Essays & research

How state capacity (or a lack of it) shaped the pandemic's outcomes🍋

Australia's Pandemic Exceptionalism, by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden, has lessons for New Zealand too

Feb 8 •

KiwiRail myths and realities🍋

KiwiRail is failing to meet even the goals it sets for itself

Dec 22, 2024 •

We need to talk about KiwiRail🍋

Despite billions “invested” by government, its financial performance continues to deteriorate

Nov 20, 2024 •

Your average wombat is probably smarter🍋

World Wombat Day gave me the excuse to review the new Apple Intelligence

Oct 28, 2024 •

Waterfront deaths & cost effectiveness redux🍋

Nominate a fellow member or New Zealand economist by 15 November 2024

Oct 26, 2024 •

Consequences of violent assaults for young victims and their parents🍋

Measuring the effects of youth crime and spillovers to parents

Oct 5, 2024 •

Regulation and productivity🍋

Is there a connection? And who cares?

Aug 31, 2024 •

People are choosing to move to warmer places🍋

In seeming contradiction to rising global temperatures

Aug 24, 2024 •

Paying peanuts for passion🍋

Underinvesting in the Social Investment Board

Aug 8, 2024 •

Public-Private Partnerships🍋

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of PPPs

Jul 31, 2024 •

The CloudStrike outage: a tale of trust & tradeoffs🍋

The internet is surprising: fragile yet hard to fix

Jul 20, 2024 •

Replication studies in economics🍋

Many journals are reluctant to publish comments & replications. Here's where to publish them

Jul 16, 2024 •

Dennis Wesselbaum

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