Geoff Bertram

Publications

Publications by topic area

General

  • Geoff Bertram ‘Fix Bradford’s mistakes’ letter to Dominion Post 17 February 2023. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, The New Zealand electricity market and climate change, slides for lecture to Kapiti Coast WEA, 27 August 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, ‘Wealth, money, power and class in Aotearoa/New Zealand’, (review of Max Rashbrooke Too much money) Counterfutures 13, 2022, 150-164. (Two typos in footnote 2 of the published version have been corrected here.) [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram “Reflections on Not in Narrow Seas: the economic history of Aotearoa/New Zealand” Journal of New Zealand Studies NS34 (2022), 94-98. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, The near-collapse and pending recovery of regulatory governance in New Zealand. Paper presented to workshop on “Regulatory governance: models and dynamics”, Florence, 26-29 June 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram “Neoliberal slogan”, letter to Dominion Post newspaper 28 May 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, Submission to MBIE on the proposed Social Insurance Scheme, April 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Shrinking the state 2.0: commentary on Ken Warren’s ‘A new model of collaboration’ and related IGPS working paper. Policy Quarterly 18(1):32-36, February 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Raise taxes, don’t lower them. Dominion Post newspaper 8 March 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Better late than never on gouging. Dominion Post newspaper, 26 August 2021. Letter about electricity industry pricing and profiteering. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Regulatory capture in product markets and the power of business interests. Policy Quarterly, 17(2):35-44, May 2021. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Problems with the ‘reformed’ New Zealand electricity market. IAEE Energy Forum, (Second Quarter), April 2021. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission to the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee on the Commerce Amendment Bill, April 2021. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Our Electricity System, the Emissions Trading Scheme and the Climate Change Commission Proposals. Webinar for ‘Our Climate Declaration’, 17 February 2021. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Comment at the launch of ‘Improving Buildings, Cutting Carbon’. Presented at University of Otafgo Medical School Summer School, 16 February 2021. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Breaking out of the ‘iron cage’: Removing statutory barriers to transformational change. Presented to University of Otago Medical School symposium ‘COVID-19 Reset: Transformational opportunities for a healthier, fairer, more sustainable Aotearoa ‘, 3 February 2021. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill (No 3). Submitted, 26 October 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. We need a wealth tax. Dominion Post newspaper, 15 October 2020. Letter to editor. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Digital divide corroding society. Dominion Post newspaper, September 14 2020. Letter to editor. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Breaking out of neoliberalism’s iron cage. Newsroom, September 8 2020. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/breaking-out-of-neoliberalisms-iron-cage . A pdf of the text is to the right. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Money creation policy . Dominion Post newspaper, September 3 2020. Letter to the editor. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. What’s wrong with the New Zealand electricity market? Zoom presentation to Engineers for Social Responsibility, August 19 2020. Video of the presentation is online at https://youtu.be/bX0j1RvsBYk . Note that at 23 minutes 13 seconds I mis-spoke “prices” when I meant “costs”. Slides are downloadable at the right. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Why the Commerce Act 1986 is Unfit for Purpose. Policy Quarterly, 16(3):80-87, August 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Response to the Commerce Commission’s invitation to comment on Aurora Energy’s proposed new Customised Price-Quantity Path. Submission to Commerce Commission, August 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. A note on Grant Roberston’s letter of 10 August 2020 to Alan Mark and Dugald McTavish. Reproduces and comments on a letter from the Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson, in response to a letter in May 2020 from Wise Response, regarding money creation to finance the fiscal deficit, August 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Exchange of letters in the Dominion Post newspaper, 25-28 August. August 2020. About the “iron cage of neoliberal legislation” that constrains policy in NZ. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Power belongs to the powerful: counting the many ways New Zealand’s electricity reforms have been misguided. Lecture to Lower Hutt University of the 3rd Age, 13 July 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Every degree of openness at the border adds risk . Newsroom, July 7 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Should we revive the Ministry of Works? Chapter for Public Service Association “Progressive Thinking” book, July 2020. This was the background paper for a webinar on the New Zealand Public Service on July 8 2020, online at https://www.psa.org.nz/media/resources/progressivethinking/. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Presentation to “Alternative Aoteroa” conference, Wellington . July 2020. Video is at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BjyukoQmmHXWDkxg_QCZTmrmeZllzTPQ/view . Transcript is attached as pdf. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Is the Commerce Act 1986 fit for purpose? A blueprint for a new Commerce Act. IGPS Working Paper 20/02, June 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Future of the New Zealand State Sector. Newsroom “Ideasroom”, May 13 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. How to pay for COVID-19. Two-hour Fabians Zoom webinar, May 2020. Weblink for the Zoom session is https://youtu.be/TQ24nnwb_8I . The powerpoint slides are attached here. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Where to get the money? Just create it. New Zealand Herald, April 13 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. COVID-19 response: time to power up the helicopters. BERL Economic Insights, April 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Fiddling as consumers are burned. Dominion Post newspaper, October 8 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Slicing the Pie? Slides for talk at “Tax on Tuesdays” seminar, October 8 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity prices, profits and productivity. Slides for seminar at Otago University Medical School, October 4 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity prices and profits. Lecture at Victoria University, 26 June 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. ‘Wellbeing Budget’ skewed by its fiscal focus. New Zealand Herald, 15 May 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Intersectoral balance and the fiscal stance. Presentation to the symposium “Wellbeing, budget responsibility rules, and the Public Finance Act”, 15 April 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. A strange view of fair power pricing. Dominion Post newspaper, 20 March 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The power and the profit. Dominion Post newspaper, page 15, 2 October 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. A Public Business, Not a Service. Dominion Post newspaper, September 13 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The 2018 Budget: Politics and Economics. AUT Policy Observatory Briefing Papers, Published online at http://briefingpapers.co.nz/the-2018-budget-politics-economics/, 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Chapple. Getting consumer rights out from under the rug. Newsroom Ideasroom, December 2017. