Improving markets, regulation, and sector structure
For investors and asset owners,
we advocate market designs that will enable investor returns while serving the public interest. We help them comply with regulations set by competition authorities, protect themselves from market manipulation, and profit from sector transformation caused by disruptive technologies and regulatory changes
For international agencies and governments,
we design markets for vital public services, Design regulation to control monopoly power and to limit negative externalities , and transform sector performance through appropriate policies and sector designs.
Sectors
Advice on Water Sector Reform, New Zealand
The New Zealand government is proposing to reform the water sector into a small set of regional public corporations. Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ), representing the national interests of local councils in New Zealand, engaged Castalia as a trusted economic ... Read more
Freight Forecast Due Diligence for Inland Multimodal Terminal, Australia
Castalia performed due diligence on the proposed intermodal freight terminal at Moorebank in Sydney. To support the investment required, project developers needed independently verified freight projections ... Read more
New Zealand’s Three-Water Infrastructure Stocktake
Castalia carried out a stocktake of New Zealand’s stormwater infrastructure and wrote an issues paper that described the complexity of stormwater management across the country. New Zealand’s local government lacked an updated stocktake of their stormwater infrastructure which impeded their ... Read more
Review of the Electricity Pricing Commissioner’s Power, Australia
Castalia provided an independent opinion to the New South Wales Government and Parliament on the adequacy of the powers of the new Electricity Price Commissioner. The Government promised that a planned electricity privatization would not increase electricity prices, but there ... Read more
Natural Gas Development: Open Access and On-Shore Uses, Papua New Guinea
Castalia developed policies requiring firms exporting natural gas from Papua New Guinea to also supply on-shore customers, and to allow other firms to access their pipelines. While PNG’s natural gas export business was flourishing, local customers could not access gas, ... Read more
Suriname Electricity Sector Plan
Castalia developed an Electricity Sector Plan for Suriname which set out the financial, technical, institutional and governance steps to connect unelectrified households. More than 50,000 people lacked electricity service in Suriname, despite the country having more than $880 million in ... Read more
Economic Advice to Bidder on $3.25 billion Generation and Retail Privatization
Castalia helped Australia’s Origin Energy gain approval to bid for electricity retail and generation assets being privatized by the State of New South Wales. Origin already owned other power assets, so it had to show that acquiring more would not ... Read more
Competition Effects of Physiotherapy Contracts, New Zealand
Castalia gave expert evidence that a new contracting model to pay physiotherapists did not breach competition law. Physiotherapists had claimed that the new contracts, which prevented them from charging patients additional out-of-pocket fees, limited competition and amounted to price-fixing ... Read more
