I keep a bit of a watching brief on the old BERL social cost of alcohol figure. It turns up in weird places.  As aide memoire, BERL produced...

It's a weird way to cite Clemens et al 2018. NZIER's latest report for ProdComm on immigration has a box inset titled "The cas...

Otago's public health people, perhaps unsurprisingly, didn't like NZIER's take on sugar taxes. They've blogged on it here, b...

Richard Harman's Politik newsletter points to NZIER's rather scathing submission on Labour's proposed ban on overseas buyers. N...

Sugar taxes just are not effective in improving health outcomes. When we surveyed the evidence for our report, The Health of the State , we...

I don't think we can blame the consultants for this one. Normally, big big numbers in economic impact reports are a black mark on the ...

The Financial Services Council's Peter Neilson says Treasury's analysis of Kiwisaver's all wrong : Neilson said the NZIER repo...

Bill at Groping Towards Bethlehem posted today on the NZIER report on New Zealand's fiscal sustainability. This is mostly about short-...

Kiwi healthists have been busy this past week. Here's more from Doug Sellman on soft drink addiction (and other addictions): Peopl...

New Zealand, population 15 million. That's the target for 2060 in a  new NZIER working paper making the case for substantial New Zealand...

In 2009, National implemented a policy making it easier for small employers to fire workers within a 90-day trial period. Most economists wo...

NZIER has released a report on sustainability and the environment in New Zealand. Excellent. Were I teaching Econ 224 again next year, it...

The latest NZIER Insight tackles the issue of internalities. Economists traditionally count only external costs as policy relevant . Inte...