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram Barry Coates, Rod Oram and Tim Hazledine. The economics of the TPPA. New Zealand Law Foundation, January 2016. online at https://tpplegal.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/tpp-economics.pdf. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Neoliberalism and Energy Poverty: Why corporatisation, deregulation and privatisation doubled the cost of electricity for New Zealand households. Lecture at Victoria University of Wellington, October 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Garnaut versus Piketty: inequality in the coming century. Policy Quarterly, 11(2):23-25, May 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. What inequality is doing to Aoteraroa and how we can move to a more egalitarian society that embraces social justice. Presentation to Community Law Centres Association, November 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century: a New Zealand perspective. Presentation to IGPS seminar, September 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Piketty for dummies. June 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Asset values, rents, and the single buyer proposal for the New Zealand electricity sector. Paper for seminar at Auckland University Economics Department, April 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. Economic gains and costs from the TPP. Sustainability Council of New Zealand monograph, February 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. History of power charges pure fiction. New Zealand Herald, January 30 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. “Is there a ‘regulatory compact’ regarding gentailer asset values and revenues? Is so, what does it say?” . Presentation to IGPS symposium on proposals to restructure the electricity market, July 2013. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. “Capitalism, wages and inheritance”. Presentation to IGPS symposium ‘Increasing Inequality: Causes, Consequences and Responses”, July 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Weak regulation, rising margins, and asset revaluations: New Zealand’s failing experiment in elecricity reform. in Evolution of global electricity markets: new paradigms, new challenges, new approaches, edited by F.P. Sioshansi, Amsterdam: Elsever Academic Press, pp.645-677, July 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Asset revaluations, price-gouging, and barriers to entry: the state of play in electricity sector non-regulation . Seminar at Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, May 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram with Simon Terry. Green Border Control: Issues at the Environment/Economy Border. Paper prepared for Royal Forest and Bird Society, May 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Green Border Control: Summary Overview of the paper . Prepared for Royal Forest and Bird Society, May 2013. This is a summary of key points from the full report “Green Border Control: Issues at the Environment/Economy Border”. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Tighter Rein Urged on Asset Revaluations. Dominion Post, page A9, April 29 2013. The published version of this article is accessible at http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/8607601/Tighter-rein-urged-on-asset-revaluations. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Tighter rein urged on asset revaluations. Dominion Post, page A9, April 29 2013. The attached file is a facsimile of the article as it appeared. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Geoff Bertram proposes NZ regulate electricity pricing so that only indexed historic costs can be used to set prices as is done in England. Interest.co.nz, April 29 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Asset values and regulation. Presentation to Fabian Society, 16 April 2013, April 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The New Zealand Electricity System: link to video. On web, February 2013. Video interview with Paul Brennan 2 February 2012. Web link: http://www.ziln.co.nz/video/6031. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Weak regulation, rising margins, and asset revaluations: New Zealand’s failing experiment in electricity reform. Draft chapter for forthcoming book “Evolution of Global Electricity Markets: New paradigms, new challenges, new approaches” edited by F.P. Sioshansi, Elsevier, forthcoming 2013. This draft is as at the beginning of 2013., 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Light handed regulation of the energy sectors. Presented in Fabian Society series on light-handed regulation in New Zealand, November 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and David Tripe. Covered bonds and bank failure management in New Zealand. Policy Quarterly, 8(4):38-43, November 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Transcript of presentation to WEA/DEUN mini-conference on energy affordability, 7 November 2012, November 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Covered Bonds) Amendment Bill. July 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity prices, asset values, regulation, and renewables. Slides for Sustainable Energy Forum presentation, July 2012. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Statement to Select Committee on covered bonds. Notes for my appearance before the Select Committee on Finance and Expenditure, 25 July 2012, July 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Heresies and Dogmas in Economics. All Heretics Day lecture delivered in Christchurch, April 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission to Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on the Mixed Ownership Bill. The Bill provides for part-privatisation of state-owned assets in New Zealand, April 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Paths not taken in electricity restructuring: alternatives to the asset sales programme. Institute of Policy Studies seminar, 13 April 2012, April 2012. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Another approach to state asset sales programme. DominionPost, March 31 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Is economics still a branch of moral philosophy? . Lecture to Sea of Faith conference, Christchurch, October 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Sovereignty and material welfare in small island jurisdictions. Slides for seminar presented at the Stout Research Centre, Vctoria University, 3 August 2011, August 2011. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Pacific Islands development in long-run perspective. Slides for presentation to Institute of Policy Studies symposium February 2011, February 2011. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Assessing the Structure of Small Welfare States. Number 4 in Social Policies in Small States. Commonwealth Secretariat and UNRISD, 2011.
  • Geoff Bertram. Deregulatory Irresponsibility: the Unintended Consequences of Failure to Regulate. Slides for seminar at Institute of Policy Studies, February 2010. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. How not to design an emissions trading scheme. Slides for seominar at Institute of Policy Studies, November 2009. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Middle Class Capture: a Brief Survey. In The April Report – Future Directions: Associated Papers, volume III Part 2, pages 107-170. Royal Commission on Social Policy, 1988. Also published as Victoria University of Wellington Department of Economics Discussion Paper No 51, April 1988. This is the electronic text file, not a facsimile of the published version. [ .pdf ]

