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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

20/10: A Narrative Approach to Creating Instruments with Unstructured and Voluminous Text: An Application to Policy Uncertainty

Michael Ryan

20/09: Nonspeculative Bubbles Revisited: Speculation Does Matter

Steven Tucker and Yilong Xu

20/08: Hard, Not Early: Putting the New Zealand Covid-19 Response in Context

John Gibson

20/07: Effects of International Migration on Child Schooling and Child Labour: Evidence from Nepal

Hari Sharma and John Gibson

20/06: Government Mandated Lockdowns Do Not Reduce Covid-19 Deaths: Implications for Evaluating the Stringent New Zealand Response

John Gibson

20/05: Determinants of Ethnic Identity among Adolescents: Evidence from New Zealand

Mohana Mondal, Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

20/04: Aye Corona! The Contagion Effects of Being Named Corona During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Shaen Corbet, Yang (Greg) Hou, Yang Hu, Brian Lucey and Les Oxley

20/03: Three Facts About Night Lights Data

John Gibson and Geua Boe-Gibson

20/02: Deforestation and Resource Conflicts in Papua New Guinea

John Gibson

20/01: The Causal Impact of Trade on Migration: A Gravity Model Estimation

Rosmaiza Abdul Ghani, Michael Cameron, William Cochrane and Matthew Roskruge

19/16: The Role of Corporate Governance and Estimation Methods in Predicting Bankruptcy

Nawaf Almaskati, Ron Bird, Yue Lu and Danny Leung

19/15: Corporate Governance, Information Uncertainty and Market Reaction to Information Signals

Nawaf Almaskati, Ron Bird, Yue Lu and Danny Leung

19/14: New Zealand as a Niche Player in World Markets

Ralph G. Lattimore

19/13: Spot and Futures Prices of Bitcoin: Causality, Cointegration and Price Discovery from a Time-Varying Perspective

Yang Hu, Yang (Greg) Hou and Les Oxley

19/12: Can Economic Policy Uncertainty, Volume, Transaction Activity and Twitter Predict Bitcoin? Evidence from Time-Varying Granger Causality Tests

Yang Hu, Les Oxley and Chunlin Lang

19/11: A Test of DMSP and VIIRS Night Lights Data for Estimating GDP and Spatial Inequality for Rural and Urban Areas

John Gibson, Susan Olivia and Geua Boe-Gibson

19/10: The Composition of New Zealand Exports 1989-2018

Ralph G. Lattimore

19/09: Corporate Governance, Institutions, Markets and Social Factors

Nawaf Almaskati, Ron Bird and Susanna Lu

19/08: Testing an Information Intervention: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Jamie Oliver on Fizzy Drinks Demand

John Gibson, Steven Tucker and Geua Boe-Gibson

19/07: The Effects of Immigration on Local Housing Markets

Bill Cochrane and Jacques Poot

19/06: Civil War and International Migration from Nepal: Evidence from a Spatial Durbin Model

Hari Sharma and John Gibson