As anyone tasked with developing their agency’s regulatory strategy knows only too well, the landscape of available ideas is crowded and confusing. This presentation discusses some of the approaches that will be most helpful in making, explaining and evaluating regulators' choices, setting their posture and...

The working life of regulators frequently involves varied and often contradictory pressures, yet we all aspire to be excellent at what we do. What makes for an excellent regulator?

This paper presents the results of research undertaken in the Productivity Commission’s Environment and Resource Economics Branch during 2005. It is part of a larger suite of water policy research conducted by the Commission, including modelling of regional economic impacts of changes in water trade...