Economics New Zealand

First we were going to criminalise cartels - the main effect being that business executives could go to jail. That was back in October 2011 ...

For a moment, watching the webcast, I thought there were going to be no questions at all at the Reserve Bank's press conference last Thu...

Brining turkeys, looking after Christmas guests, and wrapping up the last bits of the year's consultancy work have eaten up my time, but...

Now that we've got the full decision in NZME/Fairfax , what can we take from it? Apart from some admiration for the combined writing sty...

Back in June I wrote a piece - 'Howzat!?' - on the likely outcome of the two appeals against Commerce Commission decisions that wer...

Today's well-attended Government Economics Network (GEN) conference  in Wellington on the theme, "Responding to Global Challenges...

Last week's RBB Economics conference in Sydney lived up to its six excellent predecessors (write-ups of last year's: keynote addres...

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