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Aug 21, 2024 | economicsnz.blogspot.com | Donal Curtin

The 35th Annual Workshop of the Competition and Policy Institute of New Zealand (CLPINZ) was held last week at the Northern Club in Auckland, and - despite breaching the universally acknowledged convention that every Kiwi conference must at some point offer sausage rolls - was otherwise a well-attended and highly interesting day and a half. Hat tip to the organisers on the Board of CLPINZ and to the indispensable Charlotte Emery at Conference Innovators.

Jul 23, 2024 | economicsnz.blogspot.com | Donal Curtin

This month's publication of the OECD's latest product market regulation indices came up with a few surprises (here are the key takeaways across all the countries surveyed, and the country note on New Zealand. Tragic regulation wonks might like to look at the questionnaire questions and the note on methodology). Overall the OECD's overall measure of product measure regulation put New Zealand essentially at the OECD average. That's not too shabby, but arguably not good enough.

Jul 7, 2024 | economicsnz.blogspot.com | Donal Curtin

Last week the New Zealand Association of Economists hosted a Commerce Commission themed session at its annual conference. It's become a fixture in the past few years, I'm pleased to say, after a drought period where industrial organisation, competition and regulation didn't quite get the focus they deserved.

Jun 19, 2024 | economicsnz.blogspot.com | Donal Curtin

This week's online seminar from Treasury had its chief economics adviser Dominick Stephens recapping the economic and fiscal outlook as laid out in the Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (the 'BEFU'). It drew a big crowd - I counted close to 330 online, and 20 or 30 or so in person - and was a well-laid-out reprise of Treasury's thinking heading into the Budget. I could have done with an update on how data since the BEFU had or had not changed Treasury's thinking.

May 29, 2024 | economicsnz.blogspot.com | Donal Curtin

“The remarkable thing about economics is that once you've been exposed to the big ideas, they begin to show up everywhere … Economics offers insight into wealth, poverty, gender relations, the environment, discrimination, politics...How could that possibly not be interesting?” - Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, 2002 "The market system is like democracy. It is the worst form of economy, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time.