Oliver is the Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative. Before joining the Initiative, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, the Chief Economist at Policy Exchange in London, and an advisor in the UK House of Lords. Oliver holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business administration and a PhD in Law from Bochum University in Germany.
Oliver is available to comment on all of the Initiative’s research areas.
Submission: A New Zealand Income Insurance Scheme (2022)
Policy Essay: Effective and affordable – Why the ETS is sufficient to deal with the climate emergency (2020)
Research Note: The Unreserved Bank of New Zealand: Why unorthodox monetary policy needs boundaries (2019)
#localismNZ: Bringing power to the people (2019)
Submission: Future of Tax (2018)
Submission: Overseas Investment Amendment Bill (2018)
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Distance makes the heart grow fonder, so they say. But sometimes distance can also make you see things more clearly – not just if you are farsighted. Read more
What is the difference between Austria and Australia? Well, when the Austrians recently went to the polls to elect a new president, procedures were so flawed that their Constitutional Court told them to hold the election again. Read more
There was a whiff of Monty Python about the Brexit referendum. In Life of Brian, the People’s Front of Judea asks the famous question: “What have the Romans ever done for us?” As it turns out, very little – apart from providing Judea with sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health and peace. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to SBS Radio about Brexit (in German). Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to Larry Williams from Newstalk ZB about the implications of Brexit for New Zealand. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to ABC Radio about the fluctuating international markets following the vote for the UK to leave the European Union, and how New Zealand could benefit from offering the UK our technical expertise. Read more
The best cartoon on the Greek crisis just ran in London’s Daily Telegraph. Five identical images depict a sternly looking German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to Newshub following the Brexit results and calls on the New Zealand government to provide technical assistance to the UK as it negotiates new trade deals. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to ABC Radio about the Brexit results and the future of Europe. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to Paul Henry about Brexit ahead of Britons voting in the referendum, and makes some predictions about David Cameron's future as Prime Minister. Read more
It is midday New Zealand time, and in Britain they have just started counting the votes of their referendum on EU membership. Polling day surveys show a narrow lead for the Remain camp. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to Radio New Zealand about maths in schools, and our recent research which found that one in three New Zealand primary school teachers could not add simple fractions. Read more
Groucho Marx did not want to belong to any club that accepted people like him as members. Next Thursday, the British will have to decide if they feel the same way about the European Union. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to ABC Radio about the possibility of the UK voting to leave the European Union, following news that German government bond yields have turned into negative territory. Investors are now paying the German government to hold their money, fearing that the UK will opt for Brexit. Read more
Perhaps the defining global economic issue of this decade has been inequality. The notion that a free market economy promotes inequality is having an impact on the political climate. Read more