of Bell Gully Buddle Weir, a consultant for Chapman Tripp, and deputy chairman of the NZ Commerce Commission. Mark is co-author of Gault on Commercial Law, and has published on a range of competition law topics in US, Australian and New Zealand law journals.

Matt Burgess

Matt Burgess began his career with Telecom and subsequently worked for Charles River Associates in Wellington and California. He now lives in Wellington - where he developed and operates the mytradesman website - and is a Research Associate of ISCR. Matt has specialist interests in industrial organisation and microeconomics.

During 2006, he worked with Glenn Boyle on a project for ACC analysing the cost effectiveness of a falls prevention programme. He is currently Chief Executive of ipredict - a NZ-focused predictions market owned by ISCR and Victoria University of Wellington.

 

Eric Crampton

Eric Crampton is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Canterbury. His main research interests are in public economics and public choice theory. He intends to make use of iPredict data to answer questions about voter behaviour and preferences.

For more information on Eric, please visit his homepage.

Phillip Gumby

Phillip Gumby, is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Canterbury and a Research Associate of ISCR. His special interests are the economics of education, the economics of information and contracts, industrial organisation, and the economics of technological change.

With Alan Woodfield, he worked on an ISCR-funded project "Competition for students in a regulated school environment: the role of information."

Tim Hazeldine

Tim Hazeldine is Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland and a Research Associate of ISCR. Before returning to New Zealand in 1992, he was a Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and also served in the T. D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Bureau of Competition Policy in Ottawa.

During 2005-06, he worked on an ISCR-funded project "Pricing and Competition in Australasian Air Travel Markets."

Roger Stover

Roger Stover is Professor of Finance and the Iowa Bankers Association Fellow at Iowa State University where he teaches graduate courses on financial decision making for managers. He is the author of numerous articles focusing on the roles banks play in the financial markets, both in the U.S. and internationally. His current research focuses on governance issues in banks and topics involving the structure of syndicated lending. Prior to an academic career, he was with the First National Bank of Chicago.

Alan Woodfield

Alan Woodfield is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Canterbury and a Research Associate of ISCR. His main research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly imperfect information, law and economics, industrial organisation and strategic decision-making, and regulation.

With Philip Gumby, he worked on an ISCR-funded project "Competition for students in a regulated school environment: the role of information."