Working Papers in Economics

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25/03: From willingness to engage to willingness to pay: A behavioral experiment on green consumer information in a digital product passport

Zack Dorner, Steven Tucker, Abraham Zhang and Anna Heuber

25/02: A tale of three pandemics: Impacts on life expectancy and lifespan inequality

M.D.J.W. Wijesinghe, Michael Cameron, Susan Olivia and Les Oxley

25/01: The Impact of Homicide on State-Level Life Expectancy and Lifespan Inequality in the US, 1968-2020

M.D.J.W. Wijesinghe, Michael Cameron, Susan Olivia and Les Oxley

24/09: State Level Differences in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Inequality: Is it a Matter of Socioeconomic Inequalities?

M.D.J.W. Wijesinghe, Michael Cameron, Susan Olivia and Les Oxley

24/08: Luminosity and Local Economic Growth

John Gibson, Bonggeun Kim and Chao Li

24/07: How well do gridded population estimates proxy for actual population changes? Evidence from four gridded data products and three censuses for China

Xiaoxuan Zhang and John Gibson

24/06: The Effects of Emotions on Stated Preferences for Environmental Change: a re-examination

Yilong Xu, Mikolaj Czajkowski, Nick Hanley, Leonhard Lades, Charles Noussair and Steven Tucker

24/05: Two decades of inter-city migration in China: The role of economic, natural and social amenities

Zhihui Li, Chao Li, John Gibson and Xiangzheng Deng

24/04: Water Pollution Spillovers or Peer Effects? Determinants of Disease Outbreak in Shrimp Farming in Vietnam

Aya Suzuki, Susan Olivia, Vu Nam and Guenwoo Lee

24/03: Local economic effects of connecting to China's high-speed rail network: Evidence from spatial econometric models

Xiaoxuan Zhang and John Gibson

24/02: Motivations to speculate are the driving forces in experimental asset market bubbles

Steven Tucker and Yilong Xu

24/01: Nonspeculative Bubbles Revisited

Steven Tucker and Yilong Xu

23/09: Estimating and Applying Autoregression Models Via Their Eigensystem Representation

Leo Krippner

23/08: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Development

Waliu O. Shittu, Gazi Hassan and Frank G. Scrimgeour

23/07: The role of spillovers when evaluating regional development interventions: Evidence from administrative upgrading in China

Xiaoxuan Zhang, John Gibson and Chao Li

23/06: The Impact of Remittances on Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Remittance-recipient Countries: with Focus on Credit and Exchange Rate Channels

Jahan Abdul Raheem, Gazi Hassan and Mark Holmes

23/05: COVID-19 and the Role of Remittances on Sustainable Development: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

Waliu O. Shittu, Gazi Hassan and Frank G. Scrimgeour

23/04: Does economic openness matter in the impact of financial development on income inequality?

Roya Taherifar, Mark Holmes and Gazi Hassan

23/03: The drivers of labour share and impact on pay inequality: A firm-level investigation

Roya Taherifar, Mark Holmes and Gazi Hassan

23/02: Cumulative Excess Deaths in New Zealand in the COVID-19 Era: Biases from Ignoring Changes in Population Growth Rates

John Gibson

23/01: The Role of Emotions in Public Goods Games with and without Punishment Opportunities

Charles Noussair, Steven Tucker, Yilong Xu and Adriana Breaban

22/13: Remotely (and wrongly) too equal: Popular night-time lights data understate spatial inequality

Xiaoxuan Zhang, John Gibson and Xiangzheng Deng

22/12: Noisy Night Lights Data: Effects on Research Findings for Developing Countries

Omoniyi Alimi, Geua Boe-Gibson and John Gibson

22/11: The Rollout of COVID-19 Booster Vaccines is Associated With Rising Excess Mortality in New Zealand

John Gibson

22/10: Are Views of Water Bodies Related to Water Consumption? An Empirical Analysis from New Zealand

Robbie Maris and Yvonne Matthews

22/09: Migration, Remittances and Clean Fuel Usage in Sri Lanka: The Mediating Role of Household Wealth

J.M.D. Sandamali Wijayarathne, Gazi Hassan and Mark Holmes

22/08: Zipf's Law and #econtwitter

Michael Cameron

22/07: Zipf's Law across social media

Michael Cameron

22/06: How effective are sanctions on North Korea? Popular DMSP night-lights data may bias evaluations due to blurring and poor low-light detection

John Gibson, Bonggeun Kim and Geua Boe-Gibson

22/05: Revisiting the role of secondary towns: Effects of different types of urban growth on poverty in Indonesia

John Gibson, Yi Jiang and Bambang Susantono

22/04: The measurement of structural ageing - An axiomatic approach

Michael Cameron

22/03: The Price of Pet Ownership: Reduced Labour Mobility?

Robbie Maris and Michael Cameron

22/02: Do Remittances Increase Household Indebtedness: Evidence from a Cambodian Household Survey

Chan Mono Oum, Gazi Hassan and Mark Holmes

22/01: Impact of Microcredit on Labour Migration Decisions: Evidence from a Cambodian Household Survey

Chan Mono Oum, Gazi Hassan and Mark Holmes

21/15: Trading Institutions in Experimental Asset Markets: Theory and Evidence

Bulent Guler, Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Daniela Puzzello and Steven Tucker

21/14: Is performance affected by the CEO-Employee pay gap? Evidence from Australia

Roya Taherifar, Mark Holmes and Gazi Hassan

21/13: Mass Covid-19 Vaccination and Excess Mortality: Direct and Indirect Pathways

John Gibson

21/12: Towards a dynamic spatial microsimulation model for projecting Auckland's spatial distribution of ethnic groups

Mohana Mondal, Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

21/11: Jabbing the Economy Back to Life?

John Gibson

21/10: The Impact of Remittances on Monetary Transmission Mechanisms during the Pre and Post-Conflict Eras in Sri Lanka

Jahan Abdul Raheem, Gazi Hassan and Mark Holmes

21/09: Does the impact of cash transfers differ across poverty measures? Evidence from Pakistan

Zaira Najam and Susan Olivia

21/08: Two models for illustrating the economics of media bias in introductory economics

Michael Cameron

21/07: Does within-country poverty convergence depend on spatial spillovers and the type of poverty measure? Evidence from Pakistan

Zaira Najam and John Gibson

21/06: Direct Monetary Costs and Its Determinants in Migration Decisions: Case of Cross-Border Labour Migration from Cambodia to Thailand

Chan Mono Oum, Gazi Hassan and Mark Holmes

21/05: Non-Price Determinants of Energy Choice for Cooking: Empirical Evidence from Sri Lankan Households

J.M.D. Sandamali Wijayarathne, Gazi Hassan and Mark Holmes

21/04: Cost Efficiency Analysis using Operating Profit Margin for the New Zealand Dairy Industry

Robbie Maris and Zack Dorner

21/03: Rising Immigration and Falling Native-Born Home Ownership: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for New Zealand

Chao Li, John Gibson and Geua Boe-Gibson

21/02: The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education students in New Zealand

Michael Cameron, Barbara Fogarty-Perry and Gemma Piercy

21/01: A veil of ignorance: uncertain and ambiguous individual productivity supports stable contributions to a public good

Zack Dorner, Steven Tucker and Gazi Hassan

20/11: An Anchor in Stormy Seas: Does Reforming Economic Institutions Reduce Uncertainty? Evidence from New Zealand

Michael Ryan