Media release: Recent media on our “Social and economic impacts of Basin Plan water recovery in Victoria 2022” report
We respond to recent references to our "Social and economic impacts of Basin Plan water recovery in Victoria 2022" report.
Public native forest logging: a large and growing taxpayer burden
We were recently asked by the Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) to examine the financial and budgetary drivers behind the Victorian Government’s decision to accelerate the closure of its [...]
The long road for road pricing
Frontier Economics was commissioned by the Water Services Association of Australia to produce a report to explain economic efficiency to the water sector.
Media Centre: AustralianSuper rejects Brookfield and EIG bid for Origin Energy
Frontier Economics was an independent advisor to AustralianSuper, for Brookfield and EIG's Origin Energy takeover scheme. Our role was to review the assumptions used in the Independent Expert’s [...]
Making economic efficiency easier for the water sector to understand
Frontier Economics was commissioned by the Water Services Association of Australia to produce a report to explain economic efficiency to the water sector.
Input Methodologies and Financeability – Vector
Frontier Economics' recently provided advice to several clients in regards to the Queensland Competition Authority's process for their approach to climate change related expenditure. This [...]
Frontier Economics’ Independent Advice on QCA’s Climate Change Expenditure Review
Frontier Economics' recently provided advice to several clients in regards to the Queensland Competition Authority's process for their approach to climate change related expenditure. This [...]
Regulatory financeability tests: early or late warning systems?
This bulletin explains why it is essential for regulators in Australia to adopt financeability tests as standard practice whenever they make a regulatory determination, and to take the results of [...]
Same but Different: Diverging Paths of Merger Reforms in Australia and the United States
Warwick Davis' view on the ACCC’s proposed merger reforms for processes and legal tests for merger clearance, and the differences in the US. Following from his participation at the International [...]
Economic Regulation: Beyond Efficiency?
A summary of the address given by Dinesh Kumareswaran, Director of Frontier Economics, during the first plenary session titled 'Beyond efficiency", at the 2023 ACCC/AER economic regulation [...]
Water infrastructure that is efficiently & fairly funded
Developer groups have opposed Sydney Water and Hunter Water’s planned reintroduction of infrastructure contributions (or ‘developer charges’). These charges to developers help recover the [...]
The time to end native forest logging in NSW is now
With the Victorian government announcing an end to native forest logging by 1 January 2024, we revisit a recent report prepared for WWF–Australia (World Wide Fund for Nature Australia) in August [...]
Water Industry Women 2023
Frontier Economics and Arup are pleased to have co-hosted an informal networking event for women in the water industry, following Day One of the Ozwater 2023 Conference in Sydney.
Water we doing about hydrogen?
The economics of water security in Australia’s hydrogen transition.
Response to Dr Venn, University of Queensland
Frontier Economics and the Australian National University respond to Dr Tyron Venn’s critique of our report comparing the value of alternative uses of native forests in Southern NSW.
ACCC consults on NBN Co’s special access undertaking (SAU) variation proposal
The ACCC has released a consultation paper on NBN Co’s SAU variation. NBN Co’s latest proposals are accompanied by two expert reports prepared by Frontier Economics.
