Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Competition improves inequality?

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There's a fascinating debate going on about whether market power makes income inequality worse or, putting it the other way round, wheth...
Friday, 27 October 2017

And never the twain shall meet*

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According to the text of the Labour/Greens confidence and supply agreement , "Auckland’s East-West motorway link will not proceed as cu...
Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Dear Kris...

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Welcome to your new role as competition czar and overlord of the Commerce Commission. It's now up to you to make sure that consumers c...
Friday, 20 October 2017

Looking for ideas?

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So we've got a new government, and lots of people have been wishing things on them. And so am I. Here's one that's well up m...
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Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Will the RBNZ hold off till late '19?

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The inflation numbers we got this morning - headline annual rate 1.9%, with tradables inflation running at 1.0% and non-tradables at 2.6% -...

How many is 'enough'?

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The ACCC has been doing a fine bit of reporting on the state of competition in various petrol markets around Australia. Its latest one , out...
Friday, 6 October 2017

They're like buses...

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...no sooner did we get a big chunk of reporting on the electricity markets on Tuesday from the Electricity Authority (which I posted abou...
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Tuesday, 3 October 2017

More, please

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The Electricity Authority has just come out with its latest annual report , and I was pleased to see it continues to report on the state of ...