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19396: The role of commercial insurance in post-disaster recovery: Quantitative evidence from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake

Porntida Poontirakul, Charlotte Brown, Ilan Noy, Erica Seville and John Vargo

19395: The measurement of disaster risk: An example from tropical cyclones in the Philippines

Rio Yonson, J. C. Gaillard and Ilan Noy

19394: A survey of the theory and measurement of economic vulnerability and resilience to natural hazards

Ilan Noy and Rio Yonson

19393: The trade impacts of a food scare: The Fonterra contamination incident

Katarina Stojkov, Ilan Noy and Yiğit Sağlam

19392: The household response to persistent natural disasters: Evidence from Bangladesh

Azreen Karim

19358: Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

Jan Feld and Ulf Zölitz

19357: Gender gap in upward mobility: What is the role of non-cognitive traits?

Luke Yu-Wei Chu and Susan J. Linz

19353: Innovation and growth with financial, and other, frictions

Jonathan Chiu, Cesaire Meh and Randall Wright

19347: The effect of payday lending restrictions on liquor sales

Harold E Cuffe and Christopher Gibbs

19335: Viability of an economy with constrained inequality

Jacek B Krawczyk and Wilbur Townsend

19334: Recessions and Recoveries in New Zealand’s Post-Second World War Business Cycles

Viv Hall and Christopher McDermott

19267: Natural disasters and climate change in the Pacific island countries: New non-monetary measurements of impacts

Ilan Noy

19265: Precautionary strategies and household savings

Joshua Aizenman, Eduardo Cavallo and Ilan Noy

19264: The long-run socio-economic consequences of a large disaster: The 1995 earthquake in Kobe

William du Pont IV, Yoko Okuyama, Ilan Noy and Yasuyuki Sawada

19263: The (mis) allocation of public spending in a low income country: Evidence from disaster risk reduction spending in Bangladesh

Azreen Karim and Ilan Noy

19262: A non-monetary global measure of the direct impact of natural disasters

Ilan Noy

19261: Comparing the direct human impact of natural disasters for two (surprisingly similar) cases — the Christchurch earthquake and Bangkok flood of 2011

Ilan Noy

19251: New Zealand inequality and the struggle between capital and labour

Jacek B Krawczyk and Wilbur Townsend

19250: Basic understanding of social inequality dynamics

Jacek B Krawczyk and Wilbur Townsend

19231: Supply-Based Dynamic Ramsey Pricing with Two Sectors: Avoiding Water Shortages

Yiğit Sağlam

18867: On trend robustness and end-point issues for New Zealand’s stylised business cycle facts

Viv Hall, Peter Thomson and Stuart McKelvie

18854: Cooperative organizations as an engine of equitable rural economic development

Morris Altman

18853: Floods and spillovers: Households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand

Ilan Noy and Pooja Patel

18843: Insights from behavioral economics on how labor markets work

Morris Altman

18839: Manual of VIKAASA 2.0: An application for computing and graphing viability kernels for simple viability problems

Jacek B Krawczyk and Alastair S Pharo

18833: NIRA-GUI: A matlab application which solves for couple-constraint nash equibria from a symbolic specification

Jacek B Krawczyk and Wilbur Townsend

18832: InfsocSol3: An updated MATLAB® package for approximating the solution to a continuous-time infinite horizon stochastic optimal control problem

Jacek B Krawczyk and Alastair S Pharo

18828: On long memory behaviour and predictability of financial markets

Long H. Vo and Leigh Roberts

18823: Poverty and natural disasters: A meta-analysis

Azreen Karim and Ilan Noy

18822: The effects of medical marijuana laws on illegal marijuana use

Yu-Wei Chu

18821: Do medical marijuana laws increase hard drug use?

