Economics New Zealand

You don't often see competition reform feature in the Budget, but we did last week. "We are ... committed to boosting competition i...

We've just had the Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Statement. In the pre-MPS poll that Daniel Dunkley ran for the Good Returns website I...

The inflation numbers we got this morning - headline annual rate 1.9%, with tradables inflation running at 1.0% and non-tradables at 2.6% -...

All as expected from the Reserve Bank today,  the OCR cut to 1.75% and expected to stay there "for a very long time", as its head...

Yesterday's inflation data held no great surprises. Everybody expected a pretty low number for inflation during the September quarter a...

What is it about graphs? We're supposed to be living in a new world of 'dataviz' journalism where bright young things are taki...

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

Although we are heavily intertwined with the global economy, us New Zealanders are not terribly good at living with its corollary: while we ...

You'll have likely seen the news that overall inflation has come out lower than the Reserve Bank's target, and lower than forecaster...

The Reserve Bank came out with a new discussion paper last week, 'Inflation expectations and low inflation in New Zealand' . While D...

..and what I mean is, I'm going to show you a series of graphs, but I'm going to take my time baring all. Here's the first bit...

We got a remarkable insight recently into something very odd indeed in New Zealand, and it came from a rather unlikely source, the latest Br...

No surprises in today's Monetary Policy Statement - and that's fine: it's best if central banks don't have to make abrupt m...

I know, I know, the media are already full of coverage of today's speech by Graeme Wheeler, the Governor of the Reserve Bank (short vers...

Today's Reserve Bank monetary policy decision came as no surprise - as predicted, for example in this survey , the cash rate was left un...

This morning's retail sales statistics made the headlines for the strong overall growth in spending - up 1.2% in real terms during the q...

Yesterday Stats told us that inflation in the June quarter was 0.3%, a little less than the 0.4% that forecasters and the Reserve Bank had e...

I was re-reading Charles Wheelan's excellent Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science - one of the best books I know for explaini...