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21_05: Of interest? Estimating the average interest rate on debt across firms and over time

Richard Fabling

21_04: Permanent forest investment in a climate of uncertainty

Arthur Grimes and Sandra Cortés Acosta

21_03: Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and practice in the 21st century

David Maré and Dean Hyslop

21_02: Covid-19 wage subsidy support and effects

David Maré and Dean Hyslop

21_01: Living on the edge: An anatomy of New Zealand’s most productive firms

Richard Fabling

20_14: A Growing Problem: Exploring Livestock Farm Resilience to Droughts in Unit Record Data

Levente Timar and Eyal Apatov

20_13: Challenges and opportunities with native forestry on M?ori land

Pia Pohatu, Sophie O’Brien and Leo Mercer

20_12: Research Funding and Collaboration

Benjamin Davies, Jason Gush, Shaun C. Hendy and Adam Jaffe

20_11: Decision trees: Forestry in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme post-2020

Sandra Cortés Acosta, Arthur Grimes and Catherine Leining

20_10: Review of policy instruments for freshwater management

Julia Talbot-Jones, Sophie Hale and Suzie Greenhalgh

20_09: The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously

Arthur Grimes, Stephen Jenkins and Florencia Tranquilli

20_08: Delineating functional labour market areas with estimable classification stabilities

Benjamin Davies and David Maré

20_07: Modelling urban development in New Zealand

S. Donovan, Arthur Grimes and David Maré

20_06: How does Monetary Policy affect welfare?

Lina El-Jahel, Robert MacCulloch and Hamed Shafiee

20_05: Measuring commute patterns over time: Using administrative data to identify where employees live and work

Richard Fabling and David Maré

20_04: Hometown wh?nau or big city millennials? The economic geography of graduate destination choices in New Zealand

Arthur Grimes, Shaan Badenhorst, David Maré and Jacques Poot

20_03: Projecting the effect of climate change-induced increases in extreme rainfall on residential property damages: A case study from New Zealand

Dean Hyslop, Trinh Le and Lynn Riggs

20_02: Projecting the effect of climate change-induced increases in extreme rainfall on residential property damages: A case study from New Zealand

Jacob Pastor-Paz, Ilan Noy, Isabelle Sin, Abha Sood, David Fleming-Munoz and Sally Owen

20_01: Why are there more accidents on Mondays? Economic incentives, ergonomics or externalities

Michelle Poland, Isabelle Sin and Steven Stillman

19_23: Ultra-fast broadband, skill complementarities, gender and wages

Richard Fabling and Arthur Grimes

19_22: Occupational drift in New Zealand: 1976-2018

David Maré

19_21: Is the pay of medical specialists in New Zealand gender biased?

Isabelle Sin and Bronwyn Bruce-Brand

19_20: Commuting to diversity

David Maré and Jacques Poot

19_19: EQC and extreme weather events (part 2): Measuring the impact of insurance on New Zealand landslip, storm and flood recovery using nightlights

Sally Owen, Ilan Noy, Jacob Pástor-Paz and David Fleming

19_18: Measuring the “gig” economy: Challenges and options

Lynn Riggs, Isabelle Sin and Dean Hyslop

19_17: Digital inclusion and wellbeing in New Zealand

Arthur Grimes and Dominic White

19_16: Competition and productivity: Do commonly used metrics suggest a relationship?

David Maré and Richard Fabling

19_15: Changes in New Zealand’s Business Insolvency Rates after the Global Financial Crisis

Viv Hall and Christopher McDermott

19_14: Housing markets and migration – Evidence from New Zealand

Dean Hyslop, Trinh Le, David Maré and Steven Stillman

19_13: Liquidity, the government balance sheet, and the public sector discount rate

Andrew Coleman

19_12: A Community of Practice for Economic Modelling of Climate Change Mitigation in New Zealand

Niven Winchester, Dominic White and Catherine Leining

19_11: Cows, cash and climate: Low stocking rates, high-performing cows, emissions and profitability across New Zealand farms

David Fleming, Suzi Kerr and Edmund Lou

19_10: Identifying barriers to adoption of “no-cost” greenhouse gas mitigation practices in pastoral systems

Sandra Cortes Acosta, David Fleming, Loïc Henry, Edmund Lou, Sally Owen and Bruce Small

19_09: Paying for Mitigation: How New Zealand Can Contribute to Others’ Efforts

Suzi Kerr and Catherine Leining

19_08: Uncertainty, Risk and Investment and the NZ ETS

Suzi Kerr and Catherine Leining

19_07: Managing Scarcity and Ambition in the NZ ETS

Catherine Leining and Suzi Kerr

19_06: The Contrasting Importance of Quality of Life and Quality of Business for Domestic and International Migrants

Arthur Grimes, Kate Preston, David Maré, Shaan Badenhorst and S. Donovan

19_05: Valuing cultural diversity of cities

David Maré and Jacques Poot

19_04: Financial Transfers and Climate Cooperation

Suzi Kerr, Steffen Lippert and Edmund Lou

19_03: Improved productivity measurement in New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database

Richard Fabling and David Maré

19_02: The settlement experience of Pacific migrants in New Zealand: Insights from LISNZ and the IDI

Isabelle Sin and Judd Ormsby

19_01: Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth

Benjamin Davies and David Maré

18_16: Land-use modelling in New Zealand: current practice and future needs

Jo Hendy, Levente Timar and Dominic White

18_15: Energy- and multi-sector modelling of climate change mitigation in New Zealand: current practice and future needs

Dominic White and Niven Winchester

18_14: Amenities and the attractiveness of New Zealand cities

Kate Preston, David Maré, Arthur Grimes and S. Donovan

18_13: Who partners up? Educational assortative matching and the distribution of income in New Zealand

Omoniyi Alimi, David Maré and Jacques Poot

18_12: Entrepreneurial beginnings: Transitions to self-employment and the creation of jobs

Richard Fabling

18_11: International Agricultural Mitigation Research and the Impacts and Value of Two SLMACC Research Projects

David Fleming and Kate Preston

18_10: Do housing allowances increase rents? Evidence from a discrete policy change

Dean Hyslop and David Rea

18_09: Public insurance and climate change (part one): Past trends in weather-related insurance in New Zealand

David Fleming, Ilan Noy, Jacob Pastor-Paz and Sally Owen