Henry Ergas

University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility

Professor of Infrastructure Economics

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong, New South Wales 2522

Australia

Deloitte Access Economics

Senior Economic Adviser

9 Sydney Avenue

Barton

Canberra, Kingston 2600

Australia

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1.

Net Neutrality Regulation: The Economic Evidence

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2013
Jerry Brito, Martin E. Cave, Robert W. Crandall, Larry F. Darby, Everett Ehrlich, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Jerry Ellig, Henry Ergas, David J. Farber, Gerald R. Faulhaber, Robert W. Hahn, Alfred E. Kahn, Wayne A. Leighton, Robert E. Litan, Glen O. Robinson, Hal J. Singer, Vernon L. Smith, William E. Taylor, Timothy J. Tardiff, Leonard Waverman and Dennis Weisman
Independent, University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, Brookings Institution, The American Consumer Institute, ESC Company, NERA Economic Consulting, George Washington University - Regulatory Studies Center, University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, University of Oxford, Smith School, National Economic Research Associates Inc. (NERA) (Deceased), Francisco Marroquin University, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., University of Virginia School of Law, Economists Incorporated, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute, Marsh & McLennan Companies - Cambridge Office, Advanced Analytical Consulting Group, Inc., London Business School and Kansas State University - Department of Economics
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net neutrality, FCC, Internet, broadband, regulation

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The Social Losses from Inefficient Infrastructure Projects: Recent Australian Experience

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 11 Sep 2009
Henry Ergas and Alex R. W. Robson
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility and Griffith University - Griffith Business School, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
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Does Technology Policy Matter?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Technology policies, Innovation

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New Models of Foreclosure: Should Antitrust Authorities Be Concerned?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Jan 1998
Henry Ergas and Eric Kodjo Ralph
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Price Squeezes and Vertical Discrimination on Next Generation Access Networks

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2014
Henry Ergas, Emma Lanigan and Eric Kodjo Ralph
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, Concept Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Next generation access networks, Price squeezes, Vertical integration, Vertical discrimination, Significant market power, Imputation tests, Broadband, Telecommunications

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Mining Taxation: Some Economic Issues

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Mining Taxation: Some Economic Issues

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Nov 2010
Henry Ergas, Mark D. Harrison and Jonathan Pincus
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, SMART Facility, University of Wollongong and University of Adelaide - School of Economics
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Mining Taxation: Some Economic Issues

Economic Papers, vol.29, no.4, December 2010, pp.369-83
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2014
Henry Ergas, Mark D. Harrison and Jonathan Pincus
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, SMART Facility, University of Wollongong and University of Adelaide - School of Economics
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Why Do Some Countries Innovate More than Others?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Innovation, Technology, Research and Development (R&D)

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TSLRIC, TELRIC and Other Forms of Forward-Looking Cost Models in Telecommunications: A Curmudgeon's Guide

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Telecommunications, Forward-looking cost models, TSLRIC, TELRIC, Interconnection charging, Regulatory accounting

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The ACCC Merger Guidelines: A Review

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas, Eric Kodjo Ralph and Alex R. W. Robson
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Griffith University - Griffith Business School, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
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Mergers, Merger guidelines, Competition

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Telecommunications Access Pricing: The Australian Experience

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Jan 2008
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Telecommunications, Third party access, Utilities

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Asymmetric Termination Charges to Support Small Networks

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Feb 2009
Eric Kodjo Ralph, Claudio Boreggi and Henry Ergas
affiliation not provided to SSRN, RegEcon Consulting & Media and University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Asymmetric regulation, entry, industry policy, telecommunications, termination charges

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Price Squeezes and Imputation Tests on Next Generation Access Networks

Communications and Strategies, No. 78, pp. 97-85, 2010
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Apr 2011
Henry Ergas, Eric Kodjo Ralph and Emma Lanigan
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Concept Economics
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price squeeze, imputation tests, next generation access networks, vertical

13.

The Analytics of the Australian Private Health Insurance Rebate and the Medicare Levy Surcharge

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Nov 2011
Henry Ergas, Robson Alexander and Francesco Paolucci
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH-ANU) & Health Policy and Management (iBMG-EUR)
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Access, Property Rights and Welfare: An Examination of Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Third party access, Trade Practices, Competition, Property rights, Essential facilities doctrine, Market failure, Regulatory failure

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Regulatory Risk

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Sep 2011
Henry Ergas, Jeremy Hornby, Iain Little and John Small
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, Charles River Associates, Incorporated, Telstra and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Regualtory Risk

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Reflections on Expert Economic Evidence

Law Society Journal, Feb 2007
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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expert evidence, economic evidence

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Time Consistency in Regulatory Price Setting: An Australian Case Study

Review of Network Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 153-163, June 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Time consistency, Telecommunications regulation, Access regulation, Depreciation profile, TSLRIC

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Revenue Allocation under the MRRT: Economic Aspects

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Nov 2012
Henry Ergas and Alex R. W. Robson
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility and Griffith University - Griffith Business School, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
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mining, tax, rents, vertical integration

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More Guns Without Less Butter: Improving Australian Defence Efficiency

Agenda, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2011
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Dec 2011
Henry Ergas and Mark Thomson
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law
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defence, efficiency, expenditure

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Telecommunications Across the Tasman: A Comparison of Regulatory Approaches and Economic Outcomes in Australia and New Zealand

DEREGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES: CURRENT ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES, Megan Richardson, (ed), Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Telecommunications, Regulation

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Are Economic Consultants Worth Feeding?

The Review (a supplement to the Australian Financial Review), p. 3, January 30, 2009, Presented at the Australian Society of Economics, Canberra branch, on the 20th of November 2008
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 14 Jul 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Economists

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Error and Design: Economics in (and Some Economics of) the Australian Competition Tribunal

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Jan 2010
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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competition, Australia, tribunal, economics, regulation

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Why Johnny Can’t Regulate: The Case of Natural Monopoly

Agenda, Volume 20, Number 1, 2013
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Aug 2013
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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monopoly, regulation, regulators

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Modelling the Excess Burden of Royalties

University of Adelaide School of Economics, Research Paper No. 2012-03
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Nov 2012
Henry Ergas and Jonathan Pincus
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility and University of Adelaide - School of Economics
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Rebooting the Boom: Unfinished Business on the Supply Side

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 22 Aug 2013
Henry Ergas and Joe Owen
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility and University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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mining, boom, supply

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Telecommunications Issues in Market Definition

(1998) 6 Competition & Consumer Law Journal 1
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 May 2017
Deena Shiff, Henry Ergas and Mitchell Landrigan
Telstra Corporation Limited, University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility and University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
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Policy Forum: Designing a Carbon Price Policy: Using Market‐Based Mechanisms for Emission Abatement: Are the Assumptions Plausible?

Australian Economic Review, Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp. 86-95, 2012
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Mar 2012
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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New Policies Create a New Politics: Issues of Institutional Design in Climate Change Policy

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 2, pp. 143-164, April 2010
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 May 2010
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding: The Case for Hypothecation

Australian Economic Review, Vol. 46, Issue 3, pp. 338-344, 2013
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 03 Sep 2013
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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Funding and Providing Aged Care: Lessons from the Last Decade

Australian Economic Review, Vol. 45, Issue 3, pp. 362-367, 2012
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 30 Aug 2012
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility
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An Excess of Access: An Examination of Part IIIA of the Australian Trade Practices Act

Agenda Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2009
Posted: 23 Dec 2009
Henry Ergas
University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility

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trade practices act, Part IIIA, monopoly leveraging, transactions costs