Economic Theory

  • Geoff Bertram. Garnaut versus Piketty: Inequality in the coming century. Policy Quarterly, 11(2), May 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Inequality in economic theory: has Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century” changed anything? Paper presented at IGPS symposium “Inequality: Causes and Consequences”, Victoria University of Wellington 109 June 2014, June 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Piketty for dummies. June 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Is economics still a branch of moral philosophy? Presentation to NZ Association of Economists conference, June 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Peter Chang and Geoff Bertram. Escape from a Poverty Trap in an AK Growth Model. Paper revised for, but not accepted by, ‘Economics Letters’ in 2008. Submission elsewhere is intended., 2008. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Peter Chang. The importance of resource fungibility in the AK model of economic growth, and implications for the theory of development aid. Paper presented to Australia and New Zealand Economics Workshop, 2006. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Peter Chang. Development Aid and Multiple Steady-State Equilibria in a Neoclassical Growth Model. This paper was presented at the New Zealand Association of Economists Conference June 2005 and subsequently rejected by a couple of leading journals. Submission to some other journals is planned., 2005. [ .pdf ]

Political Economy of Small Islands

  • Geoff Bertram. The Chatham Islands (New Zealand): Economic forces and governance. International Small Islands Studies Association, June 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Why does the Cook Islands still need overseas aid? Journal of Pacific History, 53(1):44-63, 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Comparing models of island economic development, chapter in The 21st Century Maritime Sillk Road Islands Economic Cooperation Forum Annual Report on Global Islands 2017, pages 55-82. University of Prince Edward Island Island Studies Press, 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Bernard Poirine. The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies, chapter Economics and development, pages 202-246. Routledge, 2018. Proof version. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Conceptualizing and Evaluating Models of Island Economies. Paper presented to International Conference on Island Economies, Hainan, November 2017. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Trade, regionalism and economic sustainability: how to pay for import needs. Paper for LARJE UNC conference “Quelle économie pour la Nouvelle-Calédonie après 2018?”, Noumea, September 2017. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Why does the Cook Islands still need overseas aid? Seminar presentation at School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, August 2017. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Does the Cook Islands still need overseas aid? Lecture at University of the South Pacific, Rarotonga, May 2017. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertam. Implications of the Cook Islands’ Graduation from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Eligibility. Technical report, Report for MFAT and Cook Islands Government, December 2016. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Sovereignty and material welfare in small island jurisdictions, chapter in A region in transition: politics and power in the Pacific Islands, pages 391-435. Saarbrucken University Press, 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Is independence good or bad for small island economies? A long-run analysis. Region et Developpement, (42):31-54, 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Economic consequences of decolonisation in small island economies. Paper presented at the conference “Tourism specialization and vulnerability: evidence and challenges for sustainable development in small island territories” Reunion Island 5 December 2014., December 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. A response to McElroy and Lucas. Island Studies Journal, 9(2):377-382, 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Economic links between New Zealand and the Pacific in the twentieth century, chapter in Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the People of the Pacific, pages 233-257 and 389-390. Te Papa Press, 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Sovereignty and material welfare in small island jurisdictions. Seminar presented at Stout Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, August 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Pacific Islands Development in Long-run Perspective. Slides for Institute of Policy Studies conference “Resilience in the Pacific: Addressing the Critical Issues”, February 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, chapter Economy, pages 959-967. Hawai’i University Press, 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Viability, Aid, Migration and Remittances in the Pacific: Some Thoughts. Paper prepared for World Bank Sydney office, April 2010. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. New Zealand in the Pacific. draft for Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 2010. [ .pdf ]
  • Godfrey Baldacchino and Geoffrey Bertram. The Beak of the Finch: Insights into the Economic Development of Small Economies . The Round Table, 98(401):141-160, April 2009. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The Welfare State in Microstates and Small States. UNRISD Workshop on Social Policies in Small States, October 2007. [ .pdf ]
  • Godfrey Baldacchino and Geoff Bertram. Strategic flexibility and economic resilience in small island jurisdictions. In International Conference on Small States and Economic Resilience. Commonwealth Secretariat and Universioty of Malta, University of Malta, April 2007. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Reappraising the Legacy of Colonialism: A response to Feyrer and Sacerdote. Island Studies Journal, 2(2):239-254, 2007. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Bernard Poirine. Island Political Economy. In Godfrey Baldacchino, editor, A World of Islands, chapter 10, pages 325-377. Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 2007. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Introduction: The MiRAB Economy in the Twenty-First Century. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 47(1):1-12, April 2006. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Remittances, Microfinance and Development: Building the Links Volume 1: A Global View, chapter 10 Bibliography on Migration and Remittances, pages 92-123. Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, 2006. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. On the Convergence of Small Island Economies with their Metropolitan Patrons. World Development, 32(2):343-365, February 2004. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Ozer Karagedikli. Are Pacific Economies Converging or Diverging? In Jacque Poot, editor, On the Edge of the Global Economy. Edward Elgar, 2004.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. The Pacific Islands: Economy and Society, chapter 28 Economy, pages 337-352. Bess Press, Hawaii, 1999. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. The MIRAB Model. In B.V. Lal and Kate Fortune, editors, Encyclopedia of the Pacific Islands. University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Sustainability, Aid, and Material Welfare in Small Pacific Island Economies, 1900-1990. World Development, 21(2):247-258, 1993. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Decolonisation and Nationhood in Small South Pacific Societies. In Anthony Hooper, Steve Britton, Ron Crocombe, Judith Hunstman, and Cluny Macpherson, editors, Class and Culture in the South Pacific, pages 16-31. Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Auckland, and Institute of Pacific Studies, Suva, 1987. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. ‘Sustainable Development’ in Pacific Micro-Economies. World Development, 14(7):809-822, July 1986. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Ray Watters. The MIRAB Process: Earlier Analysis in Context. Pacific Viewpoint, 27(1):47-59, April 1986. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Ray Watters. The MIRAB Economy in South Pacific Microstates. Pacific Viewpoint, 26(3):497-519, September 1985. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Ray F. Watters. New Zealand and its Small Island Neighbours: A Review of New Zealand Policy Toward the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Kiribati and Tuvalu. Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1984. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Ray F. Watters. New Zealand and its Small Island Neighbours: A Review of New Zealand Policy Toward the Cook islands, Niue, Tokelau, Kiribati and Tuvalu. Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1984. [ ,pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Economic Characteristics. In A Report on the Results of the Census of the Population of Tuvalu 1979, chapter 9. Government of Tuvalu, Funafuti, 1980.

