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...

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

There's been a lot of focus on what looks like a large $7.5 billion fiscal surplus in the fiscal year just ended. Part of it, as Treasur...

Little did I know, when I got antsy the other day about where the electricity price review had got to, that Dr Megan Woods, the Minister of...

A year ago, in the interest of making competition work, we switched our electricity supplier ( 'We take the plunge' ). And now that ...

...and in the interests of scientific inquiry our household has a go at changing electricity retailers. Time, in short, to stop being the ...

Last week MBIE published the first report of the Electricity Price Review - you can find it and its supporting documents here . If it's ...

Earlier this week the LEANZ programme of Auckland seminars got a more than usually eminent speaker: Professor Sir Martin Cave, who among ma...

Last week's RBB Economics conference in Sydney lived up to its six excellent predecessors (write-ups of last year's: keynote addres...

...no sooner did we get a big chunk of reporting on the electricity markets on Tuesday from the Electricity Authority (which I posted abou...

The Electricity Authority has just come out with its latest annual report , and I was pleased to see it continues to report on the state of ...

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...