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12_10: Spatial and Temporal Responses to an Emissions Trading System Covering Agriculture and Forestry: Simulation Results from New Zealand

Suzi Kerr, Simon Anastasiadis, Alex Olssen, William Power, Levente Timar and Wei Zhang

12_09: Does Money Buy Me Love? Testing Alternative Measures of National Wellbeing

Arthur Grimes, Les Oxley and Nicholas Tarrant

12_08: Price, Quality, and International Agricultural Trade

Darian Woods and Andrew Coleman

12_07: A Forest-Profit Expectations Dataset for New Zealand, 1990–2008

Alex Olssen, Wei Zhang, David Evison and Suzi Kerr

12-06: Gradual Land-use Change in New Zealand: Results from a Dynamic Econometric Model

Suzi Kerr and Alex Olssen

12-05: Book Translations as Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge

Ran Abramitzky and Isabelle Sin

12_04: Cyclical Labour Market Adjustment in New Zealand: The Response of Firms to the Global Financial Crisis and its Implications for Workers

Richard Fabling and David Maré

12_03: Cooperation to Reduce Developing Country Emissions

Suzi Kerr and Adam Millard-Ball

12_02: The Relationship between Individual Labour Market Outcomes, Household Income and Expenditure, and Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand from 1983 to 2003

Steven Stillman, Trinh Le, John Gibson, Dean Hyslop and David Maré

12_01: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Home Production Activity: Evidence from Rural New York, 1825–1845

Andrew Coleman

11_15: Trading Efficiency in Water Quality Trading Markets: An Assessment of Trade-Offs

Hugh McDonald and Suzi Kerr

11_14: Does Complex Hydrology Require Complex Water Quality Policy? NManager Simulations for Lake Rotorua

Simon Anastasiadis, Marie-Laure Nauleau, Suzi Kerr, Tim Cox and Kit Rutherford

11_13: Rural Land Use and Land Tenure in New Zealand

Levente Timar

11_12: Building Bridges: Treating a New Transport Link as a Real Option

Arthur Grimes

11_11: Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling

Arthur Grimes, Steven Stillman and Chris Young

11_10: Productivity and Local Workforce Composition

David Maré and Richard Fabling

11_09: Preliminary Evidence on Responses to the New Zealand Forestry Emissions Trading Scheme

Eric Karpas and Suzi Kerr

11_08: Patterns of business location in Auckland

David Maré and Andrew Coleman

11_07: Estimating the determinants of population location in Auckland

David Maré and Andrew Coleman

11_06: Patterns of population location in Auckland

David Maré, Andrew Coleman and Ruth Pinkerton

11_05: Immigration and Innovation

Richard Fabling, Steven Stillman and David Maré

11_04: Financial Contracts and the Management of Carbon Emissions in Small Scale Plantation Forests

Andrew Coleman

11_03: Does Selling State Silver Generate Private Gold? Determinants and Impacts of State House Sales and Acquisitions in New Zealand

Katy Bergstrom, Arthur Grimes and Steven Stillman

11_02: Homeownership and Social Capital in New Zealand

Matthew Roskruge, Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot

11_01: Keeping it Together: Tracking Firms on New Zealand’s Longitudinal Business Database

Richard Fabling

10_14: The International Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural Commodity Prices, and the Wider Effects on New Zealand

Adolf Stroombergen

10_13: A State Housing Database: 1993-2009

Arthur Grimes, Steven Stillman, Hugh McDonald and Alex Olssen

10_12: The Spatial Impact of Local Infrastructural Investment in New Zealand

William Cochrane, Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot

10_11: Anticipatory Effects of Rail Upgrades: Auckland’s Western Line

Arthur Grimes and Chris Young

10_10: A Simple Repeat Sales House Price Index: Comparative Properties Under Alternative Data Generation Processes

Arthur Grimes and Chris Young

10_09: A New Zealand Electricity Market Model: Assessment of the Effect of Climate Change on Electricity Production and Consumption

Lewis Evans, Graeme Guthrie and Andrea Lu

10_08: “No Country for Old Men”: a Note on the trans-Tasman Income Divide

Andrew Coleman and Hugh McDonald

10_07: New Zealand Housing Markets: Just a Bit-Player in the A-League?

Arthur Grimes and Mark Holmes

10_06: Household Wealth and Saving in New Zealand: Evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Family, Income and Employment

Trinh Le, John Gibson and Steven Stillman

10_05: The Economics of Infrastructure Investment: Beyond Simple Cost Benefit Analysis

Arthur Grimes

10_04: Optimizing Voluntary Deforestation Policy in the Face of Adverse Selection and Costly Transfers

Arthur van Benthem and Suzi Kerr

10_03: Social capital and regional social infrastructure investment: Evidence from New Zealand

Arthur Grimes, Matthew Roskruge, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot

10_02: Uncovering uncovered interest parity during the classical gold standard era, 1888-1905

Andrew Coleman

10_01: I Squeezed in and squeezed out: the effects of population ageing on the demand for housing

Andrew Coleman

09_17: How Does Changing Land Cover and Land Use in New Zealand relate to Land Use Capability and Slope?

Suzi Kerr and Maribeth Todd

09_16: Allocation of New Zealand Units within Agriculture in the New Zealand Emissions Trading System

Suzi Kerr and Wei Zhang

09_15: The Need for Speed: Impacts of Internet Connectivity on Firm Productivity

Arthur Grimes, Cleo Ren and Philip Stevens

09_14: Fiscal, Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Land and Property Taxes

Andrew Coleman and Arthur Grimes

09_13: The long term effects of capital gains taxes in New Zealand

Andrew Coleman

09_12: Spatial Effects of ‘Mill’ Closures: Does Distance Matter?

Arthur Grimes and Chris Young

09_11: The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of New Zealanders

David Maré and Steven Stillman

09_10: The Labour Market Adjustment of Immigrants in New Zealand

Steven Stillman and David Maré

09_09: Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Cost Sharing and Allowance Allocation

Suzi Kerr and Kelly Lock

09_08: A Simple Model of Housing Rental and Ownership with Policy Simulations

Andrew Coleman and Grant Scobie

09_07: Variations in earnings growth: Evidence from earnings transitions in the NZ Linked Income Survey

Ron Crawford