The New Zealand electricity industry

  • Geoff Bertram, Electricity and climate change : two intertwined policy problems, slides for Takaka U3A 9 December 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, The New Zealand electricity market and climate change, slides for lecture to Kapiti Coast WEA, 27 August 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Better late than never on gouging. Dominion Post newspaper, 26 August 2021. Letter about electricity industry pricing and profiteering. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Problems with the ‘reformed’ New Zealand electricity market. IAEE Energy Forum, (Second Quarter), April 2021. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. What’s wrong with the New Zealand electricity market? Zoom presentation to Engineers for Social Responsibility, August 19 2020. Video of the presentation is online at https://youtu.be/bX0j1RvsBYk . Note that at 23 minutes 13 seconds I mis-spoke “prices” when I meant “costs”. Slides are downloadable at the right. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Response to the Commerce Commission’s invitation to comment on Aurora Energy’s proposed new Customised Price-Quantity Path. Submission to Commerce Commission, August 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Power belongs to the powerful: counting the many ways New Zealand’s electricity reforms have been misguided. Lecture to Lower Hutt University of the 3rd Age, 13 July 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Fiddling as consumers are burned. Dominion Post newspaper, October 8 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity prices, profits and productivity. Slides for seminar at Otago University Medical School, October 4 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity prices and profits. Lecture at Victoria University, 26 June 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity prices and profits. Lecture at Victoria University, 26 June 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. A strange view of fair power pricing. Dominion Post newspaper, 20 March 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission on Default Price-quality Paths for electricity distribution businesses from 1 April 2020: Issues Paper published 15 November 2018. Submitted to NZ Commerce Commission, December 2018. Online at https://comcom.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/112013/Geoff-Bertram-Submission-on-EDB-DPP-reset-issues-paper-19-December-2018.pdf. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The power and the profit – it’s all in the accounts. Dominion Post newspaper, page 15, 2 October 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Second submission in response to the first report of the Electricity Price Review Panel: Gentailers’ profits. Submitted to Electricity Price Review, October 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission in response to first report of the review panel: distributors’ profits. Submission to Electricity Price Review, September 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. A protection-racket line straight out of The Godfather. Dominion Post, page A7, April 4 2018. The file includes subsequent debate in the same newspaper. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. New Zealand’s zombie ‘regulators’ have struck again. Dominion Post, November 10 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Neoliberalism and energy poverty: why corporatisation, deregulation and privatisation doubled the cost of electricity for New Zealand households. Lecture to mark 100 years of Continuing Education at Victoria University, October 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity supply and poverty in New Zealand. Briefing paper for Policy Observatory, Auckland Institute of Technology, 2014. Link is http://briefingpapers.co.nz/electricity-supply-and-poverty-in-new-zealand/.
  • Geoff Bertram. Asset values, rents, and the single buyer proposal for the New Zealand electricity sector. Paper for seminar at Auckland University Economics Department, April 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. History of power charges pure fiction. New Zealand Herald, January 30 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. “Is there a ‘regulatory compact’ regarding gentailer asset values and revenues? Is so, what does it say?” . Presentation to IGPS symposium on proposals to restructure the electricity market, July 2013. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Tighter rein urged on asset revaluations. Dominion Post, page A9, April 29 2013. The attached file is a facsimile of the article as it appeared. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Geoff Bertram proposes NZ regulate electricity pricing so that only indexed historic costs can be used to set prices as is done in England. Interest.co.nz, April 29 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Asset values and regulation. Presentation to Fabian Society, 16 April 2013, April 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity prices, asset values, regulation, and renewables. Slides for Sustainable Energy Forum presentation, July 2012. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission to Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on the Mixed Ownership Bill. The Bill provides for part-privatisation of state-owned assets in New Zealand, April 2012. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Paths not taken in electricity restructuring: alternatives to the asset sales programme. Institute of Policy Studies seminar, 13 April 2012, April 2012. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The New Zealand Electricity System: link to video. On web, February 2013. Video interview with Paul Brennan 2 February 2012. Web link: http://www.ziln.co.nz/video/6031. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Weak regulation, rising margins, and asset revaluations: New Zealand’s failing experiment in electricity reform. In Fereidoon Sioshansi, editor, Evolution of Global Electricity Markets: new paradigms, new challenges, new approaches, chapter 21, pages 645-628. Elsevier, 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Asset revaluations, price-gouging, and barriers to entry: the state of play in electricity sector non-regulation . Seminar at Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, May 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Doug Clover. Kicking the fossil fuel habit: New Zealand’s ninety percent renewable target for electricity. In F. P. Sioshansi, editor, Generating electricity in a carbon-constrained world, pages 369-408. Elsevier, 2010. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Restructuring of the New Zealand Electricity Sector, 1984-2005. In F.P. Sioshansi and W. Pfaffenberger (eds) International Experience in Restructured Electricity Markets: What Works, What Does Not, and Why? Elsevier, 2006. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Dan Twaddle. Price-Cost Margins and Profit Rates in New Zealand Electricity Distribution Networks Since 1994: The Cost of Light-Handed Regulation. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 27(3):281-307, 2005. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Deregulation and Monopoly Profits in New Zealand’s Gas and Electricity Sectors. Energy Studies Review, 12(2):208-227, Spring 2004. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. Supplementary Submission with respect to Commerce Commission Review of Electricity Lines Businesses’ Asset Valuation Methodology. December 2002. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. Submission to Commerce Commision with Respect to “Review of Asset Valuation Methodologies: Electricity Lines Businesses’ System Fixed Assets”. November 2002. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. Lining Up the Charges: Electricity Line Charges and ODV. Simon Terry Associates, July 2000. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Non-linear Pricing Theory: The case of Wholesale Electricity pricing in New Zealand. New Zealand Economic Papers, 30(1):87-108, 1996. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The Aniwhenua and Wheao Hydro Schemes and the Energy Companies Act 1992. Report prepared for Waitangi Tribunal Hearings on the Te Ika Whenua energy assets claim (Report WAI 212) March 1993. Vol. 1: Research Report and Vol.2: Appendices – supporting documents. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Economy-wide effects of a major increase in the wholesale price of electricity: new results from the JOANNA model. Working paper 1/93, Graduate School of Business and Government Management, Victria University of Wellington, January 1993. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, Ian Dempster, Stephen Gale and Simon Terry. Hydro New Zealand: providing for progressive pricing of electricity. Report for Electricity Reform Coalition, March 1992. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Keith Johnston. Where has all the power gone? New Zealand Engineering, 35(7):13-18, August 1980. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Keith Johnston. Electricity in New Zealand: Is there a surplus to sell? Development Information Group, Coalition for Open Government, 1980. [ .pdf ]

