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Discussion Papers

ISSN 0111-1760 (Print)
ISSN 1178-2293 (Online)

2008 Series

0807: David Fielding
Inflation Volatility and Economic Development: Evidence from Nigeria (pdf 184k)

0806: Jan-Jan Soon
The determinants of international students' return intention (pdf 171k)

0805: Willie Lahari, Alfred A. Haug & Arlene Garces-Ozanne
Estimating quarterly GDP Data for the South Pacific Island Nations (pdf 316k)

0804: Kevin Duncan, Peter Philips & Mark Prus
The Union Threat Effect in Construction: An Illustration with Data from Plumber and Pipefitter Union Locals (pdf 200k)

0803: Ngo Van Long & Frank Stähler
A Contest Model of Liberalizing Government Procurements (pdf 166k)

0802: Arlene Ozanne & Phyll Esplin
To work or not to work ... that is the question: A classroom experiment on how the labour market operates (pdf 124k)

0801: Niven Winchester
Is there a dirty little secret? Non-tariff barriers and the gains from trade (pdf 226k)

 

2007 Series

0715: Niven Winchester
Shifting the 'goal posts': What is the optimal allocation of Super Rugby competition points? (pdf 226k)

1714: W Robert J Alexander, Alfred A. Haug & Mohammad Jaforullah
A two-stage double-bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency differences in New Zealand secondary schools (pdf 234k)

0713: Alvin Etang, David Fielding & Stephen Knowles
Survey Trust, Experimental Trust and ROSCA Membership in Rural Cameroon (pdf 141k)

0712: Alfred A. Haug & Syed A. Basher
Linear or Nonlinear Cointegration in the Purchasing Power Parity Relationship? (pdf 327k)

0711: Jørgen Drud Hansen & Jørgen Ulff-Møller Nielsen
Market Integration, Choice of Technology and Welfare (pdf 206k)

0710: Ngo Van Long, Horst Raff & Frank Stähler
The Effecets of Trade Liberalization on Productivity and Welfare: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity, R&D and Market Structure (pdf 216k)

0709: Martin Richardson & Frank Stähler
Fair Trade (pdf 319k)

0708: Hans Jarle Kind & Frank Stähler
Another Tale of Two-Sided Markets (pdf 150k)

0707: Alfred A. Haug and Christie Smith
Local linear impulse responses for a small open economy (pdf 432k)

0706: Peter J. Lambert
Positional equity and equal sacrifice: design principles for an EU-wide income tax? (pdf 172k)

0705: Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, Peri Silva & Gerald Willmann
Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India (pdf 256k)

0704: David Fielding & Stephen Knowles
Measuring Aid Effectively in Tests of Aid Effectiveness (pdf 63k)

0703: David Fielding
Aid and Dutch Disease in the South Pacific (pdf 97k)

0702: David Fielding & Kalvinder Shields
Regional Asymmetries in the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on Prices: Evidence from US Cities (pdf 123k)

0701: Scott McCracken & Frank Stähler
Economic integration and the choice of commodity tax base with endogenous market structures (pdf 219k)

 

2006 Series

0609: Frank Stähler
Newspapers and Advertising: The Effects of Ad-Valorem Taxation under Duopoly (pdf 575k)

0608: Frank Stähler
Trade Policy and Public Ownership (pdf 922k)

0607: Arlene Garces Ozanne
A Bounds Test Approach to the Study of Level Relationships in a Panel of High-performing Asian Economies (HPAES) (pdf 194k)

0606: Niven Winchester
Trade and Rising Wage Inequality: What can we learn from a Decade of Computable General Equilibrium Analysis? (pdf 193k)

0605: Niven Winchester
Searching for the Smoking Gun: Did Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers?(pdf 198k)

0604: Stephen Knowles and Clayton Weatherson
Informal Institutions and Cross-Country Income Differences (pdf 262k)

0603: M. Richardson and Niven Winchester
More (or Less) on Necessarily Welfare-Enhancing Free Trade Areas (pdf 297k)

0602: P. Dorian Owen, Michael Ryan and Clayton R. Weatherston
"Measuring Competitive Balance in Professional Team Sports Using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index" (pdf 220k)

0601: David Fielding and Madeline Penny
"What Causes Changes in Opinion about the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process?" (pdf 261k)

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2005 Series

0529: Niven Winchester, David Greenaway and Geoffrey V. Reed
Skill Classification and the Effects of Trade on Wage Inequality (pdf 214k)

0528: Niven Winchester and David Greenaway
Rising Wage Inequality and Capital-Skill Complementarity (pdf 216k)

0527: Benoît Julien, John Kennes and Ian King
"Residual Wage Disparity and Coordination Unemployment" (pdf 463k)

0526: Benoît Julien, John Kennes and Ian King
"Monetary Exchange with Multilateral Matching" (pdf 409k)

0525: Benoît Julien, John Kennes and Ian King
"The Mortensen Rule and Efficient Coordination Unemployment" (pdf 193K)

