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21186: Manual of VIKAASA: An application capable of computing and graphing viability kernels for simple viability problems

Jacek B. Krawczyk

21184: A boosted HP filter for business cycle analysis: evidence from New Zealand’s small open economy

Viv Hall and Peter Thomson

21117: Income and Extratropical Cyclones in New Zealand

Roy Apurba, Ilan Noy and Cuffe Harold E.

21107: Economic consequences of pre-COVID-19 epidemics: A literature review

Ilan Noy and Tomáš Uher

21103: Motherhood Employment Penalty and Gender Wage Gap Across Countries: 1990–2010

Yu-Wei Chu, Harold E Cuffe and Nguyen Doan

21100: Influences on Sponsor Voluntary Contributions to Defined Benefit Pension Plans in the US

Tanjila Tabassum and Eric R. Ulm

21099: Effects of Sea Surface Temperature on Tuna Catch: Evidence from Countries in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Hanny John P Mediodia

21087: Over-valued or over-looked? A theoretical and empirical investigation of agricultural land values against profitability in Aotearoa New Zealand

Corey Allan, Suzi Kerr and Sally Owen

21070: Does Hamilton’s OLS regression provide a “better alternative” to the Hodrick-Prescott filter? A New Zealand Business Cycle Perspective

Viv Hall and Peter Thomson

21067: Do Struggling Students Benefit From Continued Student Loan Access? Evidence From University and Beyond

Yu-Wei Chu and Harold E Cuffe

21060: Analytic Valuation of GMDB Options with Utility Based Asset Allocation

Eric Ulm

20970: Changes in New Zealand’s Business Insolvency Rates after the GFC

Viv Hall and John McDermott

20968: The Save More Tomorrow™ plan can boost retirement savings in New Zealand

Jan Feld and Shakked Noy

20966: Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching

Jan Feld, Nicolas Salamanca and Ulf Zolitz

20952: Droughts and farms’ financial performance in New Zealand: A micro farm level study

Farnaz Pourzand, Ilan Noy and Yiğit Sağlam

20951: Who cares? Future sea-level-rise and house prices

Olga Filippova, Cuong Nguyen, Ilan Noy and Michael Rehm

20926: Recent Changes in the Nature of Distribution Dynamics of US County Incomes

Seonyoung Park and Donggyun Shin

20917: Inflation and wage rigidity/flexibility in the short run

Seonyoung Park and Donggyun Shin

20888: Welfare consequences of rising wage risk in the United States: Self-selection into risky jobs and family labor supply adjustments

Seonyoung Park and Donggyun Shin

20882: Are professors worth it? The value-added and costs of tutorial instructors

Jan Feld, Nicolas Salamanca and Ulf Zölitz

20850: Opportunity from disaster: Evidence of the Christchurch earthquake’s effects on high schoolers’ post-graduation outcomes

Harold E Cuffe and Olivia Wills

20837: Fiscal space and government-spending & tax-rate cyclicality patterns: A cross-country comparison, 1960-2016

Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak, Hien Thi Kim Nguyen and Donghyun Park

20829: The effect of retirement taxation rules on the value of guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits

Eric Ulm

20333: Power of personalized smoking cessation: A unified lifecycle framework for policy evaluation

Li-Shiun Chen, Ping Wang and Yao Yao

20332: What we still need to know about the impacts of medical marijuana laws in the United States?

Yu-Wei Chu

20321: Distributional impacts of disaster recovery: Sri Lankan households a decade after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Diana De Alwis

20319: Measurement of economic welfare risk and resilience of the Philippine regions

Rio Yonson and Ilan Noy

20317: Preventing buildings from falling down: Challenges for earthquake-strengthening policy in small-town New Zealand

Olga Filippova and Ilan Noy

20316: Measuring the impact of insurance on urban recovery with light: The 2011 New Zealand earthquake

Cuong Nguyen and Ilan Noy

20312: Employment participation, unemployment and non market work: Composition models of the United States labour force

L Fraser Jackson and Mohammed S Khaled

20289: Plotting labour force status shares: Interdependence and ternary plots

L. Fraser Jackson and Mohammed S Khaled

20278: The economics of cryptocurrencies – bitcoin and beyond

Jonathan Chiu and Thorsten V Koeppl

20269: Sustainable financing for climate and disaster resilience in Atoll Islands: Evidence from Tuvalu and Kiribati

Tauisi Taupo

20251: Insuring earthquakes: How would the Californian and Japanese insurance programs have fared down under (after the 2011 New Zealand earthquake)?

Cuong Nguyen and Ilan Noy

20250: Insuring disasters: A survey of the economics of insurance programs for earthquakes and droughts

Ilan Noy, Aditya Kusuma and Cuong Nguyen

20247: The unfortunate regressivity of public natural hazard insurance: A quantitative analysis of a New Zealand case

Sally Owen and Ilan Noy

20246: The cost of being under the weather: Droughts, floods, and health care costs in Sri Lanka

Diana De Alwis and Ilan Noy

20245: A viable and cost-effective weather index insurance for rice in Indonesia

Aditya Kusuma, Ilan Noy and Bethanna Jackson

20225: House prices and macroprudential policy in an estimated DSGE model of New Zealand

Michael Funke, Robert Kirkby and Petar Mihaylovski

20153: Estimating bias of technical progress with a small dataset

Mohammed S Khaled

20152: Accounting for productivity growth in a small open economy: Sector-specific technological change and relative prices of trade

Shutao Cao

20151: Financial constraints and productivity: Evidence from Canadian SMEs

Shutao Cao and Danny Leung

20148: Forecasting the Term Structure of Implied Volatilities

Biao Guo, Qian Han and Hai Lin

20145: Estimating the relationship between skill and overconfidence

Jan Feld, Jan Sauermann and Andries de Grip

20143: Joint culpability: The effects of medical marijuana laws on crime

Yu-Wei Chu and Wilbur Townsend

20138: International trade data quality index

Karam Shaar

20137: Why you should use high frequency data to test the impact of exchange rate on trade

Karam Shaar and Mohammed Khaled

19669: Transition paths for Bewley-Huggett-Aiyagari models: Comparison of some solution algorithms

Robert Kirkby

19553: To leave or not to leave? Climate change, exit, and voice on a Pacific Island

Ilan Noy

19552: The economic and fiscal burdens of disasters in the Pacific

Ilan Noy and Christopher Edmonds