Economics New Zealand

Friday, 27 December 2013

The economics of Game of Thrones

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I'm a reader, the old-fashioned kind. The house is full of books, there's a stack of unread ones beside the bed and a Unity Books lo...
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Phone line rentals are still too high

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Just before Christmas the Commerce Commission came out with its latest report (carried out for them by Teligen) which benchmarks retail pric...
Friday, 20 December 2013

Good papers from the Reserve Bank

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I like the Reserve Bank's series of ' Analytical Notes ' (you can subscribe to the Bank's e-mail update service here  if you...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Another quiz

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The Herald's Viva magazine this morning had a round-up on the past year's restaurant scene, ' The Year in Food: What we loved an...

A flight of fancy

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As I mentioned last week, I said I'd start to have a look at the submissions various parties have made to the Productivity Commission o...
Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Follow the money...

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I know I've said it before, but there really are so many business surveys around these days that even dedicated economy-watchers can...
Thursday, 12 December 2013

No surprises from the Bank

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I'll summarise quickly because the media and the bank economists are already all over it, but the guts of this morning's Monetary Po...

When regulation moves the market

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There was quite a useful series of answers to questions in Parliament yesterday - I'm tempted to add, "for a change" - when B...
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