Economics New Zealand

Friday, 23 May 2025

Too slow? I don't think so

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Ignoring the predictably partisan knee-jerk assessments from the usual suspects, there were two broad camps of reaction to yesterday's B...
Thursday, 22 August 2024

CLPINZ 2024

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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...
Wednesday, 24 July 2024

Read the label carefully

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This month's publication of the OECD's latest product market regulation indices came up with a few surprises (here are the key takea...
Monday, 8 July 2024

The ComCom session at the NZAE conference

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Last week the New Zealand Association of Economists hosted a Commerce Commission themed session at its annual conference. It's become a ...
Thursday, 20 June 2024

Something will have to give

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This week's online seminar from Treasury had its chief economics adviser Dominick Stephens recapping the economic and fiscal outlook as...
Thursday, 30 May 2024

Budget 2024: tough choices deferred

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There’s a big bunch of Budget documents handed out to the serried ranks of analysts packed into the pre-Budget ‘lock-up’ in Parliament’s Ban...
Monday, 22 April 2024

How's my driving?

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At the end of February the Commerce Commission published an interesting "look back" review of what it could learn from how its me...
Thursday, 28 March 2024

Hemmed in

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Yesterday's Budget Policy Statement , the BPS, as expected, showed that the government's fiscal options are heavily hemmed in. As Je...
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