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Productivity Figures Dispel Myths
Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 4:10 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The productivity figures released by Statistics New Zealand today dispel myths about New Zealand’s productivity record”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
Labour Markets Are Not Special
Friday, 24 March 2006, 10:21 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Ideas have consequences. One body of ideas with wholly baleful consequences was the economics of Karl Marx. Although now largely defunct, it led to untold human misery in the twentieth century. More >>
Roger Kerr: Is There a Case for a Payroll Tax?
Friday, 10 March 2006, 11:53 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Recent media reports suggest the government may be considering a payroll tax as an option in its review of business taxation. It might be used to raise some or all of the revenue lost from a possible cut in the rate of company tax. More >>
NZBR Update February/March 2006
Monday, 6 March 2006, 11:43 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Modern economic thinking has moved a long way from Keynesianism. It has rehabilitated the notion that involuntary unemployment results from the failure of economies to adjust flexibly to government- or market-induced shocks. The supply side of an economy ... More >>
Bad Regulation Has Led To Unaffordable Housing
Friday, 3 March 2006, 10:21 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"Misconceived restrictions on the development of land have led to unaffordable housing”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
What's Wrong with Keynesian Economics?
Monday, 27 February 2006, 12:07 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
In a famous passage at the end of his major economic work, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood ... More >>
The Itch to Regulate Broadband
Monday, 20 February 2006, 1:52 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Last week saw two developments in the broadband debate. First, Telecom announced substantial price reductions for broadband services at faster speeds. No doubt the moves were driven by some combination of technological advances, competition, customer ... More >>
Submission on Budget Policy Statement 06 Released
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 12:08 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The Business Roundtable is calling on the government to reconsider its spending programmes and tax policy, and to adopt a more pro-growth economic strategy”, the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Roger Kerr, said today. More >>
Budget 2006: More Spending and Less Growth
Friday, 10 February 2006, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Last December the government released its latest Budget Policy Statement (BPS). It gives the government’s assessment of the medium-term outlook for the economy and outlines the broad shape of the 2006 Budget. The first striking point about the BPS ... More >>
ARC Rating Claims Exposed
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 10:17 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Auckland Regional Council's claim that the business sector benefits more than proportionately from its services has been exposed as groundless by two recent reports. The claim was the key argument for the introduction of a business differential rate. More >>
Reality Breaks Through With Axing of Carbon Tax
Friday, 27 January 2006, 11:16 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
By Roger Kerr - Mr Kerr is the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable. More >>
Working Paper on Maori Project Released
Tuesday, 24 January 2006, 5:10 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable has released the first Working Paper in a series which will form the basis of a book to be published later this year. More >>
Roger Kerr: Perspectives on Productivity
Monday, 9 January 2006, 12:57 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
A recurrent theme of economic commentary by the government and the Treasury has been that economic growth in the past decade owed much to improvements in ‘labour utilisation’ and that, with unemployment now down to low levels, future growth must depend more ... More >>
Business Roundtable Welcomes Carbon Tax Decision
Thursday, 22 December 2005, 10:39 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The government is to be complimented on its willingness to review its carbon tax policy", Rob McLeod, the chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. "New Zealand First and United Future also deserve credit for their ... More >>
Govt Spending Surges While Economic Growth Slows
Monday, 19 December 2005, 5:50 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"Ill-justified government spending is surging while exporters are being squeezed and economic growth is slowing but the government is in denial about the connection", the chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Rob McLeod, said today. More >>
Inflation Debate Going Off the Rails
Monday, 19 December 2005, 11:33 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The public debate about inflation seems at serious risk of going off the rails. Confusion abounds at several levels. More >>
Does Treasury Advice Represent Value for Money?
Friday, 2 December 2005, 11:28 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Treasury is the government’s main economic adviser. Taxpayers fund it to the tune of around $50 million a year. Are they getting value for money for this expenditure? More >>
Full Employment: Not There Yet
Friday, 18 November 2005, 1:12 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Last week Statistics New Zealand reported that the unemployment rate fell in the September quarter to 3.4 % of the labour force, a 24-year low. This is an important achievement. More >>
Treasury Advice Too Complacent about Growth
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 2:54 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The proposals in the Treasury Briefing to the Incoming Government, while useful, represent only small steps toward improving New Zealand's business environment and delivering on the goal of lifting New Zealand into the top half of the OECD", New ... More >>
Privatisation: A Third Rail?
Friday, 4 November 2005, 11:31 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Privatisation seems to be regarded as a ‘third rail’ in New Zealand politics: touch it and you’re dead. More >>