Yu-Wei Chu

18815: Consistent estimation of breakpoints in time series, with application to wavelet analysis of Citigroup returns

Leigh Roberts

18800: Natural disasters and firms in Vietnam

Tam Bang Vu and Ilan Noy

18799: Where is the money? Post-disaster foreign aid flows

Oscar Becerra, Eduardo Cavallo and Ilan Noy

18795: Banking crises, sudden stops, and the effectiveness of short-term lending

Chia-Ying Chang

18794: Capital controls, capital flows, and banking crises

Chia-Ying Chang

18793: Poverty, inequality and natural disasters – A survey

Ilan Noy and Azreen Karim

18792: Sensitivity of cautious-relaxed investment policies to target variation

Jarred Foster and Jacek B Krawczyk

18776: Regional Effects of Natural Disasters in China

Tam Bang Vu and Ilan Noy

18772: Public and private saving and the long shadow of macroeconomic shocks

Joshua Aizenman and Ilan Noy

18764: The short-run nationwide Macroeconomic effects of the Canterbury earthquakes

Lisa Doyle and Ilan Noy

18731: Macroeconomic adjustment and the history of crises in open economies

Joshua Aizenman and Ilan Noy

18704: Capital Controls in Brazil: Stemming a Tide with a Signal?

Yothin Jinjarak, Ilan Noy and Huanhuan Zheng

18703: Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Global Fund

Ilan Noy

18701: The 1960 Tsunami in Hawaii: Long Term Consequences of a Coastal Disaster

John Lynham, Ilan Noy and Jonathan Page

18698: Stylised facts for New Zealand business cycles: A post-1987 perspective

S. McKelvie and Viv Hall

18662: Behavioural economics perspectives: Implications for policy and financial literacy

Morris Altman

18630: Fire-Sale FDI? The impact of financial crises on foreign direct investment

Olga Bogach and Ilan Noy

18629: Natural disasters and economic policy for the Pacific Rim

Ilan Noy

18628: What happened to Kobe? A reassessment of the impact of the 1995 earthquake in Japan

William duPont IV and Ilan Noy

18625: Job matching, family gap and fertility choice

Chia-Ying Chang, Derek Laing and Ping Wang

18624: New entries and economic growth

Chia-Ying Chang and Vera Hansen

18623: Can a home country benefit from FDI? A theoretical analysis

Chia-Ying Chang

18622: The role of market frictions on the price differential: A search-theoretical approach

Chia-Ying Chang

18621: Banking crises and sudden stops: What could IMF do to assist?

Chia-Ying Chang

18620: When banking systems meet currencies

Chia-Ying Chang

18617: Personality, well-being and the marginal utility of income: What can we learn from random coefficient models?

Stefanie Schurer and Jongsay Yong

18609: A note resolving the debate on “The weighted average cost of capital is not quite right”

Stephen Keef, Mohammed S Khaled and Melvin L Roush

18608: Miller's (2009) WACC model: An extension

Stephen Keef, Mohammed S Khaled and Melvin L Roush

18607: The friday the thirteenth effect in stock prices: international evidence using panel data

Stephen Keef and Mohammed S Khaled

18606: Tests for weak form market efficiency in stock prices: Monte Carlo evidence

Mohammed S Khaled and Stephen Keef

18605: On the dynamics of international stock market efficiency

Mohammed Khaled and Stephen Keef

18604: Can implied forward mortgage rates predict future mortgage rates - recent New Zealand experience

David Tripe, Bingru Xia and Leigh Roberts

18601: The stability of big-five personality traits

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stefanie Schurer

18598: What determines European real exchange rates?

Martin Berka and Michael Devereux

18597: Price setting in a leading Swiss online supermarket

Martin Berka, Michael Devereux and Thomas Rudolph

18596: The impact of private hospital insurance on utilization of hospital care in Australia: Evidence from the national health survey

Damien Eldridge, Cagatay Koç, Ilke Onur and Malathi Velamuri

18595: Optimal Tax Rules for Addictive Consumption

Luca Bossi, Paul Calcott and Vladimir Petkov

18594: Modelling New Zealand electricity prices from a risk management perspective

Caroline Moy and Leigh Roberts

18593: Two economists’ musings on the stability of locus of control

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stefanie Schurer

18555: An unobserved components common cycle for Australasia? Implications for a common currency

Viv Hall and Christopher McDermott

18553: Optimal Pricing of Water: Optimal Departures from the Inverse Elasticity Rule

Yiğit Sağlam

18552: On loss-avoiding lump-sum pension optimization with contingent targets

Jeffrey Azzato, Jacek B Krawczyk and Christopher Sissons

18551: Approximations to viability kernels for sustainable macroeconomic policies

Jacek B Krawczyk, Alastair Pharo and Mark Simpson