Wednesday, 30 October 2013

A tale of two cities

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Grant Spencer, Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank, gave a speech, Trends in the New Zealand housing market , to the Property Council earlie...
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Thursday, 24 October 2013

Leopards and spots, Japanese style

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Here's a potted (though I think fair) summary of the current consensus view on Japan: Prime Minister Abe's got his "three arrow...

The Meridian float - a reality check

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There has of course been the usual political finger-pointing going on since the just-got-it-away Meridian float. There's even some truth...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013

X marks the spot

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A wee while back I posted a graph that Treasury had prepared showing  the link between net migration and house prices . Yesterday we got the...
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Monday, 21 October 2013

We look to have our labour market arrangements broadly right

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I was browsing the Vox  ("Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists") site over the weekend and came a...

We look to have our labour market arrangements broadly right

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I was browsing the Vox  ("Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists") site over the weekend and came a...

Explaining the GFC

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I've discovered the hard way (from relatively low levels of page views) that few people want book reviews, not even economists on econom...
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Thursday, 17 October 2013

Are we as committed to free trade as we think?

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The latest print edition of the Economist has an article,  'The gated globe' , which makes the case for increased globalisation and ...