Economics New Zealand

A year ago, in the interest of making competition work, we switched our electricity supplier ( 'We take the plunge' ). And now that ...

Last weekend we had the 30th annual workshop of the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand , and to mark the CLPINZ anniversary...

By far the best single way to get unemployment down is to keep up a good run of economic growth at a robust pace. Not only does the unemploy...

There's a graph, Figure 3.8 on page 82, in the Commerce Commission's petrol market study that's puzzled me. And not for the firs...

There's a really neat bit of dataviz gone up on the Productivity Commission website, which has a go at showing different measures of the...

You'll have seen the key takeaways from the Commerce Commission's petrol market study: many fuel companies appear to be achieving...

Earlier this month, in a criminal case, the Federal Court of Australia pinged Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K-Line) A$34.5 million, the highest...

The Commerce Commission's biennial 'Competition Matters' conference has wrapped up. Here are some of my takeaways: where the ro...