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LOOSE REGULATIONS SINK ECONOMIES – AND BUILDINGS

Listener: 14 October, 2011.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation;
I have been preoccupied by leaky building syndrome, which may have damaged up to 110,000 dwellings as well as costing considerable domestic stress and even lives. Commercial and public buildings have suffered, too. There were many causes of the disaster but it illustrates the failure of [...]

14th October 2011 | Comments Closed

REAPING THE PAST

This article by John McCrone, features writer of “The Christchurch Press”, was published on 20 August in the Mainlander Section of “The Press”. It was also published by “The Dominion Post” on the same day under the title ‘Legacy of Rogernomics: Less Red Tape But More Heartache and Financial Disasters’. It is republished here because [...]

20th August 2011 | Comments Closed

CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKE TAX

Listener: May 9, 2011
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation;
John Key has shown considerable ability responding to the moods of the New Zealand public. That’s why I’m astonished by his rejection of an earthquake levy, involving a relatively small tax on income over 10 or more years to pay off the costs incurred by the [...]

9th May 2011 | Comments Closed

ALCOHOL AND RELATED STUDIES (INDEX)

Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation;

The Social Costs of Alcohol Misuse

The Regulation of Alcohol

18th September 2010 | Comments Closed

TAXING HARMFUL DRINKING

Paper for the launch of “Alcohol No Ordinary Commodity 2 ed”, 19 August, 2010.
Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation;
Executive Summary: This paper argues that the harm from the consumption of alcohol can be reduced by targeting the minimum of price of alcohol, but by using an excise drawback rather than setting a minimum price of alcohol.  [...]

19th August 2010 | Comments Closed

TAX AND EQUITY

PSA Journal, March 2010.
Keywords: Distributional Economics; Regulation & Taxation;
In my Commercialisation of New Zealand there is a chapter on ‘the abandoning of equity’, of how under Rogernomics social fairness went steadily down in the policy priorities. The report on tax reform by the Victoria University of Wellington Tax Working Group (TWG) confirms the relegation. Of [...]

1st March 2010 | Comments Closed

CRISIS POINT

We are paying a very high price for failing to regulate properly.
Listener: 20 February, 2010.
Keywords: Regulation & Taxation;
The global financial crisis is estimated to have cost the US Government US$90 billion, or about 0.6% of its annual output. The equivalent cost in New Zealand would be NZ$1.1 billion. But take a look at the cost [...]

20th February 2010 | Comments Closed

Regulatory Lessons from the Leaky Home Experience

Policy Quarterly, Vol 6, No 2, May 2010., based on a paper presented to a seminar  on 16 February, 2010.
Keywords: Regulation & Taxation;
I begin this paper with a manufacturer’s warning: that I use the term ‘regulation’ slightly differently from the way it is used in some other papers presented in this symposium, coming [...]

16th February 2010 | Comments Closed

THE COMPLETE PACKAGE

Sue Bradford’s departure leaves a huge gap in the Greens, and Parliament.
Listener: 12 December, 2009.
Keywords: Regulation & Taxation; Social Policy;
To work properly, the market must be “complete” – that is, all possible transactions must be able to be carried out. For example, those who invested in finance firms such as Bridgecorp should have been able [...]

12th December 2009 | Comments Closed

TARGETING THE MINIMUM PRICE OF ALCOHOL

This paper was prepared in October 2009 for the Law Commission when it was reviewing alcohol policy. It is released under the Official Information Act.
Keywords: Health;  Regulation & Taxation
Terms of Reference
The Law Commission has asked for a report describing how a minimum price regime for alcoholic beverages might be implemented, and what would be [...]

9th October 2009 | Comments Closed
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