Economics New Zealand

Friday, 20 December 2019

Beneath the calm surface

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The Productivity Commission 's been working on 'Technological change and the future of work'. Last month it came out with the se...
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End-year bits and bobs

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We're all winding down and people's appetites for competition and regulation stuff are likely waning, but as we all head for the bea...
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Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Give that man a DB

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Everybody from blind Freddy upwards has been telling this government, and previous ones, to get on with fixing New Zealand's gross infra...
Monday, 9 December 2019

This doesn't help

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The OECD came out the other day with its latest PISA results - "the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines wha...
Thursday, 5 December 2019

Our first market study

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The petrol market study came out a short while ago, and if you haven't caught up with where it landed, the Commerce Commission has an i...
Friday, 29 November 2019

The good old days. Not

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Marilyn Waring's interesting memoir The Political Years is an eye-opener on New Zealand in the late 1970s and early 1980s. While she ha...
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Friday, 22 November 2019

RBB Economics draws a crowd

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A record number of attendees braved the smoky air of Sydney yesterday to attend RBB Economics' ninth annual competition conference. If y...
Thursday, 21 November 2019

Small mystery solved

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Here is the table from the latest Monetary Policy Statement that shows the Reserve Bank's projection for the official cash rate (the OC...
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