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15_15: Production function estimation using New Zealand’s Longitudinal Business Database

Richard Fabling and David Maré

15_14: Indigenous Belief in a Just World: New Zealand M?ori and other Ethnicities Compared

Arthur Grimes, Robert MacCulloch and Fraser McKay

15_13: Agricultural productivity in New Zealand: First estimates from the Longitudinal Business Database

Eyal Apatov, Richard Fabling, Adam Jaffe, Michele Morris and Matt Thirkettle

15_12: The effect of public funding on research output: the New Zealand Marsden Fund

Adam Jaffe, Jason Gush, Victoria Larsen and Athene Laws

15_11: Methane and Metrics: From global climate policy to the NZ farm

Zack Dorner and Suzi Kerr

15_10: Relative Income and Subjective Wellbeing: Intra-national and Inter-national Comparisons by Settlement and Country Type

Arthur Grimes and Marc Reinhardt

15_09: A New Cross-Country Measure of Material Wellbeing and Inequality: Methodology, Construction and Results

Arthur Grimes and Sean Hyland

15_08: The impact of R&D subsidy on innovation: a study of New Zealand firms

Adam Jaffe and Trinh Le

15_07: Nitrogen Trading in Lake Taupo: An Analysis and Evaluation of an Innovative Water Management Policy

Madeline Duhon and Suzi Kerr

15_06: Are we turning a brighter shade of green? The relationship between household characteristics and greenhouse gas emissions from consumption in New Zealand

Corey Allan, Suzi Kerr and Campbell Will

15_05: Exchange rate fluctuations and the margins of exports

Richard Fabling and Lynda Sanderson

15-04: The impact of tax changes on the short-run investment behaviour of New Zealand firms

Richard Fabling, Richard Kneller and Lynda Sanderson

15-03: Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from M?ori in New Zealand

Isabelle Sin and Steven Stillman

15_02: Impacts of Planning Rules, Regulations, Uncertainty and Delay on Residential Property Development

Arthur Grimes and Ian Mitchell

15_01: Are Patent Fees Effective at Weeding Out Low-Quality Patents?

Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Adam Jaffe

14_16: Productivity distributions in New Zealand: The dangers of international comparison

Richard Fabling and Lynda Sanderson

14_15: Exporting, Innovation and the Role of Immigrants

Isabelle Sin, Richard Fabling, Adam Jaffe, David Maré and Lynda Sanderson

14_14: Hiring New Ideas: International Migration and Firm Innovation in New Zealand

Keith McLeod, Richard Fabling and David Maré

14_13: That Sinking Feeling: The Changing Price of Disaster Risk Following an Earthquake

Levente Timar, Arthur Grimes and Richard Fabling

14_12: Modelling Changing Rural Land Use in New Zealand 1997 to 2008 Using a Multinomial Logit Approach

Zack Dorner and Dean Hyslop

14_11: Infrastructure’s Long-Lived Impact on Urban Development: Theory and Empirics

Arthur Grimes, Eyal Apatov, Larissa Lutchman and Anna Robinson

14_10: Earnings and Employment in Foreign-owned Firms

David Maré, Lynda Sanderson and Richard Fabling

14_09: Going to the Source: Using an Upstream Point of Regulation for Energy in a National Chinese Emissions Trading System

Suzi Kerr and Vicki Duscha

14_08: Natural Selection: Firm Performance Following the Canterbury Earthquakes

Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Levente Timar

14_07: Land Use in Rural New Zealand: Spatial Land Use, Land-use Change, and Model Validation

Simon Anastasiadis, Suzi Kerr, Wei Zhang, Corey Allan and William Power

14_06: Culture, Beliefs and Economic Performance

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

14_05: Greenhouse Gas Emissions in New Zealand: A Preliminary Consumption-Based Analysis

Carl Romanos, Suzi Kerr and Campbell Will

14_04: Diffusion of Green Technology: A Survey

Corey Allan, Adam Jaffe and Isabelle Sin

14_03: Land-use Intensity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the LURNZ Model

Levente Timar and Suzi Kerr

14_02: Four Lectures on Central Banking

Arthur Grimes

14_01: Over the Hedge: Do Exporters Practice Selective Hedging?

Richard Fabling and Arthur Grimes

13_15: Sources of international investment data in the Longitudinal Business Database

Lynda Sanderson

13_14: Estimating Firm-Level Effective Marginal Tax Rates and the User Cost of Capital in New Zealand

Richard Fabling, Norman Gemmell, Richard Kneller and Lynda Sanderson

13_13: Managing Risks and Tradeoffs Using Water Markets

Suzi Kerr

13_12: Housing Market Dynamics and the GFC: The Complex Dynamics of a Credit Shock

Arthur Grimes and Sean Hyland

13_11: Mitigation and Heterogeneity in Management Practices on New Zealand Dairy Farms

Simon Anastasiadis and Suzi Kerr

13_10: Passing the Buck: Impacts of Commodity Price Shocks on Local Outcomes

Arthur Grimes and Sean Hyland

13_09: Value and Culture

Corey Allan, Arthur Grimes and Suzi Kerr

13_08: The incidence and persistence of cyclical job loss in New Zealand

David Maré and Richard Fabling

13_07: A New Zealand Urban Population Database

Arthur Grimes and Nicholas Tarrant

13_06: Firm-level Hiring Difficulties: Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences

Richard Fabling and David Maré

13_05: The Impact of Wage Subsidies on Jobseekers' Outcomes and Firm Employment

Sarah Crichton and David Maré

13_04: Investigation of Options for a New Longitudinal Household Survey: Issues and Options Paper

Ron Crawford and David Maré

13_03: The Costs of Involuntary Job Loss: Impacts on Workers’ Employment and Earnings

Sylvia Dixon and David Maré

13_02: A New Zealand Regional Housing Model

Arthur Grimes, Sean Hyland, Andrew Coleman, James Kerr and Alex Collier

13_01: Export Performance, Invoice Currency, and Heterogeneous Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Richard Fabling and Lynda Sanderson

12_14: Roadmap for Implementing a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System in Chile: Core Design Options and Policy Decision-Making Considerations

Suzi Kerr, Catherine Leining and Justine Sefton

12_13: Performance Pay Systems and the Gender Wage Gap

Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and David Maré

12_12: The Economics of International Policy Agreements to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

Suzi Kerr

12_11: Pension Payments and Receipts by New Zealand Birth Cohorts, 1916–1986

Andrew Coleman