Economics New Zealand

There was good news today about the volume of new housing consents in Auckland: as Stats pointed out in the release , "Monthly building...

There's a quip you sometimes hear in the competition game: why do countries have only one Monopolies Commission? Now that the tears of...

On Tuesday evening Harshal Chitale, senior economist in Auckland's Chief Economist Unit, spoke at the latest LEANZ seminar on 'Fund...

This year's Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand annual workshop is coming up on Saturday October 14 in Auckland. It...

Housing is understandably high on the political agenda at the moment. But amidst all the blame-seeking and potential policy responses, one o...

Motu 's recent paper 'What drives the gender gap' , has rightly got a lot of attention: full marks to its authors Isabelle Sin, ...

A reader who'd liked my post the other day on The Shipping News  pointed me towards something I'd forgotten (or possibly missed at t...

Yesterday  the Cabinet paper on what to do in the light of MBIE's targeted review of the Commerce Act went up on MBIE's website. ...