Economics New Zealand

The NZME/Fairfax Court of Appeal judgement is out and contained few surprises. The Court had been widely anticipated to rebuff the appeal...

...and in the interests of scientific inquiry our household has a go at changing electricity retailers. Time, in short, to stop being the ...

Last week MBIE published the first report of the Electricity Price Review - you can find it and its supporting documents here . If it's ...

From overseas I've caught up with the news that the Telecommunications Commissioner Dr Stephen Gale has decided not to deregulate the m...

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

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

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...