0524: Niven Winchester
"A Classroom Tariff Setting Game" (pdf 807k)

0523: Niven Winchester
"Chasing the Rising Sun: A Computable General Equilibruim Evaluation of Potential Australasia-Japan FTAs" (pdf 180k)

0522: Frank Stähler
"Partial Ownership and Cross-Border Mergers" (pdf 279k)

0521: Horst Raff, Michael Ryan and Frank Stähler
"Asset Ownership and Foreign-Market Entry" (pdf 343k)

0520:Paul Hansen & Franz Ombler
(pdf not available) "A new method for scoring additive points systems, based on potentially all pairwise rankings of all possible alternatives"

0519: Benoît Julien, John Kennes and Ian King
"Implementing the Mortensen Rule" (pdf 328k)

0518: Benoît Julien, John Kennes and Ian King
"Directed Search without Price Directions" (pdf 358k)

0517: Merwan Engineer, Ian King and Nilanjana Roy
"The human development index as a criterion for optimal planning" (pdf 133k)

0516:Frank Stähler
"A Model of Outsourcing and Foreign Direct Investment" (pdf 238k)

0515: Daniel P. McMillen and Paul Thorsnes
"Housing Renovations and the Quantile Repeat Sales Price Index" (pdf 221k)

0514: Paul Thorsnes and John Reifel
"Tiebout Dynamics: A Small-Area Study of the Response to a Central-City / Suburban House-Price Differential" (pdf 626k)

0513:Horst Raff, Michael Ryan and Frank Stähler
"The Choice of Market Entry Mode: Greenfield Investment, M&A and Joint Ventures" (pdf 271k)

0512: Eberhard Feess and Frank Stähler
"Revenue Sharing in Professional Sports Leagues" (pdf 285k)

0511: Peter Dawson, Stephen Dobson, John Goddard and John Wilson
"Are football referees really biased and inconsistent? Evidence from the English Premier League" (pdf 218k)

0510: Tommy Lundgren
"Measuring Regional Welfare Considering Natural and Cultural Resources" (pdf 221k)

0509: David Fielding and Kalvinder Shields
"Asymmetries in the Effects of MOnetary Policy: The Case of South Africa" (pdf 203k)

0508: David Fielding and George Mavrotas
"The Volatility of Aid" (pdf 283k)

0507: David Fielding and Anja Shortland
"An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth." A Study of Political Violence and Counter-insurgency in Egypt (pdf232k)

0506: David Fielding and Anja Shortland
Are Americans more Gung-Ho than Europeans? Evidence from Tourism in Israel during the Intifada (pdf 310k)

0505: David Fielding and Sebastian Torres
Health, Wealth, Fertility, Education and Inequality (pdf 264k)

0504: David Fielding and Sebastian Torres
Cows and Conquistadors A Comment on the Colonial Origins of Comparative Development (pdf 255k)

0503: Niven Winchester
Liberating Middle Earth: How will Changes in the Global Trading System Affect New Zealand? (pdf 234k)

0502: Phillip J Hall
Resolving a Public Good Dilemma using Reward and Sanction Mechanisms (pdf 212k)

0501: W Robert J Alexander and Mohammad Jaforullah
Scale and pure efficiencies of New Zealand secondary schools (pdf 256k)

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2004 Series

0408: P D Owen and C R Weatherston
Uncertainty of Outcome, Player Quality and Attendance at National Provincial Championship Rugby Union Matches: An Evaluation in Light of the Competitions Review (pdf 428k)

0407: V Schneider
Simulating the Effects of Marine Reserves as an Additional Management Tool to Paua Harvest Around Stewart Island: An Economic Analysis (pdf 355k) [without graphs]
Graphs for DP0407 (pdf 800k)

0406: W R J Alexander, J D Bell and S Knowles
Quantifying Compliance Costs of Small Businesses in New Zealand (pdf 395k)

0405: R Q Grafton, T Kompas, V Schneider
The Bioeconomics of Marine Reserves:A Selected Review with Policy Implications (pdf 262k)

0404: A Peterson
Price Effects Associated with Changes in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index Composition: The Removal and Replacement of Seven Non-U.S. Companies
(pdf 294k)

0403: W R J Alexander, M Jaforullah
Explaining efficiency differences of New Zealand secondary schools (pdf 248k)

0402: N Winchester
Capital-Skill Complementarity and Rising Wage Inequality in the UK (pdf 227k)

0401: N Winchester
Classroom Tariff Wars: A Tariff Setting Game (pdf 746k)

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2003 Series

0308: R Q Grafton, T Kompas, P Van Ha
On Marine Reserves: Rents, Resilience and ‘Rules of Thumb’ (pdf 165k)

0307: R Q Grafton, F Jotzo, M Wasson
Financing SD:Country Undertakings and Rights for Environmental Sustainability
(pdf 270k)

0306: M Jaforullah, E Premachandra
Sensitivity of Technical Efficiency Estimates to Estimation Approaches: An Investigation Using New Zealand Diary Industry Data (pdf 385k)

