Browsing by Supervisor "Oxley, Les"
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Institutions and uncertainty: An empirical investigation
(The University of Waikato, 2022)This thesis presents four papers on the role institutions (defined as Douglass North defined institutions) play in generating uncertainty. Specifically, we focus on how uncertainty changes as institutions change. The thesis ... -
Household net wealth in Indonesia: Inequality measurements and the determinants
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis is a collection of seven chapters on household net wealth in Indonesia, focusing on the measurement of inequality and the determinants of household net wealth. Chapter 1 provides an Introduction and Motivation ... -
Women as industrial labour: an enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh
(The University of Waikato, 2002)Over the last quarter century, the readymade garments industry has emerged as the main export-earning manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. The industry is the first to employ women in large numbers in the formal manufacturing ... -
Sustaining intergenerational well-being
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This PhD thesis comprises two published papers and four working papers (which are already in the process of publication) on multi-dimensional, interrelated and complex subjects of sustainability and well-being. The thesis ... -
Inequality within and between New Zealand urban areas
(The University of Waikato, 2019)A better understanding of the drivers of changes in the distribution of personal income continues to be of interest to academics, policy makers and the general public. While the focus has often been on the role of economic ... -
Dynamics of land use and land cover changes in China
(The University of Waikato, 2018)A key contribution of environmental economics to policy making has been to provide empirical indicators of sustainable economic development. An economy is (weakly) sustainable if it saves more than the combined depreciation ... -
Testing for bubbles in time series data using long historical series
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The concept of asset price bubble has drawn a large amount of academic attention. A bubble is commonly defined as where the asset price is not justified by expectations of the fundamentals. The empirical characteristics ... -
Patenting in nineteenth century New Zealand: An economic and historical analysis
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis has studied the relationship between patenting and economic development in nineteenth century New Zealand, and the extent to which different population groups patented. These topics are studied using all patents ... -
Innovation and Growth: Theoretical Models and Analytical Simulations of Spatial, Clustering and Competition Effects
(University of Waikato, 2014)This thesis expands upon endogenous growth theory to incorporate a more detailed understanding of innovation. The similarities in modelling techniques between endogenous growth theory and the New Economic Geography (NEG) ...
