Economics New Zealand

Monday, 29 February 2016

Is our monetary policy stance right?

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Having indulged in a little flight of fancy in my previous post about a stonking easing of monetary policy, it's time to get realistic ...
Friday, 26 February 2016

A modest proposal

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The Reserve Bank has been taking some stick recently about not getting inflation up to 2% - you have your choice of posts on Michael Reddell...
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Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Sovereign irresponsibility

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There was a fine article by Deborah Hart, the executive director of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand, in Mo...
Thursday, 11 February 2016

No appeal? Good

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I've been catching up with stuff that's happened over the summer holidays, and I have to say I was quite encouraged when I found out...
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Monday, 11 January 2016

Did we ask the right question?

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Normally I'd take time out early on, to explain some of the telco/regulation jargon, but as I suspect virtually everyone likely to read ...
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Monday, 14 December 2015

Let hard core cartels off the hook? Nah

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The reactions to the news that cartel behaviour will not, after all, be criminalised, have been all over the place. I covered the initial ...
Friday, 11 December 2015

"Hard core" cartelists are criminals

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Earlier this week the government said that it is flagging away criminalising cartels . The rationale was "the significant risk that car...
Monday, 7 December 2015

The dance of the seven veils (economist version)

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..and what I mean is, I'm going to show you a series of graphs, but I'm going to take my time baring all. Here's the first bit...
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