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EcoNZ@Otago

Welcome to EcoNZ@Otago! ... A magazine about contemporary economic issues

Since 1998, EcoNZ@Otago has been published by the Department of Economics at the University of Otago, usually in January and July each year.

Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) versions of the most recent issues of EcoNZ@Otago are available below. An index of articles in previous issues appears at the end of the current issue. Paper copies of single previous issues are also available on request.

In addition, 40 of the best articles from EcoNZ@Otago, Issues 1 to 11, have been updated and revised and published in a book by Pearson Education: Keeping Economics Real: New Zealand Economic Issues. An information sheet from Pearson is reproduced below and at the end of Issue 13.

If you have suggestions for future articles, then please email your suggestions to: econz@otago.ac.nz

Or write to:
EcoNZ@Otago
Department of Economics
University of Otago
PO Box 56, Dunedin

We hope that you find the articles interesting and useful.

Niven Winchester, Editor.

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Issue 20
(February 2008)
  • New Zealand beneficiaries
  • The end of oil
  • Measuring Trust
  • Inflation and monetary policy
  • Commentary on the NZ economy
February 2008
Issue 19
(August 2007)
  • Poverty and the Grameen bank
  • Exchange rate intervention
  • Super Rugby Competition points
  • NZ's current account deficit
  • Commentary on the NZ economy
August 2007
Issue 18
(February 2007)
  • Food Miles
  • A common currency with Australia
  • The growth rate of cities
  • Globalization and the nation state
  • Commentary on the NZ economy
February07.pdf
Issue 17
(September 2006)
  • Football refereeing and inconsistency
  • Social capital
  • Global trade liberalisation and NZ
  • An interview with a Nobel Prize winner
  • Commentary on the NZ economy
  • Studying economics
September06.pdf
Issue 16
(March 2006)
  • Immigration to NZ
  • Efficiency of NZ's secondary schools
  • Economic development
  • Monetary policy in the Caribbean
  • Commentary on the NZ Economy
March06.pdf
Issue 15
(September 2005)
  • Baseball and cricket batting
  • Foreign aid and debt forgiveness
  • Foreign direct investment
  • Answers about financial options
  • NZ's terms of trade
  • Commentary on the NZ economy
September05.pdf
Issue 14
(February 2005)
  • Marine reserves and paua
  • 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Trade liberalisation and NZ
  • Financial options
  • Commentary on the NZ economy
February05.pdf
Issue 13
( July 2004)
  • Whaling
  • Compliance Costs
  • Bilateral Trade
  • A New Land Tax
  • Commentary on the NZ Economy
July04.pdf
Issue 12
( February 2004)
  • Trade Liberalisation
  • The Phillips Curve
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Futures Contracts
  • Commentary on the NZ Economy
February04.pdf

 

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