Oh the tabs.  Chris Quin is CE of Foodstuffs North Island. His chat with Morning Report on what they've been doing to get groceries thro...

The past week's hooplah over ticket scalping missed what I think's the most fun problem in the whole mess. How do you, as a third...

I wrote , in opposition to the former Labour government's legislation, initiated by Trevor Mallard, banning ticket scalping for the Rugb...

CBC Vancouver interviewed me last week about prices and ticket scalping; the resulting feature aired Monday morning and is here . The CBC us...

Further evidence that artists are now taking the rents from ticket scalping: Katy Perry's contracts specify that if the venue uses a se...

I'm scheduled for Martin Devlin's show on Radio Live this afternoon to talk ticket scalping. If the econ department had ever had a ...

Niko Kloeten cites me in defence of ticket scalping over at the National Business Review. Rugby World Cup ticket scalpers are being used as...

The Christchurch Metallica show sold out in 21 minutes. It was, by reports , awesome. Nothing from St. Anger, minimal from Black album, l...

The New Zealand Minister for the Rugby World Cup (yes, such a portfolio exists) apparently reckons that tourists to New Zealand during the R...

We've puzzled here at Offsetting about ticket scalping for rather some time. Porter and Thomas in the latest Southern Economic Journa...

I'd previously noted the sad case of Janet Moses, drowned by her family in a ritual exorcism. The jury verdicts are now in : one uncle...

In my Assorted Links post, I noted some features of ticketing for the Wagner festival at Bayreuth. I've been thinking on it a bit more ...

The Washington Post and New York Times have picked up on the biofuels tax credit story first reported on by Chris Hayes at The Nation (an...

I warned that crises are fuel for both poles. Richard Metzger at BoingBoing cries Marx was right! . I see this as a test between Naiomi Kl...

Economists have for some time been trying to figure out why concerts are priced below market clearing. Surely the artist does better by hav...