Economics New Zealand

We kicked off Day 2 with a keynote speech, "The monetary policy remit and two percent inflation", by Adrian Orr, governor of the R...

 After a rapid scramble to reorganise the schedule following the last minute loss of the planned keynote speaker, the 34th annual workshop o...

Scrutiny of mergers is on the increase, notably in the US, where new draft merger guidelines have been widely interpreted as a sign of a mo...

After the Covid-induced hiatus since its 2019 conference , RBB Economics got back on track last week with its traditional face to face confe...

We only got through Day 1 of last week's NZ Association of Economists' annual workshop before the Plague shut us down, but it was in...

Almost seven years ago,  the Productivity Commission raised it as an issue worth looking at. MBIE put out an issues paper in 2015; submissio...

I'm involved with a training programme for an overseas competition agency, and we've been going through the law and economics of car...

Over the summer holidays we like to blob out and read, and I've caught up with some great titles. In economics, top of the list are two ...

Interested in staying up with Australia's criminalisation of cartels, and New Zealand's impending move to do the same? Then head ove...

 ... you get to listen to a Nobel prize winning economist, so big shout out to the University of Auckland for its Dean's Distinguished V...

Last week's Competition Law and Policy Institute (CLPINZ) workshop was - perforce - the first time CLPINZ has run the annual event onli...

Last weekend we had the 30th annual workshop of the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand , and to mark the CLPINZ anniversary...