Economics New Zealand

There's an ongoing barney on social and mainstream media about what the latest poor numbers for business confidence might or might not m...

Brining turkeys, looking after Christmas guests, and wrapping up the last bits of the year's consultancy work have eaten up my time, but...

Life's too short, and you can't do everything, and one of the things that fell off my radar for a while was Masterchef . Lately, tho...

We had a session at last week's RBB Economics conference in Sydney on "How can a Chief Economist's team enhance competition l...

At last year's NZ Association of Economics annual conference, I found a flier publicising Victoria's Master of Professional Economic...

Earlier this week the Commerce Commission came out with the second of its reviews of the sorts of contracts you and I get asked to sign when...

On Tuesday we had the Productivity Commission's excellent symposium on innovation  and productivity , where one of the main talking poin...

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

There are days when you really, really wonder about the efficiency of the financial markets. Apparently (according to the AP coverage), US...

Monopoly is in the air. The kiwi fruit people want more of it: the Herald 's coverage of their recent industry poll is here - where I l...

I've been a bit exercised by these "pay for delay" drug deals where patent holders buy off generic drug competition - see here...

Yesterday Stats came out with the latest productivity statistic s . They're very important numbers: in the long run, it's productivi...

I'm a reader, the old-fashioned kind. The house is full of books, there's a stack of unread ones beside the bed and a Unity Books lo...

I know I've said it before, but there really are so many business surveys around these days that even dedicated economy-watchers can...

Last weekend I was browsing  Jancis Robinson's wine column  at the  Financial Times , and discovered two interesting things I hadn't...

The Reserve Bank issued its  latest quarterly Bulletin today, and it included a chapter  on why inflation has turned out lower - much lower...