Economics New Zealand

The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research has followed up on an idea I threw out here in August, suggesting that somebody ought to a...

The latest quarterly Westpac McDermott Miller survey of consumer confidence came out this morning, and much of it was pretty positive. But ...

The first edition of the new Household Labour Force Survey came out yesterday, and there have been some strange reactions. At first I agr...

Yesterday I wrote about Statistics NZ's day seminar on the Household Labour Force Survey . Here are links to the papers I mentioned. S...

It's not often a statistical survey has a birthday celebration, but yesterday Statistics NZ had a 30 year anniversary do at AUT to celeb...

Last week's post about a paper that documented  the remarkable level of economic ignorance amongst New Zealand's business managers ...

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...

Bryce Edwards' Twitter feed  pointed me towards an interesting new piece of research from the Lifestyles Research Group at the Universit...

The latest monthly business opinion survey from National Australia Bank had this interesting item. The interesting bit, for me, was th...

Earlier this week the Commerce Commission came out with its latest Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report (pdf) , and very interesting ...

The latest global commercial property survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the UK came out recently, and it said som...

Last week the Reserve Bank published the latest in its Analytical Note series, 'The Reserve Bank’s method of estimating “potential outpu...

I really like Bill McBride's Calculated Risk  blog, a great guide to what's happening to the US economy. Apart from the obvious cove...

Treasury's latest Monthly Economic Indicators came out today. Here's a selection of some of the bits I found interesting. First, ...

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

It's not the best known of surveys, but every quarter the Reserve Bank carries out a survey of expectations across a reasonably broad cr...

I was waxing lyrical yesterday about the great utility of the longer-running business opinion surveys to anyone   interested in getting an u...

One of the odd things about media coverage of economic developments is that some releases get lots of coverage, while others go largely unre...