New Zealand Economic Papers

1997 - 2026

Current editor(s): Dennis Wesselbaum

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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

Volume 56, issue 3, 2022

Macroprudential policy uncertainty and implications for leaning against the wind pp. 219-234

Caitlin Davies

Does New Zealand's inflation target anchor long-term expectations? pp. 235-257

Alan King

Value and momentum in the cross section of housing market returns of New Zealand pp. 258-271

Daniel Dunstan and Jinji Hao

International migration and income distribution in New Zealand metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas pp. 272-295

Omoniyi B. Alimi, David Maré and Jacques Poot

How New Zealand migrants fare in Australia: what explains their wealth gap? pp. 296-317

Tinh Doan, Mark Holmes, Van Ha and Tuyen Tran

Rising immigration and falling native-born home ownership: a spatial econometric analysis for New Zealand pp. 318-325

Chao Li, John Gibson and Geua Boe-Gibson

The impact of upstairs trading on market quality: evidence from a highly segmented market* pp. 326-332

Jędrzej Białkowski, Sanghyun Hong and Moritz Wagner

Citation for Alan E. Bollard to mark his Distinguished Fellow award pp. 333-337

Grant M. Scobie

Citation for Suzanne Snively to mark her Distinguished Fellow award pp. 338-341

Mary Hedges

Volume 56, issue 2, 2022

Income protection in the New Zealand tax-transfer system pp. 119-125

Penny Mok and Gail Pacheco

The relationship of patenting applications and expenditure with output and real GDP in nineteenth century colonial New Zealand pp. 126-140

Matthew Gibbons and Les Oxley

Who would win from a multi-rate GST in New Zealand: evidence from a QUAIDS model* pp. 141-168

Alastair Thomas

Earnings penalty of educational mismatch: a comparison of alternative methods of assessing over-education pp. 169-194

Le Wen and Sholeh Maani

Bank size, competition, and efficiency: a post-GFC assessment of Australia and New Zealand pp. 195-217

Salah U-Din, David Tripe and M. Humayun Kabir

Volume 56, issue 1, 2022

Hard, not early: putting the New Zealand Covid-19 response in context pp. 1-8

John Gibson

Forecasting the COVID-19 epidemic: the case of New Zealand pp. 9-16

Paul Ho, Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes

Government mandated lockdowns do not reduce Covid-19 deaths: implications for evaluating the stringent New Zealand response pp. 17-28

John Gibson

Comment on ‘Government mandated lockdowns do not reduce COVID-19 deaths: implications for evaluating the stringent New Zealand response’ pp. 29-35

Shaun C. Hendy, Siouxsie Wiles, Rachelle Binny and Michael J. Plank

Rebuttal of Hendy, Wiles, Binny and Plank pp. 36-40

John Gibson

A social cost–benefit framework for COVID-19 policy decisions pp. 41-48

Dave Heatley

COVID-19, lockdown and two-sided uncertainty pp. 49-54

Benjamin Davies and Arthur Grimes

The economic risk from COVID-19 in Pacific Island countries: very few infections but lots of pain pp. 55-66

Ilan Noy, Nguyen Doan and Tauisi Taupo

The COVID-19 experience in the Fiji Islands: some lessons for crisis management for small island developing states of the Pacific region and beyond pp. 67-72

Rup Singh, Sumeet Lal, Mohsin Khan, Arvind Patel, Ronal Chand and Devendra Kumar Jain

Immediate employment and income impacts of Covid-19 in New Zealand: evidence from a survey conducted during the Alert Level 4 lockdown pp. 73-80

Michael Fletcher, Kate C. Prickett and Simon Chapple

Economic insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the Great Recession pp. 81-89

Dawnelle V. Clyne and Trenton G. Smith

Vaccinating the economy against Covid-19: ex post revenue insurance for firms and households to sustain economic confidence and aggregate demand pp. 90-97

Richard Meade

The impact of COVID-19 on changes in community mobility and variation in transport modes pp. 98-105

Le Wen, Mingyue (Selena) Sheng and Basil Sharp

Crime and mobility during the COVID-19 lockdown: a preliminary empirical exploration pp. 106-113

Lydia Cheung and Philip Gunby

Tourism sector in New Zealand – demand-side measures are necessary pp. 114-117

Martin Grancay