Dant03

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Date registered: November 29, 2008
URL: http://www.tvhe.co.nz

Latest posts

  1. Licensing fees vs open source software — January 12, 2009
  2. A justification for taxing congestion: Multiple equilibria with a roading alternative? — January 9, 2009
  3. The proper way to levy taxation — December 15, 2008
  4. Water – is there a role for demand management at the household level? — February 14, 2008
  5. Protection rackets, cartels, and compulsory industry bodies — October 4, 2007

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Jan
12
2009

Licensing fees vs open source software

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January 12, 2009

I work (if you can call it that…) for an organisation that uses a suite of Microsoft applications. In addition to Windows XP it runs MS Office. For the ability to do this, a licensing fee, probably quite sizeable (I don’t know though) is paid to Microsoft. Now, it was pointed out to me that …

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Jan
09
2009

A justification for taxing congestion: Multiple equilibria with a roading alternative?

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January 9, 2009

Recent posts below (see “Taxing congestion: how I might justify it“) have sought reasons as to why toll-roads are so often touted as an economically efficient measure. For my part, I am quite sceptical that the are universally efficient, and struggle to find a compelling reason why they are even efficient most of the time. …

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Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/01/09/a-justification-for-taxing-congestionmultiple-equilibria-with-a-roading-alternative/

Dec
15
2008

The proper way to levy taxation

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December 15, 2008

The full set of briefings to incoming ministers (BIMs) following the recent election are now helpfully available on a single page, and between them cover a host of quite interesting, practical, and in some cases timely economic questions. One quite meaty suggestion that I noticed in Treasury’s BIM related to taxation, but it was given …

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Feb
14
2008

Water – is there a role for demand management at the household level?

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February 14, 2008

Lately, water shortages, and in particular rural droughts, have been in the news. While the farmers in many regions certainly are suffering, and there are definitely enough meaty economic issues around farmers’ current water allocations and associated issues, I want to concentrate on economic issues around water use by (mainly urban) households, and what role …

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Oct
04
2007

Protection rackets, cartels, and compulsory industry bodies

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October 4, 2007

So, the Real Estate Industry of New Zealand has censured a member for advertising it’s services by citing the general level of service in the industry, which it claims has customers paying “too much” for not good enough service. Sounds like a competitive claim to me. But not to the Real Estate Institute of New …

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Sep
10
2007

Is nuclear power generation the way for New Zealand?

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September 10, 2007

Over the weekend, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said that countries who supported reducing GHG emissions must support nuclear energy. Of course the one does not presuppose the other (non-sequitur), and New Zealand politicians came back saying that it was not for New Zealand. In reaction, I note a number of ‘straw-polls’ on websites such …

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