Insider trading is an exceptionally challenging offence to define, prove, and enforce. New Zealand is a country especially vulnerable to this challenge, with no insider trading convictions since first regulating the offence in 1988. This paper investigates the reasons behind this, by comparing...

Central bank communication has changed dramatically over the past decade, with some central banks providing guidance about or explicit forecasts of likely future policy rates. One frequently made argument against the provision by central banks of such guidance or forecasts is that it runs the...

Using New Zealand Household Economic Survey (HES) 2018 data, we examine the impact of direct financial market participation post-retirement on retirement income in New Zealand. Our results demonstrate the importance of post-retirement financial market participation in the enhancement of...

This paper sets out how the law (being the law as at April 2019) relating to high-cost lending, is enforced. It identifies the current problems with enforcement that have been recognised in the policy papers to date, and outlines the reforms proposed in the 10 October 2018 reform package. It...

This report sets out the results of research by Victoria University of Wellington on certain key issues around debt collection in the context of lending under consumer credit contracts in New Zealand, as at date of writing (August 2019). The proposed changes to the law (in the October 2018...