Recently added articles from New Zealand Economic Papers:
Editor's introduction.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Kia ora. In January, 2009 the New Zealand Economic Papers will enter a new era. The New Zealand Association of Economists has entered into a contract with the international publishers Taylor and Francis (owner of the Routledge imprint among others), who will take over the publication of ...
Research output in New Zealand economics departments 2000-2006: a stock approach.
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction In this paper we utilize the stock approach to explore the research productivity of New Zealand's university-based economics departments over the period 2000 to 2006. In doing so, we examine research output across departments and among individual researchers. Our ...
Agricultural research: implications for productivity in New Zealand and Australia.
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction There is renewed interest on both sides of the Tasman about the contribution of research and other elements of science policy to productivity growth in agriculture, as a source of economic growth and higher living standards for farmers, processors and consumers ...
Governments at the bidding table.(Policy Watch)
Dec 01, 2008; ... "New Zealand needs to attract more and better quality foreign direct investment. [ ...] The above suggests a clear role for government to [ ...] attract investment with desirable characteristics through guaranteed access to government services and, where necessary, incentives that are ...
A report on the 2008 Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association of Economists, Wellington, July 9-11, 2008.
Dec 01, 2008; ... This year's conference was a combined effort by NZAE and the Econometric Society (Australasian region). It marked the 50th anniversary of the publication in Economica of Bill Phillips' paper on what came to be known as the "Phillips Curve". (3) The conference, Markets and Models: Policy ...
A conversation with Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1995.(Interview)
Jun 01, 2008; ... Professor Robert E. Lucas, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995, was a keynote speaker at the Southern Workshop in Macroeconomics, organized by the Department of Economics,University of Auckland Business School, between March 28 and 30, 2008. Ian P. King, a member of the ...
The impact of recent changes in family assistance on partnering and women's employment in New Zealand.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Recently enacted changes in Family Assistance, by offering more generous benefits to families, are expected to reduce child poverty by one-third (MSD 2006). As side effects, the changes alter the relevant benefit of both partnering (marriage or cohabitation) and ...
The value of a view: a spatial hedonic analysis.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction Residential properties are valued for their physical, locational, neighbourhood and environmental attributes. A scenic view is an environmental amenity that affects the value of a residential property. Evidence from previous studies suggests that a view can add ...
The New Zealand implied volatility index.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction In 1993, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) was the first exchange to introduce an implied volatility index, called the VIX. Based on a weighted average of implied volatilities of the S&P100 Index call and put options, the VIX was designed to be a measure ...
New Zealand's 'love affair' with houses and cars.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction Twice in the last decade there have been surges in the demand for property in New Zealand. An important part of these demands has been that for owner occupied housing. This has occurred in a generally buoyant economic environment since the early 1990's as the ...
Editor's introduction.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Kia Ora. Regular readers of the journal will immediately notice a number of changes. First of all, we have a newly appointed Board of Editors. Joining this editorial board are a number of renowned economists including Vincent Crawford of the University of California-San Diego, Ian P. King ...
Donald T Brash--Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
Dec 01, 2007; ... There can only be the barest handful of New Zealand economists who have had a career that is both as distinguished and varied as that of Don Brash. His career has spanned that of a research economist, an international bureaucrat, an orchardist, a corporate chief executive, a company ...
John D. Gould--Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
Dec 01, 2007; ... John Gould brought a new professionalism to the study and promotion of economic history in New Zealand. The New Zealand university economics curriculum had long had a component of economic history, and New Zealand economists in the first half of the twentieth century made serious and ...
Bruce Ross--Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
Dec 01, 2007; ... The New Zealand Association of Economists is delighted to honour the many distinguished contributions made by Professor Bruce Jerome Ross, CNZM, over his long career as a research economist, policy advisor and chief executive. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Born in Dunedin ...
Pushing the boundaries of immigration research: what can we learn from New Zealand?(Symposium: Microeconomic Analyses of Migration into New Zealand)
Dec 01, 2007; ... 1. Introduction For almost thirty years, economists have been concerned with measuring the rate of economic assimilation amongst different immigrant groups. Economic assimilation has come to mean the closure over time of any earnings gap between immigrant and native workers with ...
What explains the wealth gap between immigrants and the New Zealand born? *.(Symposium: Microeconomic Analyses of Migration into New Zealand)(Table)
Dec 01, 2007; ... 1. Introduction New Zealand has a large foreign-born population with almost one quarter of residents born abroad. In other countries, immigrants are often found to have less wealth and to hold it in different forms than the native born (Cobb-Clark and Hildebrand 2006a). These ...
Settlement patterns and the geographic mobility of recent migrants to New Zealand *.(Symposium: Microeconomic Analyses of Migration into New Zealand)(Table)
Dec 01, 2007; ... 1. Introduction Twenty-three percent of New Zealand's population is foreign-born and forty percent of migrants have arrived in the past ten years. Newly arriving migrants tend to settle in spatially concentrated areas and this is especially true in New Zealand. For example, ...
Safe as houses: investor confidence in New Zealand *.(Table)
Dec 01, 2007; ... 1. Introduction Recent years have seen a boom in housing prices in many industrialised countries (e.g. Campbell, Davis, Gallin and Morris, 2006). New Zealand has been no exception. There has been increased investment in New Zealand residential property, rapidly increasing ...
Trans-Tasman shocks: a mediating role for the NZDAUD *.(New Zealand dollar / Australian dollar )
Dec 01, 2007; ... 1. Introduction Several studies have examined aspects of trans-Tasman currency union. A recent review (Hunt, 2005) updates "the ongoing debate as to whether New Zealand should enter into a currency union with Australia" concluding that "the implications of this research remain ...
KiwiSaver and the tax treatment of retirement saving in NZ.(Policy Watch)
Dec 01, 2007; ... 1. Introduction For nearly twenty years, New Zealand adhered to the principle of tax neutrality for private saving. Tax concessions for retirement saving had been removed between 1988 and 1990, along with other wide ranging reforms to the tax system (St John & Ashton 1993) ....