Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Are you underwhelmed? I'm not

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It would be fair to say that the Commerce Commission's recent market study into the supermarkets left the commentariat distinctly under...
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Thursday, 7 October 2021

Reinventing the wheel?

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In the armoury of regulatory interventions you might reach for to fix a market problem, I'd normally rank the Part 4 regime in our Comme...
Friday, 24 September 2021

Win some, lose some

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From the outside the Commerce Commission's Fair Trading Act case against Bunnings always looked a difficult one, and I can't say tha...
Wednesday, 15 September 2021

One never knows, do one

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Yesterday the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Select Committee reported back on the Commerce Amendment Bill, and there was (at...
Wednesday, 8 September 2021

Sterny McSternface

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Something's set them off.  I've just noticed that at the end of last month the Commerce Commission came out with a stern "anti-...
Monday, 9 August 2021

The future is hybrid

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The Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand (CLPINZ) held its 32nd annual workshop in Wellington over the weekend. As is the no...
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Wednesday, 30 June 2021

What got snuck in

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We only got through Day 1 of last week's NZ Association of Economists' annual workshop before the Plague shut us down, but it was in...
Monday, 28 June 2021

So far so good. What next for fiscal policy?

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If the Plague had indeed broken out big time last week in Wellington, it would have taken out a high proportion of the country's economi...
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