New Zealand Economic Papers

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Dennis Wesselbaum

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Volume 59, issue 1, 2025

Introduction to the special issue on ‘Development Economics: Evolution and New Horizons' pp. 1-2

Asha Sundaram and Dennis Wesselbaum

Twenty-first century insights into economic development: cultural roots of cognition pp. 3-10

Allison Demeritt and Karla Hoff

Economic development reloaded: the AI revolution in developing nations pp. 11-17

Asha Sundaram and Dennis Wesselbaum

Keeping your butter safe: groundwork for a new measure of development pp. 18-23

Kaushik Basu

Is there still a role for direct government support to firms in developing countries? pp. 24-29

David McKenzie

Improving children’s learning in developing countries: what works and what doesn’t pp. 30-34

Anjali Chandra and Subha Mani

A practitioner's guide to estimate overland transportation costs pp. 35-40

A. Kerem Coşar

Migration, climate change and the futures of global population redistribution pp. 41-45

Ronald Skeldon

Climate change, vulnerability and well-being in the Pacific region pp. 46-50

Rukmani Gounder

Volume 58, issue 3, 2024

Notice of duplicate publication: ‘A practitioner's guide to estimate overland transportation costs*’ pp. (i)-(i)

The Editors

Monetary policy independence in an era of financial globalization: what theory suggests and the data in Oceania say pp. 207-215

Alfred V. Guender

Coordination of monetary and macroprudential policies, land finance behavior and risk prevention in the real estate market pp. 216-242

Yue Song and Yu Zhang

New Zealand’s lauded fiscal legislation: has it reduced fiscal uncertainty? pp. 243-260

Michael Ryan and Mark Holmes

The Employment Contracts Act 1991 and the labour share of income in New Zealand: an analysis of labour market trends 1939–2023 pp. 261-287

Ivo Bertram and Bill Rosenberg

Retail electricity prices in New Zealand: recent trends and the relationship to market shares pp. 288-298

Peter Gibbard and Cameron Grubb

Scale efficiency gains in utilities? The case of electricity distribution in New Zealand* pp. 299-308

Tom Stannard and Philip Barry

Volume 58, issue 2, 2024

The performance based research fund in New Zealand: taking stock and looking forward pp. 107-125

Robert Buckle and John Creedy

Decarbonization in New Zealand – where and how: a combination of input–output approach and structural decomposition analysis pp. 126-146

Le Wen, Fengtao Guang, Yiqing Wang and Basil Sharp

The effect of school zone on housing prices: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in New Zealand pp. 147-178

Peng Sun, Tom Coupé and Jeremy Clark

Schooling opportunities for 5-year-olds: some early origins of high school achievement pp. 179-196

Asaad Ismail Ali and Andrea Kutinova Menclova

Climate worry reduces farmer well-being pp. 197-202

Zack Dorner, Jorie Knook, Te Rehia Ratu and Philip Stahlmann-Brown

Reflections of a former editor pp. 203-205

Dennis Wesselbaum

Volume 58, issue 1, 2024

Community-level ethnic diversity and community-level socio-economic development: evidence from 20 African countries pp. 1-19

David Fielding

Love thy neighbours or do ethnic neighbourhood qualities matter? Ethnic price differentials in a multi-ethnic housing market pp. 20-39

Ka Shing Cheung, Chung Yim Yiu and Betty Peiying Lin

The wage cost of a lack of access to affordable childcare in Aotearoa New Zealand pp. 40-73

Thomas Benison and Isabelle Sin

Differences between NZ and U.S. individual investor sentiment: more noise or more information? pp. 74-86

Jędrzej Białkowski, Moritz Wagner and Xiaopeng Wei

Does the RBNZ respond to exchange rate fluctuations? pp. 87-94

Thomas van Florenstein Mulder and Dennis Wesselbaum

Cumulative excess deaths in New Zealand in the COVID-19 era: biases from ignoring changes in population growth rates pp. 95-106

John Gibson

Volume 57, issue 3, 2023

Sustainable consumption growth: New Zealand’s surprising performance pp. 199-213

Arthur Grimes and Shine Wu

What drives the productivity growth of New Zealand district health boards: technology, efficiency, or scale? pp. 214-228

