Policy Considerations for the New Zealand Natural Gas Industry

Stanford Levin and Alfred Duncan

No 19197, Working Paper Series from Victoria University of Wellington, The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation

Abstract: Professor Stanford Levin and Alfred Duncan undertake a study of the natural gas industry in New Zealand at a time when the two industry regulators are undertaking regulatory initiatives.The Commerce Commission is in the midst of setting their default price-quality regulatory framework that will take effect in July 2012. The Gas Industry Company the industry co-regulator has just recently issued a proposal to undertake a project to determine the current need for gas transmission investment and to develop a way for any needed investment to occur.The authors are hopeful that this study will prove useful to industry participants policymakers and also to the two industry regulators.

Keywords: regulation; natural gas; pipelines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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