Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Keep up the stimulus

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Last week I was making the point that one of the key things to look for in the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update or PREFU was whether...
Friday, 18 September 2020

The most important bit

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Every year we get Treasury's economic and fiscal updates - the latest, the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update or PREFU on Wednesda...
Tuesday, 8 September 2020

An excellent resource

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Interested in staying up with Australia's criminalisation of cartels, and New Zealand's impending move to do the same? Then head ove...
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Friday, 4 September 2020

It's not every day ...

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 ... you get to listen to a Nobel prize winning economist, so big shout out to the University of Auckland for its Dean's Distinguished V...
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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...