Economics New Zealand

There’s a big bunch of Budget documents handed out to the serried ranks of analysts packed into the pre-Budget ‘lock-up’ in Parliament’s Ban...

At the end of February the Commerce Commission published an interesting "look back" review of what it could learn from how its me...

Yesterday's Budget Policy Statement , the BPS, as expected, showed that the government's fiscal options are heavily hemmed in. As Je...

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

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

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

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

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...