Economics New Zealand

The second day of the Commerce Commission's Competition Matters conference led off with Richard Feasey's keynote address on the late...

... which sounds like that's all I do with my time, but it's just a strange coincidence that two of my three must-do conferences fel...

Last week's annual conference of the NZ Association of Economists went off well - particularly the big four keynote addresses: William ...

It's a shame that MBIE's inquiry into the petrol industry was semi-botched. The commissioned report did some good stuff, but was un...

MBIE's commissioned report on petrol prices  has left everyone up in the air. The petrol companies have been sort-of fingered for profit...

I'd headed over to MBIE's website to see if that inquiry into petrol stations had come out yet - it hadn't - but by happy accid...

What's the geographical extent of a market? And why should we care? And why am I writing about it? Usually the geographical dimension ...

I'd just got off the plane from Dunedin and turned on the phone and there it was in my inbox - the press release from Jacqui Dean, the ...