Economics New Zealand

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Inflation and the output gap

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Yesterday's Monetary Policy Statement from the Reserve Bank said (eg at p ii) that "a sustained decline in capacity pressures in t...
Thursday, 22 February 2024

The New Zealand Economic Forum - Day 2

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We kicked off Day 2 with a keynote speech, "The monetary policy remit and two percent inflation", by Adrian Orr, governor of the R...
Wednesday, 21 February 2024

The New Zealand Economic Forum - Day 1

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The University of Waikato's New Zealand Economic Forum 2024 , on the theme of 'A briefing to the incoming government', kicked of...
Thursday, 21 December 2023

The clock ran out

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This week's 'mini Budget' was certainly down the minier end of mini, and understandably so. While I sympathise with a bias for a...
Friday, 1 December 2023

Competition and the coalition of chaos

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Sounds like a Harry Potter movie doesn't it, and I couldn't resist using it as a title even though, for all the critical "coali...
Thursday, 7 September 2023

Here we go again

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On August 23 the Aussie Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers in a joint release with the Assistant Minister for Competition Dr Andrew Leigh announced ...
Thursday, 31 August 2023

Coordinating in the dark

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While laid up at home with a very belated case of Covid - we're okay, thanks for asking - I thought I'd use the downtime to read the...
Wednesday, 23 August 2023

CLPINZ 2023

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 After a rapid scramble to reorganise the schedule following the last minute loss of the planned keynote speaker, the 34th annual workshop o...
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