There is a relatively new blog around called the Test Pattern, that gets a few individuals together to debate specific public policy issues in written essays. The current debate on the blog is around performance pay for teachers, one such discussion around its merit (or lack of) is given by Robbie Allan here. What do …
Category Archive: New Zealand Economics
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Dec
16
2011
RBNZ December 2011 Bulletin
It’s good – and its pretty easy reading. You guys should give it a go. My main focus was on the starting paper on consumption, which just gives a basic overview of how to view total consumption in New Zealand, and then uses this framework to understand some stylized facts regarding NZ in the past …
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Dec
01
2011
On consumption in New Zealand
I’ve just been playing around on the OECD stats site to keep abreast of relevant global economic data. While I was there I decided to have a look at some ratios of consumption to gdp around the world, especially after realising how little my view on this and rebalancing in New Zealand has not changed …
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Nov
29
2011
Now that’s over
With that election thing finally out of our hair, we can focus on the fact that things aren’t looking good out there. Krugman puts up a nice illustration of how this really is the fault of the Euro. (It would help if creditors and debtors just accepted that they need to take a bit of …
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Nov
24
2011
Read Brian Fallow
Off you go. In the end it comes down to supply and demand. The Reserve Bank can only influence the demand side of the economy – and that with difficulty and a considerable lag. It can’t do anything about the supply side. But Governments can. Rather than insisting that it take employment into account when …
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Nov
18
2011
Facing the bloggers
I will be doing a free presentation to the blogsphere in Auckland on December 2, followed by a Wellington presentation on December 10. You guys have been good to me, challenging my preconceptions and helping me to develop my ideas understand (ideas was a stupid term – I never come up with anything original, I …
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