Archived publication for 2002 in Occasional Paper
Recent publications
Gas in the Parer Review
The Parer report was fundamentally about the electricity market. Gas and to an even greater extent environment and regional issues were tacked on.
Power to the People: Privatisation and Deregulation of the Electricity Industry in Australia
Private ownership uses the same insights that Chadwick discovered two centuries ago. It is based on incentives and, harnessed with competition to meet market needs, is the most powerful means of promoting efficiency and high living standards.
Generator Market Power and Bidding Rules in Wholesale Markets
The electricity and gas markets are fundamentally commodity markets. But they differ from other commodity markets in two major respects.
Expectations for a Competitive Retail Market in Tasmania
A Speech to the Utilicon TasPower Conference
Checking for Market Power in Electricity: The Perils of Cost Price Margins
Concerns have been expressed around the world that the newly opened electricity markets have failed to be sufficiently competitive.
Address to the Conference Competition & Regulation in the Energy Industry
Opening up electricity and gas markets to competition forces retailers to seek better ways of meeting the needs of customers more cheaply and ensures that cross subsidies are made known.
Impacts of Kyoto on Australian Power Costs
In 1973/4 when the first energy crisis was underway, there were many risks perceived to result from the quadrupling of oil prices that OPEC engineered. Originally delivered as an Address to APEC Conference 'Kyoto---The Impact on Australia',13...