Economics New Zealand

The 35th Annual Workshop of the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand (CLPINZ) was held last week at the Northern Club in Auck...

This week's 'mini Budget' was certainly down the minier end of mini, and understandably so. While I sympathise with a bias for a...

The OECD came out the other day with its latest PISA results - "the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines wha...

Every couple of years the OECD updates its Going For Growth reports , which are meant to be its best policy advice to governments on how to...

There's a really neat bit of dataviz gone up on the Productivity Commission website, which has a go at showing different measures of the...

The Commerce Commission's biennial 'Competition Matters' conference has wrapped up. Here are some of my takeaways: where the ro...

New Zealand's biggest economic problem is our low productivity by international standards. Here, for example, is a chart from an excelle...

Today's well-attended Government Economics Network (GEN) conference  in Wellington on the theme, "Responding to Global Challenges...

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 ,...

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

The Productivity Commission has just come out this morning with an interesting new Working Paper , "Who benefits from productivity gro...

Chorus got bowled like ninepins this morning by the  Court of Appeal, having earlier been skittled by the High Court. The cases were about...