Reforming the controversial policyExecutive summary:By 2020 the EU is planning to increase expenditure on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by some €8billion a year at a time of catastrophically bad public finances.Despite the concern about pressure on food prices, reform of the CAP will...

This essay reviews recent developments related to economic integration after Covid-19, including European Union's trade agreements in Australasia amidst new global geopolitical risks, and European integration and foreign direct investment after Covid-19. The essay concludes that in a...

This paper considers the role of fiscal policy in New Zealand's macroeconomic stabilisation. New Zealand's macroeconomic framework is characterised by an institutional arrangement whereby monetary policy has the primary responsibility for macroeconomic stabilisation. In contrast, fiscal policy...