Are Electricity Prices Excessive?
The Electricity Price Review thinks our electricity prices are fair. Geoff Bertram suggests that their analysis is problematically limited in scope.
The Institute for Governance and Policy Studies (IGPS) aims to lift environmental, social and economic outcomes for all New Zealanders via good public policy.
Our goal is to contribute to improving New Zealanders’ lives. Our researchers engage with New Zealand’s policy-making process and work with people to make New Zealand a better place environmentally, socially and economically.
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Electricity prices unfair
Geoff Bertram looks past the Electricity Price Review and finds excessive profit-taking by electricity network companies.
PQ: Productivity issue
A special issue of Policy Quarterly focused on the complex question of how to lift New Zealand's productivity.
Trashing our rivers
Mike Joy on the avoidable yet worsening crisis facing New Zealand's freshwater systems and native fish.
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Longer view shows excessive profits for electricity distributors
IGPS associate Dr Geoff Bertram looks beyond the Electricity Price Review's five years of data to find evidence of excessive profit-taking by electricity network companies.
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![IGPS researcher Max Rashbrooke argues that ambitious reforms will be needed if we are to get the high-quality government that we deserve and need [Image: Matt Bialostocki]](https://www.victoria.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0012/1697763/varieties/ls_small.jpg "Portrait-by-Matt-Bialostocki-cropped.jpg")
How to build governments which work
Max Rashbrooke argues that the failures of the market-based reforms of the 1980s point to a need for more democracy, not more reliance on markets.
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New Zealand trashing its rivers at speed
Dr Mike Joy comments on New Zealand's unfortunate success as a world-leading despoiler of rivers.