Economics New Zealand

There's been something quite odd happening for quite a while. Employers are saying they are having a lot of difficulty finding staff, as...

Last weekend was the latest annual workshop of the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand (CLPINZ). Wellington turned on its l...

There's an ongoing barney on social and mainstream media about what the latest poor numbers for business confidence might or might not m...

Earlier this week the LEANZ programme of Auckland seminars got a more than usually eminent speaker: Professor Sir Martin Cave, who among ma...

As any number of recent headlines will tell you, there's a bunfight going on about a slump in business confidence and a rise in unemploy...

...none for ages, then five show up together. In this case it's Section 47 investigations by the Commerce Commission, s47 being the bi...

I've been reading Linda Yueh's The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today.   It's a clever way of teaching the hist...

Today I fronted up to the Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee to speak to my submission on the proposed new 'market studies...