Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Now you see it

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Markets need institutions to help them work properly - things like a practically enforceable rule of law, well defined property rights, and ...
Monday, 27 August 2018

A different view of productivity

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New Zealand's biggest economic problem is our low productivity by international standards. Here, for example, is a chart from an excelle...
Tuesday, 21 August 2018

A little light on a mystery

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There's been something quite odd happening for quite a while. Employers are saying they are having a lot of difficulty finding staff, as...
Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Workshop takeaways

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Last weekend was the latest annual workshop of the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand (CLPINZ). Wellington turned on its l...
Wednesday, 8 August 2018

Here's a revolutionary idea

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There's an ongoing barney on social and mainstream media about what the latest poor numbers for business confidence might or might not m...
Sunday, 5 August 2018

Have we got the same problems?

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Earlier this week the LEANZ programme of Auckland seminars got a more than usually eminent speaker: Professor Sir Martin Cave, who among ma...
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Friday, 3 August 2018

Doom and gloom? Yes and no

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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...
Wednesday, 1 August 2018

They're like buses...

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