Niven Winchester

BCom(Hons) (Otago) MEc (ANU) PhD (Nottingham)

Niven's research relates to international trade and computable general equilibrium modelling. Recent research focuses on the cause(s) of rising wage inequality in developed nations and evaluating how current and proposed changes in the global trading environment will affect New Zealand.

Contact Details

Office: CO726
Tel 64 3 479 8648
Fax 64 3 479 8174
Email nwinchester@business.otago.ac.nz

Current Teaching

• ECON 271
• ECON 302

Niven Winchester's CV

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Work in Progress

"Is there a dirty little secret? NTBs and additional gains from trade," University of Otago Economics Discussion Paper 0801, 2008.

"An innovative approach to NFL standings using optimal bonus points" (with R. Stefani).

"Miles and more: A quantitative assessment of the food miles movement" (with J. Ballingall).*

"Dairy disaggregation and joint production in computable general equilibrium" (with A. Charteris).*

"Trade Policy & Climate Change: Using Trade Measures to Address Competitiveness Concerns" (with T. Epps).*

* denotes available by request.

Recent Publications

2008:
"Shifting the 'goal posts': Optimizing the allocation of competition points for sporting contests" Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, forthcoming.

"More (or less) on necessarily welfare-enhancing free trade areas" (with M. Richardson), In N Van Long, M. Tawada and B. Tran-Nam (eds.) Globalization and Emerging Issues in Trade Theory and Policy, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Volume 5, Emerald, forthcoming.

"Trade and rising wage inequality: What can we learn from a decade of computable general equilibrium analysis?" In D. Greenaway, R. Upward and P. Wright (eds), Globalisation and Labour and Market Adjustment, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 54-72.

"Searching for the smoking gun: Did trade hurt unskilled workers?" The Economic Record, 84, 141-156.

2007:
"Capital-skill complementarity and rising wage inequality" (with D. Greenaway), Journal of Policy Modeling, 29, 41-54.

2006:
"A classroom tariff setting game," Journal of Economic Education, 37(4), 431-441. (Download a spreadsheet for calculating utility and terms of trade in Excel format and other downloads to assist classrom instruction.)

"Skill classification and the effect of trade on wage inequality" (with D. Greenaway and G.V. Reed), Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 142(2), 287-306.

"Liberating Middle Earth: How will changes in the global trading system affect New Zealand?" New Zealand Economic Papers, 40(1), 45-79.

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