LEANZ - Past Seminars 09

Past Seminars 09 - 10

2010 Seminars

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic	Host
February	Wellington	Peter Holle, Frontier Center for Public Policy, Canada	What New Zealand Can Learn From Local Government Amalgamation in Canada	Buddle Findlay
February	Auckland	Peter Holle, Frontier Center for Public Policy, Canada	"Supercity" - What New Zealand might learn from Local Government Amalgamation in Canada	Bell Gully
March	Wellington	Lewis Evans, Victoria University of Wellington	Efficiency of Collusion and Criminal Sanctions in New Zealand	Bell Gully
March	Wellington	Geoff McLay, Victoria University of Wellington	Tort, theory, anti-theory and ACC	Chapman Tripp
March	Auckland	Mike Burrell, CEO Aquaculture New Zealand	Governing the commons: the case of aquaculture	Kensington Swan
April	Auckland	Toby Stevenson, LECG	Electricity Industry Governance and Reform	MED Business Centre
May	Wellington	Michael Littlewood, University of Auckland	Tax Reforms in Hong Kong	Kensington Swan
May	Auckland	A debate: Dr John Small, Covec vs Professor Lew Evans, NERA and Victoria University	Whether New Zealand would be wise to criminalise cartel behaviour	Wilson Harle
June	Wellington	Ralph Chivers, Telecom	Governments and telecommunications – a match made in heaven or shot-gun wedding?	DLA Phillips Fox
June	Auckland	LEANZ Conference and LEANZ AGM	Keynote Speaker: Wolfgang Kasper	University of Auckland
July	Wellington	Brownwyn Howell and Dave Heatley, ISCR	Overseas Investment Act: Is New Zealand 'Open For business'?	Russell McVeagh
July	Auckland	Dr Michael Littlewood, University of Auckland Law School	Tax Reform and the Instructive Case of Hong Kong	Ernst & Young
August	Wellington	Prof. Max Stearns, University of Maryland	Social Choice Theory and direct democracy	Government Buildings Lecture Theatre
August	Auckland	Prof. Max Stearns, University of Maryland	Public Choice Theory - (Anti) Democracy	Russell McVeagh
September	Wellington	Michael Littlewood	Compulsory savings	Simpson Grierson
September	Auckland (held jointly with University of Auckland Business School)	Professor Geoffrey Wood, University of Auckland Business School	How economists mislead regulators	University of Auckland Business School
October	Wellington	Prof. Neil Quigley, Victoria University	ACC reforms	TBC
October	Auckland	Rick Boven, New Zealand Institute	Economic prosperity: ensuring capital availability for expanding international businesses	TBC
November	Auckland and Wellington	Greg Houston, NERA	Shareholder Class Actions: A Rising Trend in Australia: On Its Way Here?	Simpson Grierson (Auckland) and Luke, Cunningham and Clere (Wellington)
November	Wellington	Justice Forrie Miller	Reforming Civil Litigation	Minter Ellison

2009 Seminars

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic	Host
February	Wellington	Frederic Sautet, George Mason University	Obama's bail-out: the long term impact	Bell Gully
March	Auckland	Brendan O'Donovan	Perspectives on the credit crunch and how the state of finance markets	Chapman Tripp
March	Wellington	Matt Burgess, iPredict	Seeing the future: Prediction markets and the wisdom of crowds	Chapman Tripp
April	Auckland	Dr Eric Crampton, Canterbury University Economics Department	Elections and Political Ignorance: the myth of the rational voter	Ernst & Young
April	Wellington	Dr Bryce Wilkinson, Capital Economics	A primer on Property Rights, Takings and Compensation	Kensington Swan
June	Auckland	Ralph Townsend, Chief Economist, Ministry of Fisheries	New Zealand’s Quota Management System, Successes, Challenges and Good Governance for our Fisheries Resournce	Russell McVeagh
June	Wellington	Brendan O'Donovan, Westpac	Perspectives on the 'credit crunch' and the state of finance markets	Chapman Tripp
July	Wellington	LEANZ held a one day conference alongside the New Zealand Association of Economists	Speakers included: Hon Rodney Hide, Alan Woodfield, Tanira Kingi and Susy Frankel	James Cook Grand Chancellor Hotel
August	Auckland	Alex Tan, Director, PwC forensics services and Gary Hughes, Wilson Harle	The Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Bill – the law and economics of financial crime	Pricewaterhouse Coopers
August	Wellington	Kesten Green, Monash University and Decisions Research Ltd	Public policy lessons from history: Using structured analogies to predict the effects of the manmade global warming movement	Russell McVeagh
September	Wellington	Peter Fraser, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry	No Crying over Regulated Milk? Competition policy in the Dairy Industry and Auctioning Raw Milk	Simpson Grierson
September	Auckland	Professor David Mayes, University of Auckland	Smarter not tougher regulation for the financial system	Mayne Wetherell
October	Wellington	Dr George Barker, Director of the Centre for Law & Economics, Australian National University	Intellectual Property 2.0: The Role of Intellectual Property in the New Digital Economy	Ernst & Young
November	Wellington	Dr Veronica Jacobsen	Costs, Benefits and Rationality: Economics and Criminal Justice Policy	Luke, Cunningham & Clere
November	Auckland	Dr Bryce Wilkinson	How to improve government regulation in the future - the work of the Regulatory Reponsiblity Taskforce	Wilson Harle
December	Auckland	Professor Glen Boyle	The role of securitisation in the great credit crunch	BNZ Capital Partners