Energy and Climate Change

  • Geoff Bertram, Two charts for presentation in an Engineers for Social Responsibility seminar 15 June 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Two affidavits in the High Court case Lawyers for Climate Action NZ v Climate Change Commission and Minister for Climate Change, heard in February 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Dishonest accounting: comments on the Climate Change Commission draft report, https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/igps/publications/public-submissions. This was my submission on the Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Reform) Amendment Bill, submitted to the Environment Select Committee of the New Zealand Parliament, January 2020. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Affidavit of Ivo Geoffrey Bertram in the matter of a claim that the Crown is acting in breach of Treaty of Waitangi obligations as a result of the New Zealand Government failing to implement adequate policies to address global climate change. Presented in evidence to the Waitangi Truibunal in case WAI 2607, November 2019. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. William Nordhaus’s Climate Club Proposal: thinking globally about climate change economics. Policy Quarterly, 12(2):23-29, May 2016. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. William Nordhaus’s climate club proposal: Thinking globally about climate change economics. Seminar paper, February 2016. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Climate change economics: Thinking globally. Presentation in Christchurch 30 September 2015, repeated for the Fabian Society in Wellington, 26 October 2015., September 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Martin Manning Shonagh Kenderdine Peter Barrett Geoff Bertram and Suze Kerr. Submission on New Zealand’s climate change target, June 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Light-handed regulation of the energy sectors. In Flawed theory, failed practice: light-handed regulation in New Zealand, pages 51-72. NZ Fabian Society, 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. The Carbon Challenge: New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme. Bridget Williams Books, 2010.
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. Errata for The Carbon Challenge: New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme, 2010. Pages 100-101 were wrongly typeset; these are the corrected pages. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Border Carbon Adjustments and Climate Change Policy. In Jane Kelsey, editor, No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, pages 136-148. Bridget Williams Books, 2010. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. The Carbon Challenge: Response, Responsibility and the Emissions Trading Scheme. Sustainability Council of New Zealand, April 2008. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Climate Change Policy and forestry I. Technical report, Ministry of Agriculture, November 2001. Review of an NZIER report.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Energy. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 42(1):115-131, April 2001. Special Issue on New Zealand. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Tradeable Emission Quotas and the Control of Greenhouse Gases. In Tom Tietenberg, editor, The Economics of Global Warming. Edward Elgar, 1997.
  • Geoff Bertram. Tax and permit instruments of emission abatement policy. Victoria Economic Commentaries 13(2):13-19, September 1996. [ https://geoffbertram.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/tax-and-permit-instruments-vec-2006.pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Tradeable Emission Quotas, Technical Progress and Climate Change. Environment and Development Economics, 1(1):465-487, 1996. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Modelling the Effects on the New Zealand Economy of the Use of Economic Instruments to Reduce Carbon Emissions. In W.J. Bouma, C.I. Pearman, and M.R. Manning, editors, Greenhouse: Coping with Climate Change, pages 586-606. CSIRO, 1996. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Beyond Joint Implementation: Technology Transfer and Climate Change. In K. Ishizuka, S. Hisajima, and D.R.J. Macer, editors, Traditional Technology for Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Asian-Pacific Region. University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1996.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Tradeable Emission Permits and the Control of Greenhouse Gases. Journal of Development Studies, 28(3):423-446, April 1992. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram, Bob Stephens, and Cath Wallace. The Relevance of Economic Instruments for Tackling the Greenhouse Effect. Technical report, New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, 1989. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. The Political Economy of Oil: Peru and New Zealand Compared. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 14:290-296, October 1978.
  • Geoff Bertram. Climate change and forestry II. November 2001.

