NZIER's Public Good role

NZIER is a non-profit economic research organisation. We undertake independent economic research in the interests of the public good.

These research projects are not funded by clients and are freely available on our website. We fund them ourselves and focus on the key economic issues of the day that we think the public should be debating. If it’s a hot business or policy topic, you can be sure we’re writing about it. We gauge the public interest through talking to our members to find out what’s on the minds of businesses and policy-makers.

As an independent organisation you can be sure our work is free from any political or commercial influence. Our work is designed to provoke reactions, challenge the orthodoxy and advance New Zealand’s understanding of economic challenges and opportunities.

The work ranges from our short Insight notes to our more technical papers that inform the policy and academic debate.

 As well as publishing papers, we also use  NZIER's public good fund to welcome international visitors, speak at conferences, fund the NZIER Economics Award and host high school class visits to show them how economics works in action so that they get interested in economics as a subject and possible profession.

Examples of our  Public Good work.

If you have a suggestion for public good research, please send us an email outlining your thoughts.