I hate election years.  The Commerce Act sets out penalties and remedies for various types of anticompetitive conduct. Do the anticompetitiv...

Last week over in Newsroom, I laid out the case against subsidising fuel use during a supply shortage .  That case is sufficiently obvious t...

Minister Willis announced measures opening retail grocery to greater competition.  She announced a fast-track process in which retail groce...

I've spent the last couple of days at the Competition Law and Policy Institute's annual workshop. Webb-Henderson's Lucy Wright m...

Jaw-dropping bit from the Grocery Regulator, in interview at Interest.co.nz: “What we've been told by these players is when they come an...

A few years ago, MBIE ran an inquiry into credit card interchange fees. Most of the analysis seemed predicated on an assumption that retaile...

David Harvey reports that AI scraping could wind up being part of the revised NZ Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill.  Having defined what an...

The closing of the browser tabs: The Commerce Commission blocks NZ DJ software company Serato from selling out to Japanese DJ product com...

A closing of the browser tabs: New Zealand's space industry keeps growing. Here's BusinessDesk on Dawn Aerospace . So neat.  Americ...

I like the new Commerce Commission draft market study into retail banking . Instead of spending a pile of time trying to estimate whether th...

Eight browser windows each full of tabs. Something's gotta give. Excellent quips from our Treasury Secretary in response to RBNZ pleadin...

The morning's worthies: iPredict's PredictIt gets another stay of execution Kainga Ora has been making great progress in streamlinin...

The accumulated worthies: Dave Heatley on the publicly-provided goods that should, and should not, draw user charges - and how to tell the d...

Prudential regulation requires banks to hold more capital than they would otherwise like to, so that there's less risk of default and le...

RBNZ Chief Economist Paul Conway wants a ComCom market study into banking . He's worried about 'profiteering'. But this is the f...

The Commerce Commission's final report on building materials supply recommends some patches that would make a bad situation less bad, bu...

This week's column in the Sunday Star Times picks up on last week's post on grocery entry and the new grocery regulator. It conclu...

The main potential problem in retail grocery competition, in New Zealand, is the near-impossibility of at-scale entry.  Now we have another ...