Issue 4 March 2001
In this issue are the following articles:
Will the real effects of collusion on economic performance please stand up
An editorial by the ISCR Executive Director in 2001, Prof. Lewis Evans.
Re-educating Rita (and Murray and Debbie and Gary and Sandra and Linda and Graeme)
Valentine's Day is over for another year and still no card! Judy Kavanagh contemplates the start of the new academic year and reviews her options.
Author:
Judy Kavanagh
The costs of running scared of running late
Bronwyn Howell and Judy Kavanagh highlight the need for incentive-based cost-benefit analyses of legislative and regulatory intervention.
The economic performance of New Zealand Rail
In 1993, the New Zealand government sold its interest in rail to a consortium of private sector owners. Eight years on, Tranz Rail is itself proposing to sell sections of its operations to new owners. Among interested potential buyers are both central and local government interests. If they are successful, we will have gone full circle with the transfer of ownership of some operations back into public hands.
Author:
ISCR
Competition law and CER
An extract from a paper presented by Kerrin M Vautier to last year's conference on Competition Law at the turn of the century.
Author:
Kerrin M. Vautier
Information service provision should it be GST exempt?
Collecting GST from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will be increasingly expensive, complex and distortionary in a global market. Much larger national economic gains are available by exempting them, in line with the treatment of financial services, according to a new paper by ISCR's Bronwyn Howell.
Open to enterprise
Opening a business in Austria takes entrepreneurs at least 154 business days, costs US$11,612 and involves 12 separate procedures, according to an international study on the regulatory requirements for entry of new firms.
Author:
ISCR
