Economics New Zealand

Monday, 26 November 2018

The wheels are back on

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"The goss", I said a while back , "is that the Commission stands a good chance of having Lodge overturned in the Court of Ap...
Thursday, 22 November 2018

Double or quits?

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Last month Australia's High Court told Japanese company Yazaki that no, it couldn't appeal against the record A$46 million cartel fi...
Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Two sides to the story

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You might think the ugly process of nominating US Supreme Court judges and the predictably  5 - 4 conservative/liberal votes in many of the ...
Thursday, 11 October 2018

I've tried to stop...

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...writing any more posts about market studies, but events have intervened. The government announced that it's going to fast track the C...

At the petrol pump

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You don't - for good reason - get much of a chance to quote reams of facts on the radio. So for those of you who were listening to my st...
Tuesday, 2 October 2018

A good follow-up

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The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research has followed up on an idea I threw out here in August, suggesting that somebody ought to a...
Monday, 1 October 2018

What do devaluations achieve?

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Perhaps unwisely, over the week-end I queried a bit of logic I saw on Twitter which had argued that a lower domestic currency makes a trade ...
Thursday, 27 September 2018

As expected

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The NZME/Fairfax Court of Appeal judgement is out and contained few surprises. The Court had been widely anticipated to rebuff the appeal...
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Competition and regulation economist (12 years on NZ's Commerce Commission). Macroeconomist (former chief economist for a big bank). Writer (6 years with Euromoney, award-winning economics columnist, blogger). My economics consultancy is based in Auckland: call me (021 479462) if you need expert advice on competition, regulation, or business economics
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