It sounds to me like there is some interest in NZ sbusidising its agricultural industries again (eg here and here). Now, people may be scratching their head even after looking at those links trying to figure out what I’m talking about here. No-one used the word subsidise after all and NZ has strong cross-party support …
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Oct 02 2009
Multipliers and New Zealand
In an interesting piece on Vox, Ethan Ilzetzki, Enrique G. Mendoza, and Carlos A. Vegh discuss their estimates of fiscal multipliers, and some of the reasons they differ between countries. As multipliers are often used to justify the government spending during a recession, it would be useful to note down how their results related to …
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Sep 29 2009
Freer markets, freer people?
Latest Dom Post article, any discussion will be found here. Just realised I was sort of implicitly agreeing with Sen’s capability approach. I didn’t write it with that in mind, but it was probably hanging in the back of my head. Feel free to discuss – I promise to get back to real blogging some …
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Aug 26 2009
Bank runs and TARP
This is a Hand post, but it is actually just the normal authors of the blog. We all had the same idea at the same time Over at Anti-Dismal, Paul Walker reaches the conclusion that The moral of the story, markets can deal with asymmetric information In the case of bad and good banks. He …
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Aug 24 2009
“Mobility of labour” is not a reason for favouring GST
There has been a bunch of good stuff written out there about the trade-offs between using GST and a (flat) income tax to raise government revenue. However, there is one point I think has been slightly exaggerated – the mobility argument for a lift in GST. An example of this comes from an excellent article …
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Aug 20 2009
NZ/Aussie Optimum currency area
There is a little bit of talk about a ANZAC currency I see. Lets be honest here, this effectively implies that New Zealand would be adopting the Aussie dollar. I remember arguing about this with my brother a while back, he was pro I was against. Nowadays, I’m not sure – I’d like to see …
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