Lessons from across the Tasman: Comparing the Australian and New Zealand retirement income systems - NZIER working paper 2024/01
November 7, 2024
Comparing Australia and New Zealand can provide useful lessons in many areas, and retirement income policy is no different. Read more
Supercharging CER?
October 30, 2024
CER turned 40 last year and should be celebrated. It has set the standard as the world's best practice for a free trade agreement – it has been an outrageous success. Read more
The good, the bad, and the ugly: A decisive election for trade, or is the writing already on the wall? NZIER Insight 116
October 24, 2024
The United States elections are upon us, and uncertainty prevails. The only thing certain, it seems, is the continuation of tariffs and more tariffs. None of this is good for the United States economy or the world economy since they act as a drag on all economies. Still, United States … Read more
Shadow Board is divided over a 25 or 50 basis-point cut in the OCR in October
October 7, 2024
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (Inc) Media Release, 10 am Monday, 7 October 2024 Read more
NZIER Consensus Forecasts suggest a sluggish economy for the coming year
September 16, 2024
The latest NZIER Consensus Forecasts show a further downward revision to the growth outlook for the years ending March 2025 through to March 2027. Forecasts of annual average GDP growth point to zero percent growth in the year to March 2025 before picking up to 2.2 percent in 2026. Th … Read more
Shadow Board is divided over whether the Reserve Bank should ease the OCR in August
August 12, 2024
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (Inc) Media Release, 10 am Monday, 12 August 2024 Read more
NZIER Shadow Board recommends the Reserve Bank keep the OCR at 5.50 percent in July
July 8, 2024
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (Inc) Media Release, 10 am Monday, 8 July 2024 Read more
Fit for purpose: Teachers’ own learning experiences and lessons about standardisation from the health sector - NZIER Insight 112
May 23, 2024
In this Insight, we analyse anonymised NCEA data linked to later employment for the recent cohort of primary teachers to better understand what might be driving secondary students’ falling performance in maths and science. Our results show that one in four new primary teachers failed … Read more