Economics New Zealand

I spent last Thursday at the latest seminar run by Auckland University's Retirement Policy and Research Centre  (the RPRC), "Retire...

It's election year, so maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that, according to (for example) the Herald's account, there's a ...

Last week the High Court delivered its judgement in Chorus's challenge to the Commerce Commission's initial UBA pricing decision. ...

There was the usual argy bargy over the past day or two when the latest Treasury numbers showed that tax revenues in the eight months to en...

I mentioned that I hoped to get hold of an excellent infographic that James Mansell from the Ministry of Social Development had presented a...

God knows it's simple enough, but how many governments clearly show you where your tax dollars went? Yes, yes, you can find it if you re...

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

Day 2 of Statistics' User Forum was just as good as the first (which I covered yesterday ): here are my personal picks of the day. Co...