Growing up in Auckland? Mapping drivers of residential land growth
July 13, 2016
In this paper we decomposed growth in residential land into population growth, household size, and land use per capita. We found that the growth in residential land between 1996 and 2013 was identical to the rate of population growth: 28%. Population density has not change significant … Read more
Digital Nation New Zealand : from a tech sector to digital nation
June 28, 2016
A report for NZTech. Read more
Assessing forecast performance
June 16, 2016
The Reserve Bank today published a Bulletin article documenting the performance of the Bank’s forecasts over the period 2009 to 2015. Read more
Do you think you're better off alone? Impacts of Brexit on New Zealand - NZIER Insight 60
June 14, 2016
Recent polls suggest the chances of Brexit is a 50-50 call. This means we have to start contemplating what Brexit might mean for New Zealand. Read more
Durable policy approaches: framework development and brief literature review - NZIER public discussion paper 2016/2
June 9, 2016
NZIER, as part of its public good programme, explores important policy issues that have emerged from our economic analysis and advice. Read more
Addressing critical gaps in the government’s open data investments - a Public Good Programme study
May 27, 2016
Big data – the application of large dataset to generate new insights about how to solve complex problems – has the potential to generate transformational change. New Zealand, like other Governments, has a number of initiatives currently underway to open up New Zealand government-held … Read more
Bilateral Arbitration Treaty Regime : An economic analysis
May 26, 2016
Non-NZIER authors Metha Wongcharupan and Georgia Whelan. Read more
The road less travelled - NZIER Insight 59
May 24, 2016
The announcement that central government is prepared to fund the construction of Auckland’s City Rail Link (CRL) has, once again, placed the issue of how to pay for infrastructure onto the public policy agenda. Read more
Assessing the stock of regulation : a tool for regulatory stewards
May 20, 2016
This paper presents a new approach for systematically scanning the existing stock of a regulatory regime and identifying regulations that have a high likelihood of creating, rather than mitigating, market inefficiencies. Read more
Resetting life insurance - analysis of New Zealand market structure
May 19, 2016
NZIER report to Sovereign Insurance. Read more