Clyde Dam (privatised by the Government in 1999 and now owned by Contact Energy) on the Clutha River (2001)©
For New Zealand financial market information:
ASB BANK - see Economic Reports
Westpac - for Economic Updates
New Zealand Exchange (NZX) - provides the latest prices
Also of interest is sharechat.co.nz
Most companies listed on the NZX have good web sites. Formerly one of the largest companies listed, Brierley Investments has sold its remaining small shareholding in Air New Zealand and changed its name. The airline itself is also listed. From 1982 until 1986 I was an active investor through the NZSE. In 2004 I sold my remaining shares but in 2016 inherited shares in Fletcher Building.
Consumer Online provides useful information on electricity prices and bank fees.
The key government economic agencies:
The New Zealand Treasury - where I worked as Assistant Director, Communications from 1989 to 1996
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - the central bank
The New Zealand Commerce Commission - responsible for implementing competition law
Statistics New Zealand - provides a wide range of data, including the monthly External Migration series
Some useful international financial market news sites include:
MarketWatch - from Dow Jones
FINVIZ.com - for stock market maps
Oanda.com - for foreign currency data
Sources for cross-country data comparisons include:
IMD World Competitiveness On-line from Switzerland gives relative rankings between major economies
Worldmapper from the UK has a comprehensive and growing set of cartograms - data for individual countries is given by resizing territories
NationMaster allows statistical comparisons between countries
Gapminder from Sweden
The Atlas of Economic Complexity NEW from Harvard
Penn World Table - University of Groningen
The American Economic Association (AEA) makes the Journal of Economic Perspectives available free online and provides links to Resources for economists.
The EconTalk podcasts produced by Russ Roberts are well worth listening to.
A useful source for WWW economics commentary was Economics Roundtable (with links to weblogs) from the USA.
I have a list of economics-related weblogs on the right-hand side of my own weblog.
Some homepages of interest include:
VOXEU - from the Centre for Economic Policy Research
Tim Harford - from the Financial Times
David Smith - from the Sunday Times
Brad DeLong - from Berkeley
Hal Varian - from Berkeley
Jan Brueckner - from UC-Irvine
Peter Forsyth - from Monash
Severin Borenstein - from Berkeley
Danny Quah - from NUS
In 1995 I completed a couple of extramural Economics papers at the then School of Applied and International Economics at Massey University.
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Last updated on 9 September 2025