Recently added articles from New Zealand Economic Papers:

Editor's introduction.

Dec 01, 2007; Chaudhuri, Ananish ... 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; Scobie, Grant M. ... 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; Hawke, Gary ... 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; Dalziel, Paul ... 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; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. ... 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; Gibson, John ... 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; Mare, David C. ... 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; Braithwaite, Faye D. ... 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; Grimes, Arthur ... 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; St John, Susan ... 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) ....