Economics New Zealand

Last week's Law and Economics Association of New Zealand ( LEANZ ) seminar in Auckland, 'Lessons from the Sky/Vodafone Merger (from ...

Earlier this month I posted what I hope will be my last tiki tour of some Special Housing Areas (SHAs) near our place. And at the time I sa...

There's a fair head of steam building overseas to "do something!" about the allegedly overweening market power of the FAANGs -...

It was all going so well. The Commerce Commission had pinged a whole series of real estate agencies for price fixing. The claim was that, ...

The new Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland kicked off yesterday with a public lecture by Professor John Hewson on 'T...

Almost two years ago now, I went and had a look at a Special Housing Area (SHA) that had been set up a few Ks away in Browns Bay. Oddly, th...

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

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