Economics New Zealand

Almost seven years ago,  the Productivity Commission raised it as an issue worth looking at. MBIE put out an issues paper in 2015; submissio...

The OECD came out this week with an update to its economic outlook and a set of policy recommendations. If you've wondered how New Zeal...

... and nobody came? Which, in the competition space, is where we've got to, with our attempt to make it easier for companies to collabo...

Every economist polled before today's Monetary Policy Statement (eg here  and here ) said there'd be no change to the Official Cash...

I'm involved with a training programme for an overseas competition agency, and we've been going through the law and economics of car...

Over the summer holidays we like to blob out and read, and I've caught up with some great titles. In economics, top of the list are two ...

Last week's Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update, the HYEFU, got the usual coverage: the headline deficit, the debt profile, Treasury...

At our usual blistering pace - the Fair Trading Amendment Bill was introduced in Parliament 11 months ago, and is still with its Select Comm...