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Media release: NZ businesses want Merkel to talk Euro Crisis, not just innovation

Wellington (13 November 2014): Angela Merkel’s talk at the University of Auckland on Germany’s innovation policy will be interesting; but what the New Zealand business community want to know is how she plans to address Europe’s economic crisis, says the head of The New Zealand Initiative. In the first visit of a German head of government to New Zealand since 1997, Merkel will meet with Prime Minister John Key ahead of the G20 Summit in Brisbane this weekend, deliver a speech at the University of Auckland, and attend a reception for German and New Zealand business leaders. Read more

13 November, 2014
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Initiative@Home with Dr Eric Crampton

Earthquakes are bad enough on their own but policy can always make them worse. Regulatory and planning policy in the lead-up to the February 2011 earthquake and in the subsequent response period led to needless deaths, too few options for those whose homes were damaged, a confusopoly in insurance, and an endlessly drawn out quest for the perfect downtown plan. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

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14 October, 2014

The strange death of liberal Germany

The elections in the state of Saxony a couple of weeks ago mark a historic shift in Germany’s political landscape. The liberal, business-friendly Free Democrat Party got kicked out of parliament, having lost two thirds of their previous voters and being left with only 3.8 percent of the vote. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

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Business Spectator
11 September, 2014

Grand Coalition the price of MMP

New Zealand has to wait another three weeks for the result of its elections, in another MMP country they went to the polls last Sunday. In the German state of Saxony, voters delivered a fractured parliament in which none of the traditional coalitions of the right or the left had a clear and robust majority. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

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The National Business Review
5 September, 2014

There's only one cure for the eurozone's terminal disease

Last week I wrote that the euro crisis was not over -- far from it (The calm before the eurozone storm, 14 August 2014). However, having just read the latest article by Wolfgang Münchau, a fellow eurozone commentator and Financial Times columnist, I have to agree with his suggestion that we should no longer call it the euro 'crisis'. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

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Business Spectator
21 August, 2014

Pianos, cows and a bit of xenophobia

A few weeks ago, while browsing pianos on TradeMe, I came across a Kawai upright with bids having just passed the reserve price of $4,000. An interested buyer had posted a public question to the seller offering to ‘buy now’ for $1,500, stating they ‘really wanted’ the piano but ‘couldn’t afford’ the minimum $4,000. Read more

Khyaati Acharya
Insights Newsletter
15 August, 2014

Let’s debate: Carrots and sticks for politicians

Economics starts with the assumption that incentives explain the choices of individuals. But would a carrot and stick approach work in parliament, an institution not always prone to making rational choices? Read more

Khyaati Acharya
Insights Newsletter
8 August, 2014

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