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Determining Optimal Macroprudential Instruments

Winkler, Kay (2015)

Central banks and governments around the world are currently facing challenging economic and monetary issues from the aftermath of the 2007 credit crisis. Eight years after the start of the recession, the global economy ...
Electricity Market Operation: Transitioning from a Free Market to a Single Buyer structure: An econometric analysis of the Brazilian case using a Two-State Markov Switching Model

Daglish, Toby; de Braganca, Gabriel; Owen, Sally; Romano, Teresa (2015)

We examine electricity market reform in Brazil: from the 1990s till 2004 the largely hydro-powered market cleared using a market mechanism, and in March 2004 reformed to a single buyer structure. We model day-ahead returns ...
Commuting and Residential Decisions in the Greater Wellington Region

Daglish, Toby; de Roiste, Mairead; Sağlam, Yiğit; Law, Richard (2015)

This paper studies residential, commuting and car ownership decisions in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand. We establish an estimation methodology that is robust to endogeneity between house prices and residential ...
Consumer Governance in Electricity Markets

Daglish, Toby (2015)

This paper examines switching decisions by households in the MainPower distribution area of New Zealand. The paper measures the extent to which customers switched in response to information about directors’ bonuses, marketing ...
Translog Cost Function Estimation: Banking Efficiency

Daglish, Toby; Robertson, Oliver; Tripe, David; Weill, Laurent (2015)

This paper examines the selection of data source and econometric technique for studies of banking efficiency using translog cost functions. We examine the use of Seemingly Unrelated Regression estimation for a cost function, ...
Structural Separation and Technological Diffusion

Howell, Bronwyn (2014)

Vertical separation of upstream network operations from downstream retail activities, as the most extreme form of access regulation,has long been considered a legitimate regulatory remedy against use of market powerin ...
Potential Effects of New Zealand's Policy on Next Generation High-Speed Access Networks

Winkler, Kay (2014)

New Zealands strategy to deploy ultra-fast next generation access networks (NGA) on the basis of fibre to the home (FTTH) to the majority of the population by 2019 involves specific public private partnerships for dedicated ...
The Microeconomics of Television Markets

Hurren, Konrad (2014)

I consider the literature surrounding the television market. Two important issues in the literature are: the market's two-sided nature, and bundling of channels. I discuss how an asymmetric pricing structure arises in ...
An Exploration of School Quality, House Prices and Geographical Location in Wellington, New Zealand

Daglish, Toby; De Roiste, Mairead (2014)

ISCR and Victoria University of Wellington undertook a project with Sarah Crilly, a Higher Diploma of Data Science and Analytics student at the Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland in a project investigating school quality ...
Competition policy development in New Zealand

Evans, Lewis (2013)

Competition policy is typically intended to protect competition where workable competition is possible. Conversely, regulation can either preclude competition, or can act as a substitute for competition when workable ...
If Electricity Liberalisation Is Working, Then Why Do So Many People Hate It?', presented by Prof James Bushnell 7 August 2013

Bushnell, James (2013)

Attitudes towards the proper form of organisation and regulation of the electricity sector have shifted several times over the past two decades. These shifts include a wave of liberalisation that encompassed many regions ...
Telecommunications in New Zealand:Regulating for Infrastructure Competition Reality, 12 July 2013

Howell, Bronwyn; Haucap, Justus; Nicholls, Rob; Glass, Hayden; Abbott, Chris (2013)

In February, Communications minister Amy Adams brought forward the planned review of the regulatory arrangements for New Zealand's telecommunications sector. The move was prompted by emerging tensions between the Commerce ...
Water is valuable: the allocation of water and other resources in the New Zealand electricity market

Tam, Diana; Evans, Lewis (2013)

This monograph investigates the role of the electricity market in the allocation of water and other resources used as inputs into electricity generation. We base our observations on the outputs of an original electricity ...
The Proposed Forestry Commodities Levy: lets have balanced consideration' by Lew Evans

Evans, Lewis (2013)

A version of this Current Comment by Lew Evans also appeared in the Farmers Weekly newspaper February 2013
Broadband Regulation & Government Investment in Ultrafast Fibre Broadband Networks: Evidence from New Zealand

Howell, Bronwyn (2013)

Howell, Bronwyn recently attended the 2013 European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, held in Florence, Italy from 20-23 October.
Charities Regulation' presented by Dr Carolyn Cordery on 13 Feb 2013

Cordery, Carolyn (2013)

Internationally, there has been a steady increase in the number of countries instigating charity regulation. Public interest theory suggests that regulation increases organisational transparency, protects (or encourages) ...
Considering the Counterfactual in Predation Cases

Winkler, Kay (2013)

In order to distinguish predatory pricing from competition on the merits, the courts in the United States and in the European Union have established cost-based tests. In contrast, Australia and New Zealand make use of a ...
How to get from Avalon to Berhampore: commuting and car ownership decisions in Wellington, NZ' presented by Toby Daglish on 15 May 2013

Daglish, Toby (2013)

Commuting decisions have major implications for government departments, city and regional councils, car dealers, petrol stations, and household pocket books. We use the NZ Household Travel Survey to explore the decisions ...
Accessibility, commuting and the car ownership decision

Mairead De Roiste; Daglish, Toby; Yigit Saglam; Richard Law (2013)

Rising fuel prices, costly transport infrastructure, congestion, external environmental impacts and impending peak oil difficulties highlight the importance of understanding the economic decisions behind commuting patterns. ...
A Proposed Pathway Towards Future Reform of New Zealand’s De Minimis Threshold

Steel, William; Daglish, Toby; Marriott, Lisa; Gemmell, Norman; Howell, Bronwyn (2013)

Imports into New Zealand are tax-free if the duty and GST payable is less than $60. This has resulted in an effective value threshold of between $226 and $399, significantly higher than many of our trading partners. We ...