Economics New Zealand

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...

The 35th Annual Workshop of the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand (CLPINZ) was held last week at the Northern Club in Auck...

This month's publication of the OECD's latest product market regulation indices came up with a few surprises (here are the key takea...

Last week the New Zealand Association of Economists hosted a Commerce Commission themed session at its annual conference. It's become a ...