INFRASTRUCTURE AND MARKETS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES
Providing expert evidence
We help clients with…
Investigating anti-competitive conduct by providing expert advice. Our experts advise on allegations and disputes related to price fixing of social service, anti-competitive behavior, anti-trust and breach of service.
Investigation Into Possible Anti-Competitive Impact Medical Association Practices, New Zealand
Castalia developed a methodology to distinguish between entry restrictions based on quality and those that created competition-limiting barriers. New Zealand’s Commerce Commission was concerned about the admissions practices of professional medical associations. It wanted to check whether they were reducing competition in specialist medical fields by imposing anti-competitive barriers to entry in the specialist fields. Read more
Guardian Homes, New Zealand
Castalia calculated a rest-home operator’s market share if it purchased its competitor’s business assets. We concluded that its new market share would not be large enough to raise questions about reduced competition. Castalia’s client, a rest-home operator, wanted to purchase a competitor’s facilities and expand its business. The operator needed to know if the Commerce Commission would block the purchase due to concerns about reduced competition. Read more
Ophthalmologists’ Price-Fixing Prosecution, New Zealand
Castalia provided expert evidence in a successful case against anti-competitive behavior by ophthalmologists in New Zealand. Read more
Services
We help clients with assessing how competition and markets drive social sector outcomes, by using economic and financial analysis to ... Read more
We help clients with designing markets, shaping overall market structure to ensure vital social services and infrastructure are delivered efficiently, ... Read more
We help clients with designing and reviewing social infrastructure regulation, by reviewing regulatory decisions, frameworks, and proposed laws. We also ... Read more
We help clients with building institutions and capacity using public private partnership. We advise clients on how best to determine ... Read more
We help clients with fiscal management of social infrastructure and programs: building systems and capacity. We work with fiscally constrained ... Read more
We help clients with developing social services and infrastructure pipelines, ensuring that project pipelines identify, screen and prioritize social services ... Read more
We help clients with appraising and diligencing projects and investments, across social services and infrastructure. We apply financial models and ... Read more
We help clients with managing transactions, by carrying social infrastructure and service projects through to financial close, while protecting the ... Read more
We help clients with appraising social policy, by evaluating social service and infrastructure policies. We assess whether policies are designed ... Read more
We help clients with evaluating performance, learning and disseminating knowledge. We advise clients on best-practice service delivery models, and on ... Read more
