Browsing by Series "Department of Economics Working Paper Series"
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The excellence in research for Australia Scheme: An evaluation of the draft journal weights for economics
(Waikato Management School, 2009-07)In February 2008, the Australian government announced its intention to develop a new quality and evaluation system for research conducted at the nation’s universities. Although the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) ... -
Experimental designs for environmental valuation with choice-experiments: A Monte Carlo investigation
(Department of Economics, University of Waikato, 2005-12)We review the practice of experimental design in the environmental economics literature concerned with choice experiments. We then contrast this with advances in the field of experimental design and present a comparison ... -
Exuberance in British share prices during the railway mania of the 1840s: Evidence from the Phillips, Shi and Yu Test
(Waikato Management School, the University of Waikato, 2017-04)In this study, we empirically investigate evidence of explosive behaviour in the British share prices of canals, railways and waterworks in the nineteenth century using the right-tailed unit root test of Phillips, Shi and ... -
Exuberance in historical stock prices during the Mississippi and South Seas bubble episodes
(Waikato Management School, the University of Waikato, 2017)The Mississippi Bubble and the South Sea Bubble are the two most famous and earliest episodes in the history of speculation, which can be dated back to the eighteenth century. Unlike most studies focus on some recent ... -
Firm exporting and employee benefits: first evidence from Vietnam manufacturing SMEs
(University of Waikato, 2012-10)This study examines linkages between the export participation of firms and employee benefits in terms of wages and employment quality. Based on a uniquely matched firmworker panel dataset for 2007 and 2009, we find evidence ... -
Fostering innovation in a small open economy: The case of the New Zealand biotechnology sector
(2000-05)The New Zealand Biotechnology sector is worthy of study for several reasons. While there is a large and growing international literature on economic aspects of biotechnology innovation these studies concentrate on the ... -
Gross labour market flows in New Zealand: Some questions and answers
(University of Waikato, 2011-12)Data on the flow of workers moving between employment, unemployment and non-participation provide some of the most interesting and useful insights into labour market outcomes. These insights include information on the ... -
Harnessing the private sector for rural development, poverty alleviation and HIV/AIDS prevention
(Waikato Management School, 2007-01)In resource-constrained developing countries, mobilizing resources from outside sources may assist in overcoming many development challenges. This paper examines the Thai Business Initiative in Rural Development (TBIRD), ... -
Help wanted in New Zealand: The ANZ Bank job advertisement series
(Victoria University of Wellington, 2004-11)The ANZ Bank publishes a monthly count of the number of job advertisements appearing in New Zealand newspapers and, more recently, internet sites. It is New Zealand’s de facto vacancy or help-wanted series. Apart from its ... -
Heterogeneous credit impacts of healthcare spending of the poor in peri-urban areas, Vietnam: Quantile treatment effects estimation
(Waikato Management School, 2011-02)Quantile Treatment Effects are estimated to study the impacts of household credit access on health spending by poor households in one District of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. There are significant positive effects of credit ... -
HIV/AIDS in Rural Northeast Thailand: Narratives of the impacts of HIV/AIDS on individuals and households
(Department of Economics, University of Waikato, 2007-04)HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest public health and development challenges currently faced by the global community. Amongst reported statistics, such as the estimated 39.5 million people infected with HIV at the end of 2006, ... -
Household credit to the poor and its impact on child schooling in peri-urban areas, Vietnam
(University of Waikato, 2011-06)This paper uses a novelty dataset of poor households in peri-urban areas in Vietnam to estimate impacts of small loans on child schooling. The Probit and Negative Binomial model estimates roughly indicate no strong evidence ... -
Household energy demand and the equity and efficiency aspects of subsidy reform in Indonesia
(2006-08)The proper design of price interventions in energy markets requires consideration of equity and efficiency effects. In this paper, budget survey data from 29,000 Indonesian households are used to estimate a demand system ... -
How cost elastic are remittances? Estimates from Tongan migrants in New Zealand
(2006-03)Pacific Island economies are some of the most remittance- dependent in the world. Proposals to lower the costs of sending money across borders are a core recommendation of recent international studies that aim to enhance ... -
How important is selection? Experimental vs non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration
(2006-03)Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant ... -
How much new saving will kiwisaver produce?
(Waikato Management School, 2008-03)After two decades of tax neutrality for private saving, New Zealand policy changed radically with the recent introduction of tax incentives for KiwiSaver. A key issue for tax-favoured saving schemes is the extent to which ... -
How pro-poor is the selection of seasonal migrant workers from Tonga under New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Program?
(2008-06)Temporary migration programs for unskilled workers are increasingly being proposed as a way to both relieve labour shortages in developed countries and aid development in sending countries without entailing many of the ... -
How reliable are household expenditures as a proxy for permanent income? Implications for the income-nutrition relationship
(University of Waikato, 2011-03)Measurement error in short-run expenditures from household surveys may attenuate estimated effects of permanent income on economic outcomes. Repeated observations on households during the year are used to calculate reliability ... -
How widespread are non-linear crowding out effects? The response of private transfers to income in four developing countries
(2006-03)This paper investigates whether there is a non-linear relationship between income and the private transfers received by households in developing countries. If private transfers are unresponsive to household income, expansion ... -
An illustration of the average exit time measure of poverty
(Department of Economics, 2002-09)The goal of the World Bank is 'a world free of poverty' but the most widely used poverty measures do not show when poverty might be eliminated. The 'head-count index' simply counts the poor, while the 'poverty gap index' ...
