Economics New Zealand

The Commerce Commission's latest annual report on the state of our telco markets came out last week. At the time I was too busy on othe...

My post yesterday about the Budget concentrated on what I thought were some of the key higher level issues. But perforce you can't cove...

First thing I'd say about today's Budget is that I hope the central economic forecasts work out as expected. If we do indeed get ann...

Here's a rather worrying graph. It's the number of consents each month for new dwelling units in the Auckland region, on a 'tren...

Every now and then (my last one was here ) I've counselled folks to have a bit of forbearance when it comes to getting stuck into financ...

The decision is out and it's pretty much as outsiders would have picked (and I should add I'm an outsider, not having advised any o...

Last night's LEANZ seminar, 'An Insider's Reflections on Merger Clearances', was a cracker. David Blacktop, the Commerce Co...

Yesterday I wrote about Statistics NZ's day seminar on the Household Labour Force Survey . Here are links to the papers I mentioned. S...