Monday, 30 April 2018

Focus on the worst

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I've been reading Auckland University lecturer Ed Willis's excellent submission on the Commerce (Criminalisation of Cartels) Amendm...
Saturday, 28 April 2018

The power of ideas

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There's a paper,  'Modelling public expenditure growth in New Zealand, 1972–2015', coming out shortly in New Zealand Economic Pa...
Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Now you see it

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You want to buy a widget. Bugsy's has the model you want, it's $6. Malone's also sells it, for $5. You may not know Malone's...
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Wednesday, 4 April 2018

Three cheers for Part 3A

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Just before Easter the Minister of Commerce Kris Faafoi announced that New Zealand is at long last going to get ‘market studies’: proactive...
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Friday, 23 March 2018

Inside the consensus

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The consensus economic forecasts collated by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (latest one here ) are a remarkably useful tool...
Thursday, 8 March 2018

Unintended consequences?

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The bill that aims to rein in non-residents buying New Zealand houses - the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill - is currently before the Fi...
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Monday, 5 March 2018

Wazzup?

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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...
Friday, 16 February 2018

Back to square one

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