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Publications

  1. FEATURE: A 'Regulatory Constitution' for New Zealand

    Roger Kerr | 17 Jun 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    New Zealand is analysing the potential and prospects of a Regulatory Responsibility Act.

  2. Superseding MMP: Real Electoral Reform for New Zealand

    Luke Malpass & Oliver Marc Hartwich | 16 Mar 2010 | Policy Monographs

    New Zealanders need to seize the opportunity of the upcoming referendum on electoral reform and reinvent their system of... Read More...

  3. KiwiRail: Doomed to Fail?

    Luke Malpass | 10 Sep 2009 | Issue Analysis

    Government ownership cannot and will not ‘fix’ rail in New Zealand.  Luke Malpass argues that one year after the renationalisation,... Read More...

  4. Supersize New Zealand : A Collection of Essays on How to Improve New Zealand's Public Policy

    Luke Malpass | 09 Sep 2009 | Policy Forum

    This collection of essays from the Centre for Independent Studies show that increased regulation and expenditure have put... Read More...

  5. Ending No. 8 Wire Welfare: Why New Zealand is lagging behind

    Luke Malpass | 02 Apr 2009 | Issue Analysis

    The government’s welfare policy is moving in the right direction and a recession is a good time to reform the welfare... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Little John shows Kevin how it's done

    Luke Malpass | 04 Jun 2010 | The Australian

    Soon after John Key was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand in late 2008, he visited Kevin Rudd. The Australian Prime Minister ... Read More

  2. MMP struggles in Germany, now it struggles here

    Luke Malpass & Oliver Marc Hartwich | 26 Mar 2010 | The National Business Review

    MMP in Germany suffers the same problems as MMP in New Zealand and New Zealand should learn from this.... Read More

  3. The high price of subsidies

    Luke Malpass | 14 Feb 2010 | Sunday Star-Times

    Like virtually all industry assistance schemes, the feel-good factor of the New Zealand government’s subsidy to the makers ... Read More

  4. Abandoning inflation control in New Zealand is a recipe for disaster

    Stephen Kirchner | 21 Dec 2009 | The Dominion Post

    Twenty years after introducing inflation targeting in 1989 and revolutionising central bank governance that was to sweep ... Read More

  5. Hostility to aspiration and the tall poppy syndrome hold New Zealand back

    Luke Malpass | 13 Dec 2009 | The Sunday Star Times

    In last week’s Sunday Star Times, Rod Oram dubiously claims the 2025 Taskforce's analysis is inaccurate, lazy and shallow, ... Read More

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