Economics New Zealand

The consensus economic forecasts collated by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (latest one here ) are a remarkably useful tool...

The bill that aims to rein in non-residents buying New Zealand houses - the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill - is currently before the Fi...

For a while there, it looked as if the dairy sector was going to be one of the quieter stretches of the regulatory front line: our regulator...

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...