Economics New Zealand

The Reserve Bank came out with a new discussion paper last week, 'Inflation expectations and low inflation in New Zealand' . While D...

My post on how competition has been improving productivity and lowering prices in both Australia (retailing in general) and New Zealand (el...

The Reserve Bank of Australia came out with its latest Quarterly Bulletin the other day, and in it there was a fascinating article, "W...

Today's Monetary Policy Statement (here are the links to the press release , the full thing , and the webcast press conference ) went mu...

Last month I wrote about the downturn in Auckland housing consents  and wondered what was going on (and is still going on, as yesterday'...

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...