Maybe the reason that the Stats NZ paper/conference wasn't mention is because most of the economists that are typically interviewed in the media don't come to the annual conference (usually bank economists or consultant of some sort)?
Mostly true of bank economists I think, but the think-tanks / consultancies would have been there. And it had already been published by Stats NZ before the conference, so there was no barrier to reading it!
Maybe the reason that the Stats NZ paper/conference wasn't mention is because most of the economists that are typically interviewed in the media don't come to the annual conference (usually bank economists or consultant of some sort)?
Mostly true of bank economists I think, but the think-tanks / consultancies would have been there. And it had already been published by Stats NZ before the conference, so there was no barrier to reading it!