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Principal Economist, Dr Richard Meade
cognitus • adj. 1 known (from experience), tried/proved. 2 noted, acknowledged/recognised. (Oxford Latin Dictionary)
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Dr Meade publishes working paper using micro-economic foundations to show the impact of firm ownership by consumers on consumer preferences. (Download)
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Cognitus completes brief of evidence for the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of Wairarapa Moana Incorporation, estimating historical losses from Public Works Act takings in relation to the Maraetai hydro-electric power scheme on the Waikato River, and the Incorporation's required economic base.
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Dr Meade presents paper at 8th VUW Microeconomics Workshop on measuring prosumer welfare and estimating residual electricity demand when households can invest in solar panels and related distributed energy resources.
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Dr Meade teaches invited lecture on economics of ownership at University of Auckland.
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Cognitus completes brief of evidence for the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of Ngāi Tūmapūhia-ā-Rangi, evaluating forest-land related statutory compensation and the hapū's required economic base.
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Dr Meade gives two presentations to the Commerce Commission, on data-based disruption and the economics of privacy, and modelling the prosumer (specifically, households with distributed energy resources like solar panels). (Prosumer Slides, Prosumer Paper)
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Dr Meade presents expert evidence before the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of Te Aitanga a Mahaki and Mangatu Incorporation, estimating land-based and non-land historical losses dating as far back as the 19th century.
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Dr Meade discusses Commerce Commission's impending market studies powers at 29th annual CLPINZ workshop, Chapman Tripp, Wellington.
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Dr Meade attends managerial performance analysis course at Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis at University of Queensland.
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Dr Meade awarded David Teece Prize for second year running, at 2018 New Zealand Association of Economists annual conference, for paper applying theory of industrial organisation to value historical losses from 19th century Maori land tenure legislation. (Paper, Slides)
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Dr Meade presents on data-based disruption and the economics of privacy at the Legal Research Foundation's Law and Technology conference. (Slides)
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Dr Meade interviewed by Radio Live about competition in New Zealand fuel industry, and discusses related 2017 study co-authored by Cognitus, NZIER and Grant Thornton for MBIE. (MBIE website information, Report download)
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Dr Meade attends energy economics workshop at Toulouse School of Economics, with presentations by leading European researchers.
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Dr Meade presents paper co-authored with Mattia Girotti of Banque de France, on simulated demutualisation of US banking system, at 2nd Asia-Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference. (Link to paper)