The New Zealand Economy

  • Geoff Bertram. Reflections on Not In Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand, by Brian Easton. Journal of New Zealand Studies NS34: 94-98. 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Bill Rosenberg. How policy and institutions affect the shares of wages, profit, and rent in New Zealand: paper presented to New Zealand Association of Economists Conference, Wellington, June 2022. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The 2018 Budget: Politics and Economics. Policy Observatory Briefing Papers, May 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Barry Coates Geoff Bertram Rod Oram and Tim Hazeldine. The Economics of the TPPA. NZ Law Foundation, January 2016. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Research note: a revised set of New Zealand wealth estimates. Policy Quarterly, 11(3):73-75, August 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. A New Zealand perspective on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the twenty-first century. Policy Quarterly, 11(1):39-46, February 2015. There is an error in Table 1 which subtracted foreign holdings rather than adding them. A revised version is in the August issue of Policy Quarterly. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Review of Jim McAloon, Judgments of all kinds: economic policy-making in New Zealand 1945-1984. Journal of New Zealand Studies, NS20:120-122, 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Some thoughts on exchange rate overvaluation and bank regulation. slides for Fabians seminar ‘Fresh Ideas for a Productive Economy, July 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Some thoughts on exchange rate overvaluation and bank regulation. Text of presentation to Fabians seminar “Fresh Ideas for a Productive Economy”, July 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Bank regulation, exchange rate policy, overseas debt, and asset sales: how to untangle them? Talk to Fabian Society, March 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Slides on the NZ economy early 2011. Material used in talks on the economy, March 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Mining in the New Zealand Economy. Policy Quarterly, 7(1):13-19, February 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Jonathan Boston. Editorial for special issue on mining in the Conservation Estate. Policy Quarterly, 7(1):2, February 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. A comparative world-systems analysis of settler colonies in the Hispanic and Anglo realms. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 11:11-34, 2011. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Deregulatory Irresponsibility: Takings, Transfers and Transcendental Institutionalism. Policy Quarterly, 6(2):48-53, May 2010. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Jonathan Boston. Editorial for special issue on the Regulatory Responsibility Bill. Policy Quarterly, 6(2):2, May 2010. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Mining Economics and the Conservation Estate text of report (appendices separate). Technical report, Simon Terry Associates Reserch Ltd, 2010. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Mining Economics and the Conservation Estate: appendices. Technical report, Simon Terry Associates Research td, 2010. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. New Zealand’s Overseas Debt, the Banks, and the Crisis. CAFCA Watchdog, (120):25-39, May 2009. http://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/20/04.htm is the link for the published version. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The Banks, the Current Account, the Financial Crisis, and the Outlook. Policy Quarterly, 5(1):9-16, February 2009. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. The New Zealand Economy 1900-2000. In Giselle Byrnes, editor, New Oxford History of New Zealand, chapter 22, pages 537-572 and endnotes pp.713-717 . Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2009. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. The New Zealand Economy Since 1984: Elite Succession, Income Distribution and Economic Growth in a Small Trading Economy. GeoJournal, 59(2):93-106, 2004. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Economic, Legal and Political Theory in Relation to the New Zealand Commerce Commission’s Public Benefits Test. September 2003. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Economic, Legal and Political Theory in Relation to the New Zealand Commerce Commission’s Public Benefit Test. September 2003. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Factor income shares and the current account of the New Zealand balance of payments. Australasian Macro Workshop, Wellington, April 2002. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Factor Income Shares, the Banking Sector, the Exchange Rate, and the New Zealand Current Account Deficit. New Zealand Economic Papers, 36(2):177-198, 2002. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. The Factor Shares Debate: An Update. In Philip Morrison, editor, Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference. Institute of Geography, Vctoria University of Wellington, 2001. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Kevin Hackwell. Pests and Weeds in New Zealand: The Costs of Restoring an Indigenous Dawn Chorus. New Zealand Conservation Authority, 1999.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Macroeconomic Debate and Economic Growth in Postwar New Zealand . In C. Rudd and B. Roper, editors, The Political Economy of New Zealand. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Keynesianism, Neoclassicism and the State. In C. Rudd and B. Roper, editors, State and Economy in New Zealand. Oxford University Press, 1993. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Overseas Debt as a Constraint on Alternative Policies for New Zealand. December 1991. Paper prepared for Gamma Foundation workshop. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. The Limitations of Regional Employment Initiatives. In L. Evans, J. Poot, and N. Quigley, editors, Long Run Perspectives on the New Zealand Economy: Proceedings of the Sesquicentennial Conference of the New Zealand Association of Economists, pages 448-462, June 1991.
  • Geoff Bertram. New Zealand Tariff Policy Between the Wars. Paper presented at New Zealand Association of Economists conference 1988, revised 1990, 1990. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Evaluation of Employment Programmes. In Royal Commission on Social Policy: The April Report, volume 3. Government Printer, Wellington, 1988.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Middle Class Capture: a Brief Survey. In Royal Commission on Social Policy: The April Report, volume 3. Government Printer, Wellington, 1988. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Rents in the New Zealand Energy Sector. In Royal Commision on Social Policy: The April Report. Government Printer, Wellington, 1988. Also published as Victoria University of Wellington Economics Department Discussion Paper No 52, April 1988.[ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Second Thoughts on the Perrings Model. One of a series of working papers in the 1983 debate over whether the New Zealand economy faced a savings constraint or a foreign-exchange constraint., October 1983. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Graeme Wells. The Real Wage Controversy. In Bob Buckle, editor, Inflation and Economic Adjustment: Proceedings of a Seminar, pages 68-117. Department of Economics, Victoria University of Wellington, 1983. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Janya McCalman. Size and productivity in New Zealand manufacturing: a first look. Paper presented to New Zealand Geography Conference, Wellington, August 1981.
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Keith Johnston. Where has all the power gone? New Zealand Engineering, 35(7):13-18, August 1980. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Keith Johnston. Electricity in New Zealand: Is there a surplus to sell? Development Information Group, Coalition for Open Government, 1980. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Mark O’Brien. Optimal Pricing Policy and Indigenous Forest Management in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Forestry, 24(2):261-296, 1979. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Television and the Decline of the Cinema in New Zealand: a Study of Changing Location Patterns, 1956-1966. New Zealand Geographer, 26(2):136-144, October 1970. For size reasons the file is split into two. This is pp.136-140. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Television and the Decline of the Cinema in New Zealand: a Study of Changing Location Patterns, 1956-1966. New Zealand Geographer, 26(2):136-144, October 1970. For size reasons the file has been split in two; this is pp.141-144. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The real wage debate continued. 1989.

