Friday, 27 March 2020

Lessons for later

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There will be lots of economic policy lessons from covid-19. One of them, I hope, will be about the coordination of fiscal and monetary poli...
Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Patrolling a fine line

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There is a growing disquiet - particularly in the US, but also elsewhere - that competition policy has got too soft on mergers, and has been...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

One Rule to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

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"Chatham House rules", said the invite, though as Chatham House itself says, "There is only one Rule", namely When a ...
Monday, 10 February 2020

The ABA goes down under

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Last Thursday's seminar in Sydney run by the American Bar Association's antitrust section was the most successful overseas seminar ...
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...