Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Another great competition workshop

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Over the weekend in Wellington the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand put on its 27th annual workshop , and as usual it wa...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Your competition law exam question

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Question 1 (100% of marks) You are the New Zealand Commerce Commission. An application for authorisation of a merger is in front of you. ...
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Friday, 19 August 2016

Good books - August '16

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Let's start with the economics: David Evans and Richard Schmalensee, two big names in the field, have written Matchmakers: The New Econo...
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Thursday, 18 August 2016

In denial

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The first edition of the new Household Labour Force Survey came out yesterday, and there have been some strange reactions. At first I agr...
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Friday, 12 August 2016

Time to kill off an absurdity

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Today the Commerce Commission said that it is starting a study of domestic telecom backhaul services (the connections that carry your inter...
Thursday, 11 August 2016

Interesting detail from today's Monetary Policy Statement

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There is some really interesting material in today's Monetary Policy Statement  (pdf file). On the downside, there's an analysis o...
Wednesday, 10 August 2016

A million dollars doesn't go very far...

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The latest REINZ house price data are out, and to nobody's surprise they showed a hot market, with the national median price up 8.6% ov...
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Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Bonkers. Barking. With a capital B

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Auckland Council staff have been working through the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan that an independent hearings panel delivered to them las...
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