Regulation

  • Geoff Bertram, The near-collapse and pending recovery of regulatory governance in New Zealand. Paper presented to workshop on “Regulatory governance: models and dynamics”, Florence, 26-29 June 2022.
  • Geoff Bertram, ‘Benefit to New Zealand’ test a sham: comment on the High Court’s Oceana Gold decision. CAFCA Foreign Control Watchdog 155 December 2020, online at http://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/55/07.html .
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission on Default Price-quality Paths for electricity distribution businesses from 1 April 2020: Issues Paper published 15 November 2018. Submitted to NZ Commerce Commission, December 2018. Online at https://comcom.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/112013/Geoff-Bertram-Submission-on-EDB-DPP-reset-issues-paper-19-December-2018.pdf. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Second submission in response to the first report of the Electricity Price Review Panel: Gentailers’ profits. Submitted to Electricity Price Review, October 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Submission in response to first report of the review panel: distributors’ profits. Submission to Electricity Price Review, September 2018. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. New Zealand’s zombie ‘regulators’ have struck again. Dominion Post, November 10 2015. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Electricity supply and poverty in New Zealand. Policy Observatory Briefing Papers, September 2014. Online at http://briefingpapers.co.nz/electricity-supply-and-poverty-in-new-zealand/#_ftn1.
  • Geoff Bertram. Light-handed regulation of the energy sectors. In Flawed theory, failed practice: light-handed regulation in New Zealand, pages 51-72. NZ Fabian Society, 2014. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Weak regulation, rising margins, and asset revaluations: New Zealand’s failing experiment in electricity reform. In Fereidoon Sioshansi, editor, Evolution of Global Electricity Markets: new paradigms, new challenges, new approaches, chapter 21, pages 645-628. Elsevier, 2013. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Assessing the Structure of Small Welfare States. Number 4 in Social Policies in Small States. Commonwealth Secretariat and UNRISD, 2011.
  • Geoff Bertram. Exclusionary bundling, predatory pricing, and section 36:  Carter Holt Harvey Products Group Ltd v Commerce Commission. Waikato Law Review 14: 17-33. [ .pdf ] 
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Predatory Pricing and Section 36. Paper presented to Sixth Annual Competition Law and Regulation Review Conference, Wellington, February 2006. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Asset Value, ODV, and Contestability Theory. Presentation to Brightstar conference on regulatory economics, February 2005. [ http ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Dan Twaddle. Price-Cost Margins and Profit Rates in New Zealand Electricity Distribution Networks Since 1994: The Cost of Light-Handed Regulation. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 27(3):281-307, 2005. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. What’s wrong with New Zealand’s public benefit test? . New Zealand Economic Papers, 38(2):265-277, December 2004. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Deregulation and Monopoly Profits in New Zealand’s Gas and Electricity Sectors. Energy Studies Review, 12(2):208-227, Spring 2004. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Unbundling the Local Loop in New Zealand: Some Economic Issues Raised by Telecom’s Evidence. Report for TelstraClear, November 2003. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram and Simon Terry. Insurability, Financial Fitness, and GM Organisms. Monograph, Sustainability Council of New Zealand, September 2003. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. Supplementary Submission with respect to Commerce Commission Review of Electricity Lines Businesses’ Asset Valuation Methodology. December 2002. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. Submission to Commerce Commision with Respect to “Review of Asset Valuation Methodologies: Electricity Lines Businesses’ System Fixed Assets”. November 2002. