Economics New Zealand

In my post the other day, about the progress of our latest effort at competition law reform, I noted that the Select Committee dealing with ...

Last month the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Select Committee produced its report on the Commerce (Promoting Competition and ...

This week's Performance Improvement Review (PIR) of the Treasury took me aback.  I've met many people from Treasury over the years ...

We've just had a big report commissioned from Frontier Economics into the workings of our electricity markets, with two peer reviews of...

Earlier this month I wrote up the latest slew of competition policy reforms, and mistakenly included one proposed reform that actually wasn...

This week's second batch of competition policy reforms, announced jointly by Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Commerce and Consumer Af...

Last week's competition policy announcements by Scott Simpson, the Minister for Commerce and Consumer Affairs, were some modest steps i...

Ignoring the predictably partisan knee-jerk assessments from the usual suspects, there were two broad camps of reaction to yesterday's B...