Antony Andrews and Grigorios Emvalomatis

An analysis of operating profit margin: a valuable tool for New Zealand dairy farmers pp. 229-246

Robbie Maris and Zack Dorner

Loss aversion or hand-to-mouth behaviour in private consumption models pp. 247-259

Nikeel Nishkar Kumar, Arvind Patel, Navneel Shalendra Prasad and Shayal Nandani

Citation for Bob Buckle to mark his Distinguished Fellow Award pp. 260-262

Viv Hall

Distinguished fellow lecture: monetary policy and the benefits and limits of central bank independence pp. 263-289

Robert Buckle

Volume 57, issue 2, 2023

Introduction to the special issue on agriculture in New Zealand and the Pacific: challenges and opportunities pp. 77-77

Dennis Wesselbaum

Strengthening the role of blue foods in coastal Pacific food systems pp. 78-86

Colette C.C. Wabnitz, Rosamond L. Naylor, Neville Smith, Alisi Tuqa and Jim Leape

Giving waterways groups a role in regional freshwater policy pp. 87-92

Viktoria Kahui

He taonga te kai – an Aotearoa where food is valued not wasted pp. 93-98

Miranda Mirosa

The role of agriculture in the development process in the Pacific pp. 99-104

John Gibson

Policy interventions for scaling up agroforestry in Fiji pp. 105-113

Shipra Shah

How sustainable is the growth of assistance to Fijian sugar producers? pp. 114-118

Kym Anderson

Transition to sustainable agriculture in New Zealand: challenges and the way forward pp. 119-124

Wanglin Ma, Puneet Vatsa and Kathryn Bicknell

The importance of biosecurity and animal welfare to livestock industries in New Zealand pp. 125-132

Matthew Stone

Resilience is a meaningful, measurable trait of communities pp. 133-138

William Kaye-Blake

What is the role of biodiversity in mediating the effects of climate change on New Zealand’s future agroecosystems? pp. 139-143

Bradley Case, David Hall, Nicola Day, Syrie Hermans and Hannah Buckley

Advancing primary sector adaptation in Aotearoa New Zealand pp. 144-148

Anita Wreford

Navigating the rapids of agrifood systems transformation: reflections on Aotearoa New Zealand’s emerging mission-oriented agrifood innovation system pp. 149-163

Laurens Klerkx, James Turner and Helen Percy

Policy approaches for enhanced dairy sector innovation – a review of future pathways and policies for effective implementation of digital agriculture pp. 164-171

C. R. Eastwood, J. Knook, J. A. Turner and Alan Renwick

Realising the promises of agricultural big data through a Māori Data Sovereignty approach pp. 172-178

Karaitiana Taiuru, Karly Burch and Susanna Finlay-Smits

Climate policy insights from an open-source economy-wide model pp. 179-183

Niven Winchester

Valuing over-winter colony losses for New Zealand’s commercial beekeepers pp. 184-190

Philip Stahlmann-Brown, Richard J. Hall, Rex Butt, Brian McCall, Gabriel Torres and Tony Wright

How behavioural and experimental economics can contribute to agricultural policy with an application to agri-emissions pricing pp. 191-197

Zack Dorner

Volume 57, issue 1, 2023

Do consumers actually monitor the inflation rate? Evidence from New Zealand* pp. 1-8

Bernd Hayo and Florian Neumeier

A note on KiwiSaver and migrants on temporary visas pp. 9-17

Lisa Meehan, Livvy Mitchell and Gail Pacheco

Mortality comparisons and age: a new mortality curve pp. 18-30

John Creedy and S. Subramanian

Public misunderstanding of pivotal COVID-19 vaccine trials may contribute to New Zealand’s adoption of a costly and economically inefficient vaccine mandate pp. 31-40

John Gibson

(Almost) everything you wanted to know about the history of the theory of production/the firm: but were afraid (too bored) to ask pp. 41-60

Paul Walker

What would happen if people could choose automatically increasing KiwiSaver contributions? pp. 61-75

Brodie Hobbs and Jan Feld