Economics New Zealand

Yesterday's Monetary Policy Statement went entirely as expected - no change to the Official Cash Rate (still 0.25%), no change to the L...

A while back I went and had a looksie at some local Special Housing Areas near me in Auckland. I wasn't hugely impressed. At the first...

The bill that aims to rein in non-residents buying New Zealand houses - the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill - is currently before the Fi...

Earlier this month I posted what I hope will be my last tiki tour of some Special Housing Areas (SHAs) near our place. And at the time I sa...

Almost two years ago now, I went and had a look at a Special Housing Area (SHA) that had been set up a few Ks away in Browns Bay. Oddly, th...

There was good news today about the volume of new housing consents in Auckland: as Stats pointed out in the release , "Monthly building...

Housing is understandably high on the political agenda at the moment. But amidst all the blame-seeking and potential policy responses, one o...

The other day I was poring over the NZIER's latest compilation of consensus forecasts - an invaluable resource from many perspectives, ...

Most years - they skipped 2016 - the OECD comes out with one of its Going For Growth  reports. They're a big thing for the OECD: its Dir...

"Increasing mortgage interest rates", the Reserve Bank said on page 18 of  its latest Monetary Policy Statement , "combined w...

There was a big turnout on Tuesday night in Auckland at the latest Law and Economics Association of New Zealand ( LEANZ ) event - a panel di...

The economy's ticking along nicely. Tomorrow's GDP numbers for the September quarter are expected to show an 0.8% increase for the q...

Yesterday's report from the Productivity Commission , 'Achieving New Zealand's Productivity Potential' (press release here ,...

At last. Last month, workers arrived and started to put advertising hoarding up... ...announcing that this former New World superma...

The latest statistics on building consents came out this morning, and I've been keeping an eye on them mainly because Auckland housing ...

There is some really interesting material in today's Monetary Policy Statement  (pdf file). On the downside, there's an analysis o...