Working Papers in Economics

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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

19/05: The Characteristics of the Informal Sector in Timor-Leste

Helio Mau-Quei and Michael Cameron

19/04: Designing Call Auction Institutions to Eliminate Price Bubbles: Is English Dutch the Best?

Cary Deck, Maroš Servátka and Steven Tucker

19/03: Economic and Cultural Residential Sorting of Auckland’s Population 1991-2013: An Entropy Approach

Mohana Mondal, Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

19/02: A Gravity Model Estimation of the Bi-Directional Relationship between International Trade and Migration

Rosmaiza A. Ghani, Michael Cameron, William Cochrane and Matthew Roskruge

19/01: Sustainability and Wellbeing: A Text Analysis of New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, Official Yearbooks and Ministerial Documents

Mubashir Qasim

18/14: Interventions to Mitigate Indoor Air Pollution: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Muhammad Irfan, Michael Cameron and Gazi Hassan

18/13: Some Links between Sustainability and Well-Being

Mubashir Qasim

18/12: Regional Inequality in China allowing for Spatial Cost-of-Living Differences: Evidence from a Hedonic Analysis of Apartment Prices

Chao Li and John Gibson

18/11: The Causal Impact of Solid Fuel Use on Mortality: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis

Muhammad Irfan, Michael Cameron and Gazi Hassan

18/10: What are Migrants Willing to Pay for Better Home Country Institutions?: The Case of Viet Nam

Ngoc Tran, Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

18/09: Group-Size Bias in the Measurement of Residential Sorting

Mohana Mondal, Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

18/08: Improved Modelling of Spatial Cost of Living Differences in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Expert Knowledge and Traditional Price Surveys

John Gibson and Trinh Le

18/07: Ambiguity Attitudes in the Loss Domain: Decisions for Self versus Others

Yilong Xu, Xiaogeng Xu and Steven Tucker

18/06: Local Competitiveness and Labour Market Returns in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Vietnam

Tinh Doan, Tuyen Tran and Hien Nguyen

18/05: An Empirical Examination of the J-Curve: New Zealand's Bilateral Trade with Selected Countries

Sayeeda Bano and Gazi Hassan

18/04: Return or Not Return? The Role of Home-Country Institutional Quality in Vietnamese Migrants’ Return Intentions

Ngoc Tran, Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

18/03: The Micro-Geography of Academic Research:How Distinctive is Economics?

John Gibson

18/02: Home Ownership and Political Participation: Longitudinal Evidence Suggests There is No Causal Relationship

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

18/01: The Estimation and Interpretation of Coefficients in Panel Gravity Models of Migration

Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

17/28: Households’ Energy Mix Selection in Pakistan

Muhammad Irfan, Michael Cameron and Gazi Hassan

17/27: Are Preferences for Food Quality Attributes Really Normally Distributed? An Analysis Using Flexible Mixing Distributions

Vincenzina Caputo, Riccardo Scarpa, Rodolfo Nayga and David Ortega

17/26: New Zealand and Indian Trade in Agricultural and Manufactured Products: An Empirical Analysis

Sayeeda Bano and Francis Scrimgeour

17/25: Prospect Theory and Earnings Manipulation: Examination of the Non-Uniform Relationship between Earnings Manipulation and Stock Returns Using Quantile Regression

Leon Li and Nen-Chen Richard Hwang

17/24: Is there a Trade-Off between Accrual-Based and Real Earnings Management? Evidence from Equity Compensation and Market Pricing

Leon Li

17/23: A Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Logit-Mixed Logit under Asymmetry and Multimodality

Riccardo Scarpa, Cristiano Franceschinis and Mara Thiene

17/22: The Organizing Framework of Ecosystem Services and its use in River Management

Pamela Kaval and Marjan van den Belt

17/21: Cash versus Extra-Credit Incentives in Experimental Asset Markets

Steven Tucker, Shuze Ding, Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Daniela Puzzello and Arlington Williams

17/20: Bubble Contagion: Evidence from Japan's Asset Price Bubble of the 1980-90s

Yang Hu and Les Oxley

17/19: Do 18th Century 'Bubbles' Survive the Scrutiny of 21st Century Time Series Econometrics?

Yang Hu and Les Oxley