Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Neutral, or too high?

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Last week the Reserve Bank came out with the latest of its Analytical Notes - a series I highly recommend. They're pitched at the intel...
Saturday, 26 September 2015

Who's been 'buying up' New Zealand?

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There's a huge interest in foreign investment in New Zealand - it's front page news when Chinese investors aren't allowed to buy...
Thursday, 24 September 2015

What competition problems have we got?

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The Commerce Commission released the second of its Consumer Issues Reports today, and it's full of interesting stuff: here's the pre...
Tuesday, 22 September 2015

A peek behind the veil of ignorance

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Last week's post about a paper that documented  the remarkable level of economic ignorance amongst New Zealand's business managers ...
Friday, 18 September 2015

Extraordinary ignorance

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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...
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Friday, 11 September 2015

Another blast from the past

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Statistics NZ's Twitter feed just posted this fun item: It has a link back to a piece that Stats published in 2012, 'Delving i...
Thursday, 10 September 2015

A defining moment?

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Last night we had the latest seminar from the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand ( LEANZ ) - AUT's Dr Lydia Cheung on "Qu...

Nothing to see here, folks, move along

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No surprises in today's Monetary Policy Statement - and that's fine: it's best if central banks don't have to make abrupt m...