Friday, 28 August 2020

Three management questions

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Look, I'm an economist, and management thinking isn't normally my thing, and what do I know anyway, but from assorted encounters ove...
Tuesday, 25 August 2020

CLPINZ 2020 goes online

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Last week's Competition Law and Policy Institute (CLPINZ) workshop was - perforce - the first time CLPINZ has run the annual event onli...
Wednesday, 12 August 2020

It helps, but we'll need more than this

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No surprises in today's Monetary Policy Statement from the Reserve Bank. The official cash rate (OCR) was kept at 0.25% - as every one ...
Tuesday, 14 July 2020

The OECD's take

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Yesterday I had a go at estimating what the drop in New Zealand GDP had been during the June quarter, when the lockdowns were in place. Mean...
Monday, 13 July 2020

Another improvement

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Covid exposed, not for the first time, how New Zealand is short on timely official measures of the economic cycle.  While that's true, l...
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

It creeps ever closer

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Back in May 2014, our Productivity Commission said that "s36 [of the Commerce Act, which forbids anti-competitive abuse of market power...
Thursday, 14 May 2020

Fiscal policy does its job

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Before this Budget, just about everyone urged Grant Robertson to go for it (including me ). The big initial question was always going to be:...
Wednesday, 13 May 2020

More support in difficult times

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Highlights for me of today's Monetary Policy Statement: The official cash rate will likely be held at 0.25% "until early 2021...