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20304: Is Economics Useful for Public Policy?

James Alm

20299: When You Know Your Neighbour Pays Taxes: Information, Peer Effects, and Tax Compliance

James Alm, Kim M. Bloomquist and Michael McKee

20294: Evaluating the Economic Effects of Flat Tax Reforms Using Synthetic Control Methods

Bibek Adhikari and James Alm

20293: The Effects of Penalty Information on Tax Compliance: Evidence from a New Zealand Field Experiment

Norman Gemmell and Marisa Ratto

20292: Effective Tax Rates and the User Cost of Capital when Interest Rates are Low

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

20286: Taxes and Economic Growth in OECD Countries: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Nazila Alinaghi and W. Reed

20285: Meta-Analysis and Publication Bias: How Well Does the Fat-Pet-Peese Procedure Work?

Nazila Alinaghi and W. Reed

20283: Income Dynamics, Pro-Poor Mobility And Poverty Persistence Curves*

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

20282: Illustrating Income Mobility: Two New Measures*

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

20257: The Evolution of Research Quality in New Zealand Universities as Measured by the Performance-Based Research Fund Process

Robert Buckle and John Creedy

20256: Labour Supply Elasticities in New Zealand

John Creedy and Penny Mok

20255: The Marginal welfare cost of personal income taxation in New Zealand

John Creedy and Penny Mok

20254: Reforms to New Zealand Superannuation Eligibility: Are They a Good Idea?

Norman Gemmell

20253: Income inequality in New Zealand, 1935 – 2014

John Creedy, Norman Gemmell and Loc Nguyen

19356: Long-run Fiscal Projections under Uncertainty: The Case of New Zealand

Christopher Ball, John Creedy and Grant Scobie

19355: Labour Supply in New Zealand and the 2010 Tax and Transfer Changes

John Creedy and Penny Mok

19354: Debt Projections and Fiscal Sustainability with Feedback Effects

John Creedy and Grant Scobie

19331: The Distributional Effects of Consumption Taxes in New Zealand

Alastair Thomas

19330: Inequality in New Zealand 1983/84 to 2013/14*

Christopher Ball and John Creedy

19275: Revenue-Maximising Tax Rates in Personal Income Taxation in the Presence of Consumption Taxes: A note

José Félix Sanz-Sanz

19269: Taxation and the User Cost of Capital: An Introduction

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

19268: A Note on Computing the Gini Inequality Measure with Weighted Data

John Creedy

18869: The Welfare Gain from a New Good: An Introduction

John Creedy

18868: Pensions, Savings and Housing: A Life-cycle Framework with Policy Simulations

John Creedy, Norman Gemmell and Grant Scobie

18859: Income redistribution and changes in inequality in New Zealand from 2007 to 2011: Alternative distributions and value judgements

John Creedy and Jesse Eedrah

18858: 'Flood and fire and famine': Tax policy lessons from the Australian responses to natural disasters

Carolyn Palmer

18856: A note on Inequality-Preserving Distributional Changes

John Creedy

18852: Determinants of the Spanish housing market over three decades and three booms: Long run supply and demand elasticities

María Arrazola, Jose de Hevia, Desiderio Romero and José Félix Sanz-Sanz

18851: Personal Income Tax Reforms and the Elasticity of Reported Income to Marginal Tax Rates: An Empirical Analysis Applied to Spain

María Arrazola, Jose de Hevia, Desiderio Romero and José Félix Sanz-Sanz

18846: Interpreting Inequality Measures and Changes in Inequality

John Creedy

18845: Does the Composition of Government Expenditure Matter for Long-run GDP Levels?

Norman Gemmell, Richard Kneller and Ismael Sanz

18835: Explaining International Differences in the Prices of Tradables and Non-Tradables (with a New Zealand Perspective)

Rodney Falvey, Norman Gemmell, Cherry Chang and Guanyu Zheng

18834: Housing Affordability: Lessons from the United States

Mark Skidmore

18824: The Prices of Goods and Services in New Zealand: An International Comparison

Norman Gemmell

18814: Longevity Trends and their Implications for the Age of Eligibility for New Zealand Superannuation

Alison O'Connell

18810: Property Tax Delinquency - Social Contract in Crisis: The Case of Detroit

James Alm, Timothy R. Hodge, Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

18804: Using Surveys of Business Perceptions as a Guide to Growth-Enhancing Fiscal Reforms

Florian Misch, Norman Gemmell and Richard Kneller

18803: Measuring Revenue-Maximising Elasticities of Taxable Income: Evidence for the US Income Tax

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

18802: Complementarity in Models of Public Finance and Endogenous Growth

Florian Misch, Norman Gemmell and Richard Kneller

18789: The Elasticity of Taxable Income, Welfare Changes and Optimal Tax Rates

John Creedy

18787: Estimating Firm-Level Effective Tax Rates and the User Cost of Capital in New Zealand

Richard Fabling, Norman Gemmell, Richard Kneller and Lynda Sanderson

18786: Taxpayers' Behavioural Responses and Measures of Tax Compliance 'Gaps': A Critique

Norman Gemmell and John Hasseldine

18785: The Distribution of Income and Fiscal Incidence by Age and Gender: Some Evidence from New Zealand

Omar Aziz, Norman Gemmell and Athene Laws

18784: Alternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons

John Creedy

18782: An Analysis of Benefit Flows in New Zealand using a Social Accounting Framework

Omar Aziz, Nick Carroll and John Creedy

18781: Tax Policy with Uncertain Future Costs: Some Simple Models

Christopher Ball and John Creedy

18780: Social Expenditure in New Zealand: Stochastic Projections

John Creedy and Kathleen Makale

18778: Population Ageing and the Growth of Income and Consumption Tax Revenue

Christopher Ball and John Creedy

18777: Can Automatic Tax Increases Pay for the Public Spending Effects of Population Ageing in New Zealand?

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

18771: The Growth Effects of Tax Rates in the OECD

Norman Gemmell, Richard Kneller and Ismael Sanz

18770: Corporate Taxation and Productivity Catch-Up: Evidence from European firms

Norman Gemmell, Richard Kneller, Danny McGowan, Ismael Sanz and José F. Sanz-Sanz

18755: Government Size, Fiscal Policy and the Level and Growth of Output: A Review of Recent Evidence

Norman Gemmell and Joey Au

18717: The Tax Gap: A Methodological Review

Norman Gemmell and John Hasseldine

18716: Inequality Comparisons in a Multi-Period Framework: The Role of Alternative Welfare Metrics

John Creedy, Elin Halvorsen and Thor Thoresen

18715: The Composition of Government Expenditure with Alternative Choice Mechanisms

John Creedy and Solmaz Moslehi

18714: Decomposing Inequality and Social Welfare Changes: The Use of Alternative Welfare Metrics

John Creedy and Nicolas Hérault

18713: Revenue-Maximising Elasticities of Taxable Income in Multi-Rate Income Tax Structures

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

18712: Measuring Revenue Responses to Tax Rate Changes in Multi-Rate Income Tax Systems: Behavioural and Structural Factors

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

18710: Regression Estimates of the Elasticity of Taxable Income and the Choice of Instrument

Simon Carey, John Creedy, Norman Gemmell and Josh Teng

18709: The Elasticity of Taxable Income in New Zealand

Iris Claus, John Creedy and Josh Teng

18708: Average Marginal Income Tax Rates in New Zealand, 1907-2009

Debasis Bandyopadhyay, Robert Barro, Jeremy Couchman, Norman Gemmell, Gordon Liao and Fiona McAlister