Economics New Zealand

This month's publication of the OECD's latest product market regulation indices came up with a few surprises (here are the key takea...

Last week the New Zealand Association of Economists hosted a Commerce Commission themed session at its annual conference. It's become a ...

This week's online seminar from Treasury had its chief economics adviser Dominick Stephens recapping the economic and fiscal outlook as...

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...