ISCR News Items
Current News
- Upcoming Seminar 2 March 2012: International Internet Roaming presented by Simona Fabrizi
- Brownyn Howell presented "The Antipodean Approach: Government-Funded Ultrafast Broadband Networks" at the Pacific Telecommunications Conference Jan 2012
- Seminar 2 Feb 2012: Experimental Users and Demand for Next Generation Access Networks: A European Perspective
- Bronwyn Howell appointed to the International Telecommunications Society Board
- Slides are now available from the electricity seminar held 15 November
- Professional development opportunity: Economics for Managers and Policy-makers, to be held 1 and 2 December
- Research Director appointed for ISCR
- Toby Daglish presented "The Valuation of Equity Futures on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1920-23" at Otago University on 4 November 2011.
- Slides are now available from the 3 November Seminar: An International Perspective on Australia's NBN, presented by Professor Catherine Middleton of Ryerson University, Toronto Canada
- Lew Evans presents Partial Sale of SOEs - Statism vs Participatory Democracy to LEANZ members in Auckland
- View Bronwyn Howell's presentation From Providers to PHOs: an institutional analysis of nonprofit primary health care governance in New Zealand
- View Bronwyn's presentation to ITS at the European Regional Conference, Budapest
- View Bronwyn Howell's presentations on telecommunications in Den Haag and Eindhoven
- View the presentations for: Selling the Family Tin? Rail Privatisation in New Zealand
- Jonathan Karp returns to New Zealand under the Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy for 2011.
- ACC Stocktake: Opportunities for Improvement - presentation by Neil Quigley to LEANZ gathering
- Slides from Richard Meade's seminar "Competition bad, less competition better?" are now available
- Bronwyn Howell presents at CommsDay Summit in Auckland
- Upcoming seminar 3 August: Competition Bad, Less Competition Better? How Industry Structure and Competition affect Investment and Welfare in Infrastructure Industries.
- Slides now available from seminar: Economic Incentives in the Hospice Care Setting: A Comparison of For-Profit and Nonprofit Providers
- Slides now available from: Reaching for the Regulatory Frontier, Wellington, 8 July
- International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific Conference, Taipei 26-28 June 2011 - presentation by Bronwyn Howell
- Best paper prize winner New Zealand Financial Colloquium
- Slides are now available for the seminar presented on 15 June: Payments, Participants and Network Supply
- Professional Development ( July): Economics for Managers & Policymakers
- Slides are now available from 25 May 2011 seminar: Smart Evaluation of Electric Utility Smart Grid Investment Proposals
- Slides are now available from the seminar entitled Megagovernance and the Role of cultural Norms in the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment: Trans-Tasman FDI Regimes
- Slides available from the 5th Annual Regulatory Evolution Summit
- Slides are now available from Seminar: "Financial Contracts, Carbon Banking and the Management of Carbon Credits in Small Scale Plantation Forests".
- Professional Development - Course: Understanding Economics for Network Industries
- New publication: The Impacts and Benefits of Structural Reforms in Transport, Energy and Telecommunications Sectors
- Seminar slides available - "Is There a Cooperative Advantage?"
- Honours for Lew Evans
- ISCR student, Gabriel Fiuza de Braganca, takes top prize in PhD Conference 2010
- Slides are now available from the seminar - Private Selection and Arbitration Neutrality
- Slides are now available for the seminar: The Tyranny of Distance Prevails
- Telecommunications seminar - The Tyranny of Distance Prevails - 8 December
- Telecommunications: Presentation to the OECD and African Development Bank by Bronwyn Howell
- Slide presentations and papers are now available from ASIA-PACIFIC ITS REGIONAL CONFERENCE
- Slides from Dave Heatley's seminar on land populism vs. propserity and Chris Nixon's presentation on navigating the economic, political and institutional icebergs presented on November 11, 2010
- Invitation to attend an upcoming Wellington seminar 11 November
- Latest statement issued by the ANZSFRC in September - Retail finance: a path forward for education, advice and disclosure.
- Climate and the NZ Electricity Spot Market. Presentation by Lew Evans to the Energy Roundtable, Wellington on 8 September 2010
- Slides now available from seminar - Vertically Integrated Electricity Generators – Villains, Victims or Heroes?
- International presentation by Gabriel Fiuza to WEAI 85th Annual Conference
- Current Comment 2010 No. 2, Ultra-fast Broadband Internet 2.0 added
- Lew Evans presented Infrastructure Investment and Uncertainty at the IPS/Motu workshop
- Slide presentation to LEANZ on 12 July 2010, Overseas Investment: Is New Zealand 'Open for Business' now available
- Seminar July 12: Bronwyn Howell and Dave Heatley present Overseas Investment: Is New Zealand 'Open For Business'?
- Bronwyn Howell presents at the 18th Biennial conference of the International Telecommunications Society
- Slides now available for seminar held 22 June - Living with Mortgage Break Fees
- TVNZ interview Dave Heatley on the Budget 2010 KiwiRail announcement
- Greg Sidak presents "Update on the U.S. Net Neutrality Experience"
- Bronwyn Howell and Dave Heatley present at the Internet New Zealand Ultrafast Broadband Workshop, 19 May 2010
- Slides are now available from the recent seminars held in Wellington and Auckland - "A Theoretical Analysis of Special Safeguards"
- Seminar - Auckland 11 May - "A Theoretical Analysis of Special Safeguards"
- Slides are now available for our March seminar: "Governments in the Telco business: prudential investment or pursuing non-economic purposes?"
- Current Comment - Will abolishing the Telecommunications Service Order compensation end universal service pricing in New Zealand?
- Bronwyn Howell presents at the Economics of Infrastructure in a Globalised World: Issues, Lessons and Future Challenges. Sydney, 19 March 2010
- 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
- Dr. Christopher Goemans: 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