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Identifying and estimating excess profits in New Zealand infrastructure utilities. A 2002 seminar paper summing up several years of research on utility profits and regulatory failures in New Zealand, November 2002. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, Ian Dempster, and Simon Terry. Portly Charges: Port Company Profitability. Simon Terry Associates, March 2002. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Climate Change Policy and Forestry: Review of an NZIER Report. Technical report, Ministry of Agriculture, November 2001. [ .pdf ]
  • Simon Terry, Mark Hickford, Geoffrey Palmer, and Geoff and Bertram. Who Bears the Risk? Genetic Modification and Liability. Chen Palmer & Partners and Simon Terry Associates, September 2001. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, Ian Dempster, and Simon Terry. Pipeline Profits: Gas Pipeline Rates of Return. Simon Terry Associates, July 2001. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram, Ian Dempster, and Simon Terry. Rates of Return at Auckland International Airport. Simon Terry Associates report for Air New Zealand, August 2000. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry. Lining Up the Charges: Electricity Line Charges and ODV. Simon Terry Associates, July 2000. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Light Handed Disciplines on the Market power of Network Owners: New Zealand’s Pipeline Access Code and Information Disclosure Regulations . Victoria Economic Commentaries, pages 9-24, March 1999. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. The Optimised Deprival Value Methodology and the Objectives of Utility Sector Reform in New Zealand. First presented to New Zealand Association of Economists conference, Wellington, July 2000, 2000 revised 2002. [ .pdf ]

Peru

  • Geoffrey Bertram. Peru, 1930-1960. In Leslie Bethell, editor, Historia de America Latina 16: Los paises andinos desde 1930. Editorial Critica and Cambridge University Press, Barcelona, 2002.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Peru 1930 – c1960. In Leslie Bethell, editor, The Cambridge History of Latin America: Bibliographic Essays, volume XI, chapter 37. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Geoffrey Bertram. Peru, 1930-1960. In Leslie Bethell, editor, Cambridge History of Latin America Vol.VIII: 1930 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Rosemary Thorp and Geoffrey Bertram. Perú 1890-1977: Crecimiento y Politica en una Economía Abierta. Mosca Azul, Lima, 1985.
  • John Kirby and Geoffrey Bertram. South American Geographical Studies: Agricultural Systems. Action Publications, Christchurch, 1981.
  • Rosemary Thorp and Geoffrey Bertram. Peru 1890-1977: Growth and Policy in an Open Economy . Macmillan, 1978.
  • Rosemary Thorp and Geoffrey Bertram. Industrialización en una Economía Abierta: el Caso del Perú en el Período 1890-1940. Economía, 1(1), December 1977.
  • Geoff Bertram. End-use classification of Peruvian imports, 1891-1972. Monograph, St Antonys College Oxford, 1977. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Modernización y cambio en la industria lanera en el sur del Perú 1919-1930: un caso frustrado de desarrollo. Apuntes, 6:3-22, 1977. [ .pdf ]
  • Rosemary Thorp and Geoffrey Bertram. Industrialisation in an Open Economy: A Case Study of Peru 1890-1940. In C.T. Miller, R.mand Smith and J Fisher, editors, Social and Economic Change in Modern Peru, Monograph Series No 6. Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, 1975.
  • Geoff Bertram. Modernisation and Change in the Wool Industry of Southern Peru: a Case of Development Failure. Working paper, Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University, 1975. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoff Bertram. Development problems in an export economy: a study of demostic capitalists, foreign firms and government in Peru, 1919-1930. D Phil dissertation, Oxford University, 1974. [ .pdf ]
  • Geoffrey Bertram. New Thinking on the Peruvian Highland Peasantry. Pacific Viewpoint, September 1974. [ .pdf