Browsing by Author "Holmes, Mark J."

• Agglomeration externalities and 1981-2006 regional growth in Brazil 

  Matlaba, Valente José; Holmes, Mark J.; McCann, Philip; Poot, Jacques (University of Waikato, 2012-06)

  This paper focuses on manufacturing employment growth across the 26 states of Brazil. We employ the Glaeser et al. (1992) approach to identify the role played by knowledge externalities in growth and convergence. To assess ...

  

• Architects as nowcasters of housing construction 

  Holmes, Mark J.; Mitchell, James; Silverstone, Brian (Sage Publications, 2009)

  For more than four decades, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has conducted a two-question, quarterly survey of architect forecasts of public and private sector construction expenditure. This qualitative ...

• Are Asia-Pacific real exchange rates stationary? A regime-switching perspective 

  Holmes, Mark J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

  This paper tests for long-run purchasing power (PPP) among nine Asia-Pacific countries. Non-stationarity of the real exchange rate is tested within a Markov regime-switching framework. Two new concepts of PPP are defined ...

• Are EU budget deficits stationary? 

  Holmes, Mark J.; Otero, Jesús; Panagiotidis, Theodore (Physica Verlag, 2010)

  In this paper, we test for the stationarity of European Union budget deficits over the period 1971–2006, using a panel of thirteen member countries. Our testing strategy addresses two key concerns with regard to unit root ...

• Are international real interest rate linkages characterized by asymmetric adjustments? 

  Holmes, Mark J.; Maghrebi, Nabil (Elsevier B.V., 2006)

  This study tests for asymmetries in the adjustment mechanism towards real interest parity using monthly data over the period 1973–2004 for the U.S. and a sample of other OECD economies. There is stronger evidence of long-run ...

• Essays on income distribution: Special reference to pay inequality, labour share and income inequality 

  Taherifar, Roya (The University of Waikato, 2023)

  This thesis comprises three essays on important areas of income distribution: pay inequality, labour share, and income inequality. The primary objective of this research is to enhance our understanding of the factors ...

  

• Impact of migration costs, microcredit, and remittances on cross-border labour migration decisions: Evidence from a Cambodian household survey 

  Oum, Chan Mono (The University of Waikato, 2023)

  Over the past two decades, the migration of Cambodian workers has contributed to poverty reduction and economic development. However, it has also constituted a substantial challenge, in view of the significant increase in ...

  

• Institutions and uncertainty: An empirical investigation 

  Ryan, Michael (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 ...

  

• Exogenous events, economic stimulus and its future trajectory 

  Merrill, Natalie (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  The present worldwide COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that our society is continuously faced with exogenous events. Looking at the past shows policy makers use monetary and fiscal policy to respond to these events; however, ...

  

• The effects of foreign direct investment on domestic firms: The case of Vietnam 

  Ha, Van Thi Cam (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  Thanks to the economic reform after the launch of “Doi moi” in 1986, Vietnam has made significant gains and has transformed from an economically poor country in the 1980-90s towards a middle-income country by the 2010s. A ...

  

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