ISCR News Items
Current News
- 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
- 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