Private health insurance : an expanding role in the future of health care?
March 9, 2015
Health care costs have been rising over many decades, and will continue to do so according to Treasury projections. Health care spending is taking up more and more of government spending and revenue - this cannot continue forever. In the future, there will be pressures to increase rev … Read more
Trans-Tasman relationship close, but could be closer - NZIER Inisght 50
February 25, 2015
New Zealand and Australia share many things: a tariff-free border, a free labour market, joint institutions, hosting rights to the Cricket World Cup 2015 (go the Black Caps!) and a mutual distaste for English rugby. Ahead of the 10th Australia-New Zealand Leadership Forum in Auckland … Read more
Disruption on the road ahead! How auto technology will change much more than just our commute to work
November 18, 2014
New transport technologies are transforming how we commute; creating major opportunities and risks to New Zealand's infrastructure investment Read more
Funding the world's most liveable city: the missing third leg? NZIER Insight 49
November 13, 2014
Auckland's potential will only be unlocked if investment funding can be found to deal with infrastructure bottlenecks. This Insight explores the role of private capital in funding Auckland's infrastructure. It concludes that greater effort to attract private capital through the provis … Read more
Bespoke residential housing demand and construction innovation
November 5, 2014
NZIER report to BRANZ and the Building and Construction Productivity Partnership. Read more
The power of price - NZIER Insight 48
October 30, 2014
This week Auckland Council presented two options for raising additional funding for land transport projects - introducing user-charges to use the motorway network, or increasing rates and fuel taxes. NZIER welcomes the opportunity to publicly debate road pricing. We see user-charges a … Read more
Costly investment decisions require improved population forecasts - NZIER Insight 47
August 25, 2014
Investing wisely today for the New Zealand of tomorrow requires a detailed understanding of how many people there will be and where we will work and live. Billions of dollars of infrastructure spending are at stake. Yet past estimates of New Zealand's population, on which these invest … Read more
The home affordability challenge : suite of policy reforms needed in New Zealand
July 18, 2014
Fixation with home ownership causing economic and social despair Read more
Regional economies : shape, performance and drivers
July 12, 2014
Divergence and the search for a solution Economic performance is uneven across New Zealand’s regions. For example, there are differences across household incomes, unemployment and population growth in the latest Census. Read more
The Bank of England's new approach to mortgage restrictions better targeted than LVR policy - NZIER Insight 46
July 2, 2014
Just last week Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, tightened the rules on mortgage lending in the United Kingdom. Now loans set at more than 4.5 times income can make up only 15 percent of new mortgage lending. We like this approach to financial stability because it dire … Read more