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What is the value of cycling?🍋
An avid cyclist explores the economics of cycling in New Zealand
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Geoff Simmons
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Social opportunity cost vs. social rate of time preference [part 2/2]🍋
The NZ Treasury's new approach to public-sector discount rates applied to risky projects
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Martin Lally
Social opportunity cost vs. social rate of time preference [part 1/2]🍋
The NZ Treasury's new approach to public-sector discount rates applied to risk-free projects
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Martin Lally
2B RED: From down home🍋
Reviews of books by New Zealand authors
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Grant Scobie
Has the Treasury produced a lemon?🍋
New discount rates for cost-benefit analysis
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Dieter Katz
8
Can the Budget look after itself?🍋
The Treasury’s long-term insights briefing
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Patrick Nolan
1
2B RED: Productivity isn’t everything, but …🍋
NZ agonises over its poor performance. A look to the past offers some useful ideas.
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Grant Scobie
2
Should council rates use land or capital values?🍋
Reporting back on the 11th NZAE member survey
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Dennis Wesselbaum
2
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
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Ron Crawford
4
KiwiRail myths and realities🍋
KiwiRail is failing to meet even the goals it sets for itself
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Bronwyn Howell
11
Previewing the next issue of NZEP, the research journal of the NZAE🍋
Volume 58 Issue 3 covers monetary policy, fiscal and labour policies, and the electricity sector
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James Graham
1
We need to talk about KiwiRail🍋
Despite billions “invested” by government, its financial performance continues to deteriorate
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Bronwyn Howell
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