NATURAL RESOURCES
Assessing competition and markets
We help clients with…
Economic analysis of competition in natural resource markets, including submissions and evidence to support engagement with anti-trust authorities.
Water Sector Restructuring, Oman
Castalia helped the Government of the Sultanate of Oman merge various water providers into three regional utilities, develop business plans, calculate cost recovery tariffs, recommend subsidies, and develop a new regime for economic regulation. We assessed the likely impact of the reform. Oman’s government was spending $447 million each year to provide water services and wanted to reduce public spending on water while expanding service. Read more
Review of Market Competition for Livestock Improvement Services, New Zealand
Castalia compared existing access prices with prices calculated under the Efficient Component Pricing Rule (ECPR) to show that New Zealand’s Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) was not deterring competition through its charges for use of its livestock database. New Zealand’s Commerce Commission suspected the LIC was monopolizing the dairy cattle improvement market by setting high access prices to the livestock database. Read more
Services
We help clients with transforming sector structures and policies to improve sustainability and performance of fisheries, agribusiness, and forestry, and ... Read more
We help clients with improving performance of producer cooperatives and other natural resource enterprises ... Read more
We help clients with creating market mechanisms to manage natural resources efficiently ... Read more
We help clients with creating regulatory systems, so that natural resources are developed in an effective, sustainable manner. ... Read more
We help clients with assessing investment opportunities for developing natural resources ... Read more
We help clients with managing stakeholders and building consensus, so that government, business, and community stakeholders take ownership of natural ... Read more
We help clients by providing expert evidence, providing independent economic evidence to support planning applications and engagement in regulatory processes. ... Read more
We help clients with designing systems for resource and ecosystems management, building on our long-standing expertise in systems for optimal ... Read more
