Economics New Zealand

On August 23 the Aussie Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers in a joint release with the Assistant Minister for Competition Dr Andrew Leigh announced ...

Markets need institutions to help them work properly - things like a practically enforceable rule of law, well defined property rights, and ...

What's the geographical extent of a market? And why should we care? And why am I writing about it? Usually the geographical dimension ...

Some people wonder about the point of the OECD: an expensive talking shop? A rich countries' club? A hand-wringing observer on the sidel...

We've just seen a classic example of how the threat of entry can impose competitive constraint on an incumbent -  Air wars: Air New Zeal...

Deregulation of the airline industry is one of the success stories of economics from a number of perspectives (as I wrote earlier here ). It...

Robert Litan, the Brookings economist who last year published Trillion Dollar Economists: how economists and their ideas have transformed bu...

On Tuesday the ACCC said it was minded not to allow a proposed coordination agreement between Qantas and China Eastern on the Sydney-Shangha...

The veteran travel writer Jim Eagles has a piece in today's 'Travel' supplement to the Herald (I've searched the Herald ...

I don't normally have a lot of sympathy for incumbents with large market shares, least of all for ones who have a long history of lookin...

As I mentioned last week, I said I'd start to have a look at the submissions various parties have made to the Productivity Commission o...

A while ago I had a go at the protectionist stupidity  of typical bilateral inter-government airline agreements, as instanced on this occasi...

I read in this morning's online Sydney Morning Herald , under the headline "Cathay wants more flights Down Under" , that ...