Economics & Policy Experience

The PwC Economics Group assists numerous public and private sector clients in a wide variety of industries. Examples of our current or recently completed projects include:
  • Activity Based Cost analysis of new activities which segments direct costs into fixed, variable and incremental components and allocates indirect costs to develop accurate unit cost estimates to provide analysis of profitability by product
  • Analysing the economic benefits for Government of different options for expanding capacity of infrastructure assets including ports, airports, transmission networks, roads & rail
  • Developing business cases to evaluate economic costs and benefits on a triple bottom line basis of proposed new Government subsidies or interventions
  • Development of 3rd party access regimes and prices in sectors such as rail, water, gas, ports and telecommunications
  • Development of Strategic Pricing Strategies which optimise revenue and earnings by analysing elasticity impacts and likely competitor responses
  • Developing submissions to regulators or Government Inquiries on behalf of utilities, corporations or industry associations
  • Estimating the economic impacts (employment growth, change in GDP etc) of major sporting or cultural events
  • Estimating the economic impacts of major land releases for mixed usage (housing, industrial and commercial)
  • Program (or post completion) reviews of the effectiveness of Government support in meeting proposed objectives
  • Undertaking Regulatory Impact Statements in numerous sectors, including construction, waste, retail, agriculture and chemicals.