Economics

New Zealand Market Data

For New Zealand financial market information:

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.

New Zealand Government

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

• Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment 

• 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

International Data

Some useful international financial market news sites include:

Sources for cross-country data comparisons include:

• IMD World Competitiveness On-line from Switzerland gives relative rankings between major economies

• World Economic Forum 

• 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

• UN Service Trade statistics database  

• The Observatory of Economic Complexity from MIT

• The Atlas of Economic Complexity NEW from Harvard

• ChartsBin 

• Penn World Table - University of Groningen 

International Organisations

Academic and Media

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:

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