Working Papers in Economics

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14/03: Cash Inflows and Bubbles in Asset Markets with Constant Fundamental Values

Charles Noussair and Steven Tucker

14/02: Agglomeration Economies in China: Locations and Effects

Chao Li and John Gibson

14/01: Consequences of Public Programs and Private Transfers on Household Investment in Storm Protection

Sakib Mahmud and Gazi Hassan

13/16: Growth Effects of Remittances:Is there a U-Shaped Relationship?

Gazi Hassan and Mohammed S. Bhuyan

13/13: Why Size Maters: Investigating the Drivers of Innovation and Economic Performance in New Zealand using the Business Operation Survey

Les Oxley, Shangqin Hong and Philip McCann

13/12: Beyond ‘the Beamer, the boat and the bach’? A Content Analysis-Based Case Study of New Zealand Innovative Firms

Les Oxley, Shangqin Hong and Philip McCann

13/11: Are Remittances Conflict-Abating in Recipient Countries?

Gazi Hassan and Joao Ricardo Faria

13/10: Effects of Male and Female Education on Economic Growth: Some Evidence from Asia Using the Extreme Bounds Analysis

Gazi Hassan and Arusha Cooray

13/09: Respiratory Health of Pacific Island Immigrants and Preferences for Indoor Air Quality Determinants in New Zealand

John Gibson, Riccardo Scarpa and Halahingano Rohorua

13/08: Can Social Media Predict Election Results? Evidence from New Zealand

Michael Cameron, Patrick Barrett and Bob Stewardson

13/07: Testing Hicksian Separability Over Space

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

13/06: Spatial Price Differences and Inequality in China: Housing Market Evidence

Chao Li and John Gibson

13/05: Factors Associated with Financial Literacy among High School Students

Michael Cameron, Richard Calderwood, Ashleigh Cox, Steven Lim and Michio Yamaoka

13/04: Personal Financial Literacy Among High School Students in New Zealand, Japan and the United States

Michael Cameron, Richard Calderwood, Ashleigh Cox, Steven Lim and Michio Yamaoka

13/03: The New Zealand Performance Based Research Fund and its Impact on Publication Activity in Economics

David Anderson and John Tressler

13/02: Scientific Mobility and Knowledge Networks in High Emigration Countries: Evidence from the Pacific

John Gibson and David McKenzie

13/01: What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal About the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?

John Gibson, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Jed Friedman

12/17: Which Future for the Hurunui? Combining Choice Analysis with Stakeholder Consultation

Dan Marsh and Yvonne Phillips

12/16: Do the Urban Poor Face Higher Food Prices? Evidence from Vietnam

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

12/15: Estimating the Final Size of an Online User Base

Steven Lim

12/14: What Can Growth Rates Tell Us? A Short-Run Decomposition Method

Steven Lim, Jason Le Vaillant and Harry Wu

12/13: Can Concentration Control Policies Eliminate Bubbles?

Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Daniela Puzzello, Steven Tucker and Arlington Williams

12/12: Firm Exporting and Employee Benefits: First Evidence from Vietnam Manufacturing SMEs

Huong Vu, Steven Lim, Mark Holmes and Tinh Doan

12/11: The Marginal Willingness-to-Pay for Attributes of a Hypothetical HIV Vaccine

Michael Cameron, Peter A. Newman, Surachet Roungprakhon and Riccardo Scarpa

12/10: Which Journal Rankings Best Explain Academic Salaries? Evidence from the University of California

John Gibson, David Anderson and John Tressler

12/09: Rising Regional Inequality in China: Fact or Artefact?

Chao Li and John Gibson

12/08: Classic and Spatial Shift-Share Analysis of State-Level Employment Change in Brazil

Valente J. Matlaba, Mark Holmes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot

12/07: Agglomeration Externalities and 1981-2006 Regional Growth in Brazil

Valente J. Matlaba, Mark Holmes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot

12/06: Using Engel Curves to Measure CPI Bias for Indonesia

Susan Olivia and John Gibson

12/05: NCEA Level 3 Economics and Economic Literacy in Introductory Economics at University

Michael Cameron and Rebecca Williams

12/04: The Relevance of the ‘h’ and ‘g’ Index to Economics in the Context of a Nation-wide Research Evaluation Scheme: The New Zealand Case

David Anderson and John Tressler

12/03: Evaluating Research - Peer Review Team Assessment and Journal-Based Bibliographic Measures: New Zealand PBRF Research Output Scores in 2006

David Anderson, Warren Smart and John Tressler

12/02: A Regional Model of Endogenous Growth with Creative Destruction

Steven Bond-Smith

12/01: A Mathematical Optimisation Model of a New Zealand Dairy Farm: The Integrated Dairy Enterprise (IDEA) Framework

Graeme Doole, Alvaro J. Romera and Alfredo A. Adler

11/16: Quality, Quantity and Nutritional Impact of Rice Price Changes in Vietnam

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

11/15: Gross Labour Market Flows in New Zealand: Some Questions and Answers

Brian Silverstone and Will Bell

11/14: Effects of Maize Fertilizer Subsidies on Food Security in Malawi

Bentry Mkwara and Dan Marsh

11/13: Evaluation of Agri-Environmental Policies for Water Quality Improvement Accounting for Firm Heterogeneity

Graeme Doole, Dan Marsh and Thiagaragah Ramilan

11/12: A Century of the Evolution of the Urban System in Brazil

Valente J. Matlaba, Mark Holmes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot

11/11: The Merits of Using Citations to Measure Research Output in Economics Departments: The New Zealand Case

David Anderson and John Tressler

11/10: Household Credit to the Poor and its Impact on Child Schooling in Peri-urban Areas, Vietnam

Tinh Doan, John Gibson and Mark Holmes

11/09: Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme (PSWPS): Development Impacts in the First Two Years

John Gibson and David McKenzie

11/08: New Zealand Kiwifruit Export Performance: Market Analysis and Revealed Comparative Advantage

Sayeeda Bano and Francis Scrimgeour

11/07: Bibliography of Research using the NZIER’s Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion

Robert Buckle and Brian Silverstone

11/06: Impacts of Household Credit on Education and Healthcare Spending by the Poor in Peri-urban Areas in Vietnam

Tinh Doan, John Gibson and Mark Holmes

11/05: Recognising and Building on Freshman Students' Prior Knowledge of Economics

Michael Cameron

11/04: Modelling the Impact of Policies to Reduce Environmental Impacts in the New Zealand Dairy Sector

Anna Strutt and Allan N. Rae

11/03: How Reliable are Household Expenditures as a Proxy for Permanent Income? Implications for the Income-Nutrition Relationship

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

11/02: ‘Economics with Training Wheels’:Using Blogs in Teaching and Assessing Introductory Economics

Michael Cameron

11/01: Heterogeneous Credit Impacts of Healthcare Spending of the Poor in Peri-urban Areas, Vietnam: Quantile Treatment Effects Estimation

Tinh Doan, John Gibson and Mark Holmes