Economics New Zealand

There's been quite a lot of coverage of former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke starting up a blog and a Twitter account . Someone - apologies...

Yesterday I posted about some new data that the Reserve Bank has collated on household balance sheets. It's important stuff, and unsurp...

The Reserve Bank has done everyone a big favour by coming up with improved data on households' assets and liabilities. This latest impro...

Economists sometimes get taken to task for wishing competition onto people, and there are often proponents of the idea that there are less d...

There are days when you really, really wonder about the efficiency of the financial markets. Apparently (according to the AP coverage), US...

On Tuesday the ACCC said it was minded not to allow a proposed coordination agreement between Qantas and China Eastern on the Sydney-Shangha...

Monopoly is in the air. The kiwi fruit people want more of it: the Herald 's coverage of their recent industry poll is here - where I l...

We all know that demand for housing in Auckland is high, and supply is scarce. As the Governor of the Reserve Bank put it in a speech in Fe...