0305: S Dobson, J Goddard, C Ramlogan
Convergence in developing countries: evidence from panel unit root tests (pdf 1028k)

0304: R Q Grafton, T Kompas, P D Owen
Productivity, factor accumulation and social networks: theory and evidence (pdf 721k)

0303: N Winchester, M Richardson
ANZUS Free Trade agreements: results from a global model. (pdf 1023k)

0302: S Dobson, C Ramlogan, E Strobl
Why do rates of ß-convergence differ? A meta-regression analysis (pdf 1093k)

0301: S Dobson, C Ramlogan, E Strobl
Cross-country growth and convergence: a semi-parametric analysis (pdf 241k)

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2002 Series

0214: P D Owen, C Weatherston
Professionalisation of New Zealand Rugby Union: Historical background, structural changes and competitive balance (pdf 835k)

0213: P D Owen
General-to-specific modelling using PcGets (pdf 453k)

0212: S Knowles, J McCombie
Erkin Bairam: 1958-2001. His contribution to Economics (pdf 282k)

0211: P D Owen, C Weatherston
Uncertainty of outcome and Super 12 rugby union attendance:Application of a general-to-specific modelling strategy (pdf 739k)

0210: J Wallis, B Dollery
Cultural change within the New Zealand and Australian Treasuries (pdf 306k)

0209: S Knowles
Does social capital affect foreign aid allocations? (pdf 439k)

0208: J Wallis, B Dollery
Economic theories of the voluntary sector: a survey of government failure and market failure approaches (pdf 229k)

0207: J Wallis, B Dollery
Local government capacity and social capital (pdf 187k)

0206: J Wallis, B Dollery
Styles of policy leadership and local government reform (pdf 234k)

0205: S Knowles, R Q Grafton
National environmental performance: a cross-sectional analysis (pdf 1229k)

0204: W R J Alexander, H J Sutherland
The occupational distribution of Maori 1997-2000 (pdf 897k)

0203: J Wallis, B Dollery
Policy leadership styles and the process of paradigmatic policy change: Three propositions (pdf 284k)

0202: J Wallis, B Dollery
Leadership and economic theories of non-profit organizations (pdf 224)

0201: J Wallis
An Elsterian analysis of hope and hate groups (pdf 216k)

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2001 Series

0122: P McKenzie
What has been the impact of fiscal policy on long-term interest rates in New Zealand? (pdf 734k)

0121: B Dollery, J Wallis
Local government failure (pdf 208k)

0120: B Dollery, J Wallis
A new institutional perspective on alternative governance mechanisms at the local government level (pdf 335k)

0119: W Chetwin, E I Bairam
The effects of international trade on employment: heterogeneity among 2-digit ISIC manufacturing industries(pdf 834k)

0118: J Wallis, B Dollery
Cultural change within the New Zealand and Australian treasuries (pdf 234k)

0117: J Felipe, JSL McCombie
A problem with some estimations and interpretations of the mark-up in manufacturing industry (pdf 1229k)

0116: J Felipe, JSL McCombie
How sound are the foundations of the aggregate production function? (pdf 897k)

0115: I Sanz, F J Velázquez
The composition of public expenditure and growth: different models of government expenditure, distribution by functions. (pdf 284k)

0114: J Wallis, B Dollery
Cultural re-invention within the New Zealand Treasury (pdf 224)

0113: J Wallis
Different perspectives on leadership in the New Zealand Public Sector: the curious case of Christine Rankin (pdf 216k)

0112: E Bairam
(pdf not available) How to improve the teaching of econometrics to undergraduates

0111: J Parker
Pharmaceutical patent extensions in New Zealand 1953 - 1995
(pdf 255k)

0110: WRJ Alexander, RS McDougall
Collaborative problem solving in student learning
(pdf 422k)

0109: WRJ Alexander
Ethnic gaps and ethnic ratios
(pdf 138k)

0108: WRJ Alexander, M Genç, M Jaforullah
Maori disadvantage in the labour market
(pdf 705k)

0107: WRJ Alexander, J R Williams
A critique of "Maori socio-economic disparity"
(pdf 212k)

0106: E Bairam, K Kulkolkarn
Human capital, production and growth in East Asia
(pdf 842k)

0105: S Knowles
Inequality and economic growth: the empirical relationship reconsidered in the light of comparable data
(pdf 685k)

0104: M Richardson
(pdf not available) Quality and congestion in enviromental goods. The road to the Wangapeka.

0103: D Feldman, M Richardson
(pdf not available) Trade creation and residual quota protection in a free trade area with domestic monopoly

0102: M Richardson
Unilateral liberalisation in a multilateral world
(pdf 221k)

0101: M Perkins, N Devlin, P Hansen
Maori health state preferences: a pilot study
(pdf 298k)

 

For other working papers please visit the School of Business Digital Repository at http://eprints.otago.ac.nz/view/affiliations/ECON_WP.html

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