8 blog posts found
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MEI Special Topic: Recent Trends in New Zealand’s Productivity
Posted: 2 Jul 2019Productivity measures how efficiently production inputs, such as labour and capital, are used in an economy to produce outputs, or goods or services. Productivity growth is a key driver of incomes... -
The measurement of New Zealand's productivity and capital
Posted: 14 Aug 2018Topic: Capital, Economic growth, Households, Human capital, International investment, Living standards framework, Natural capital, Performance measurement, Physical/financial capital, Productivity, Social capital, Standard of living, Statistics, Technological changeAuthor:"The magic bus meets the little yellow digger" – reflections on the measurement of New Zealand's productivity and capital Back in 1996 I wrote an internal paper on New Zealand's productivity... -
New Zealand on top of the world for ease of doing business
Posted: 15 Mar 2017Author:New Zealand always ranks highly in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business report. This year, we have come out first. What has brought about this change? Have we still got room for improvement?... -
How to get an export take-off?
Posted: 21 Sep 2016Topic: Capital, Consumption, Economic conditions, Economic growth, Economic integration, Exports, Fiscal policy, Foreign exchange, International investment, Macroeconomics, Monetary policy, Productivity, Savings, Technological change, TradeAuthor:The New Zealand Government is targeting an increase in the ratio of real exports to GDP to 40 percent by 2025. To shed some light on what drives these transitions we looked at episodes to... -
Economic impacts of foreign direct investment
Posted: 16 Aug 2016Topic: Capital, Capital movements, Economic growth, Income, Innovation, International finance, International investment, Investment, National accounts, Productivity, Risk management, Savings, Skilled workersAuthor:In October 2015 the Government published a report, International Investment for Growth, which sets out the benefits of foreign investment for New Zealand. The analysis in this article informed... -
Dividends from Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy and Genesis Energy: part 2 of 3
Posted: 15 Jun 2016Topic: Capital, Electricity, Financial markets, Government shareholding, Industry, Investment, Prices, Risk management, Shares, State owned enterprises, TaxationAuthor:In part 1, I showed that the dividends from the three electricity companies had significantly increased around the time that 49% of their shares were sold to investors, and the companies were listed... -
Dividends from Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy and Genesis Energy: part 1 of 3
Posted: 14 Jun 2016Topic: Capital, Electricity, Financial markets, Government shareholding, Industry, Investment, Shares, State owned enterprisesAuthor:There was some public discussion earlier this year of dividends from the majority government-owned electricity companies Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy and Genesis Energy. In this article I will... -
Chinese-New Zealand investment flows
Posted: 4 May 2016Topic: Assets, Banks, Capital, Capital movements, Economic integration, Exports, Financial markets, International finance, International investment, Investment, ProtectionismAuthor:Modelling an illustrative scenario of Chinese capital market liberalisation suggests Chinese-NZ investment flows will increase significantly over the next few decades and most of the increase in...