Working Papers in Economics

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10/09: The Regional Economic Impact of the 2009 New Zealand National Masters Hockey Tournament

Bridget Daldy and Matthew Saunders

10/08: The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy: New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Scheme

John Gibson and David McKenzie

10/07: Can We Trust Cluster-Corrected Standard Errors? An Application of Spatial Autocorrelation with Exact Locations Known

John Gibson, Bonggeun Kim and Susan Olivia

10/06: An Assessment of the Benefits of Cleaner Streams: A New Zealand Case Study

Dan Marsh and Lena Mkwara

10/05: The Economic Consequences of ‘Brain Drain’ of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

John Gibson and David McKenzie

10/04: Does Respondent Perception of the Status Quo Matter in Non-Market Valuation with Choice Experiments? An Application to New Zealand Freshwater Streams

Dan Marsh, Lena Mkwara and Riccardo Scarpa

10/03: The Merits of Using Citation-Based Journal Weighting Schemes to Measure Research Performance in Economics: The Case of New Zealand

David Anderson and John Tressler

10/02: A Summary of Ecosystem Service Economic Valuation Methods and Recommendations for Future Studies

Pamela Kaval

10/01: ASEAN-New Zealand Trade Relations and Trade Potential

Sayeeda Bano

09/13: Modelling a Regime-Shifting New Zealand Beveridge Curve

Richard Dutu, Mark Holmes and Brian Silverstone

09/11: The Value of Native Bird Conservation: A New Zealand Case Study

Pamela Kaval and Matthew Roskruge

09/10: The Links between Poverty and the Environment in Malawi

Bentry Mkwara and Dan Marsh

09/09: Commercial Bank Loan Loss Recoveries

Kurt Hess and Arthur Grimes

09/08: Do Returns to Schooling Go Up During Transition? The Not So Contrary Case of Vietnam

Tinh Doan and John Gibson

09/07: The Excellence in Research for Australia Scheme: An Evaluation of the Draft Journal Weights for Economics

David Anderson and John Tressler

09/06: International Trade Agreements and International Migration

Jacques Poot and Anna Strutt

09/05: The Economic Value of Biodiversity in New Zealand: Results from a Household Survey

Pamela Kaval, Richard Yao and Francis Scrimgeour

09/04: Evaluating the Welfare Effects of Biodiversity on Private Lands: A Choice Modelling Application

Richard Yao and Pamela Kaval

09/03: Ranking Economics Departments in Terms of Residual Productivity: New Zealand Economics Departments, 2000-2006

David Anderson and John Tressler

09/02: The Connection between Biodiversity and Well-Being: A New Zealand Case Study

Richard Yao and Pamela Kaval

09/01: Job Vacancy Monitoring in New Zealand

Brian Silverstone and Victoria Wall

08/20: An Analysis of New Zealand Economists' Research Output 2000-2006

David Anderson and John Tresler

08/19: Which Households Are Most Distant from Health Centers in Rural China? Evidence from a GIS Network Analysis

John Gibson, Xiangzheng Deng, Geua Boe-Gibson, Scott Rozelle and Jikun Huang

08/18: Preliminary Impacts of a New Seasonal Work Program on Rural Household Incomes in the Pacific

John Gibson and David McKenzie

08/17: The Effect of Infrastructure Access and Quality on Non-Farm Enterprises in Rural Indonesia

John Gibson and Susan Olivia

08/16: The Rising Public Sector Pay Premium in the New Zealand Labour Market

John Gibson

08/15: Using Panel Data to Exactly Estimate Under-Reporting by the Self-Employed

John Gibson, Bonggeun Kim and Chul Chung

08/14: Mapping Poverty in Rural China: How Much Does the Environment Matter?

Susan Olivia, John Gibson, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang and Xiangzheng Deng

08/13: Dairying in the Waikato Region of New Zealand: An Overview of Historical Statistics

Michael Cameron and Kendon Bell

08/12: Migration, Relationship Capital and International Travel: Theory and Evidence

Philip McCann, Jacques Poot and Lynda Sanderson

08/11: Do Research Assessment Exercises Raise the Returns to Publication Quality? Evidence from the New Zealand Market for Academic Economists

John Gibson, John Tressler and David Anderson

08/10: Credit Losses in Australasian Banking

Kurt Hess, Arthur Grimes and Mark Holmes

08/09: Who is Coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand under the New Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Program?

David McKenzie, Pilar Garcia Martinez and L. Winters

08/08: How Pro-Poor is the Selection of Seasonal Migrant Workers from Tonga under New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Program?

John Gibson, David McKenzie and Halahingano Rohorua

08/07: Valuing Biodiversity Enhancement in New Zealand

Richard Yao and Pamela Kaval

08/06: The Value of Native Birds in New Zealand: Results of a Waikato Survey

Pamela Kaval and Matthew Roskruge

08/05: Research Output in New Zealand Economics Department 2000-2006

David Anderson and John Tressler

08/04: The Value of Statistical Life and Cost-Benefit Evaluations of Landmine Clearance in Cambodia

Michael Cameron, John Gibson, Kent Helmers, Steven Lim, John Tressler and Kien Vaddanak

08/03: How Much New Saving will KiwiSaver Produce?

John Gibson and Trinh Le

08/02: The Distributional Impact of KiwiSaver Incentives

John Gibson, Chris Hector and Trinh Le

08/01: Agglomeration Externalities, Innovation and Regional Growth: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Henri de Groot, Jacques Poot and Martijn Smit

07/25: The Business of Social Responsibility: Evidence from the Garment Industry in Northeast Thailand

Steven Lim and Michael Cameron

07/24: Using flexible taste distributions to value collective reputation for environmentally-friendly production methods

Riccardo Scarpa, Mara Thiene and Francesco Marangon

07/23: Moving to Opportunity, Leaving Behind What? Evaluating the Initial Effects of a Migration Policy on Incomes and Poverty in Source Areas

David McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman

07/22: The Value of Native Biodiversity Enhancement in New Zealand: A Case Study of the Greater Wellington Area

Pamela Kaval, Richard Yao and Terry Parminter

07/21: Designs Efficiency for Non-market Valuation with Choice Modelling: How to Measure It, What to Report and Why

John Rose and Riccardo Scarpa

07/20: The Public Sector Pay Premium and Compensating Differentials in the New Zealand Labour Market

John Gibson

07/19: Business Confidence and Cyclical Turning Points: A Markov-Switching Approach

Mark Holmes and Brian Silverstone

07/18: Incorporating Discontinuous Preferences into the Analysis of Discrete Choice Experiments

Danny Campbell, W. George Hutchinson and Riccardo Scarpa

07/17: Non Market Valuation in New Zealand:1974 through 2005

Richard Yao and Pamela Kaval