Browsing by Series "Department of Economics Working Paper Series"
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Agglomeration externalities and 1981-2006 regional growth in Brazil
(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 ... -
Agglomeration externalities, innovation and regional growth: Theoretical perspectives and meta-analysis
(2008-02)Technological change and innovation and are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to ... -
An analysis of provincial prices in New Zealand: 1885-1913
(University of Waikato, 2013-10)The paper discusses the construction of a new Consumer Price Index (CPI) for New Zealand, 1885-1913, based upon aggregation of data from the four largest provincial districts: Auckland, Canterbury, Otago and Wellington. ... -
ASEAN-New Zealand trade relations and trade potential
(The University of Waikato, Waikato Management School, 2010-04)This paper explores trade development by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) with a particular reference to New Zealand and in the context of free trade agreements and partnerships. It describes the history ... -
An assessment of the benefits of cleaner streams: A New Zealand case study
(Waikato Management School, 2010-10)Water pollution is now considered to be one of the most important environmental issues facing New Zealand. Water quality in rivers, lakes and streams is generally falling alongside the increase in farming intensity, ... -
Asymmetric adjustment of unemployment and output in New Zealand: Rediscovering Okun’s law
(Department of Economics, University of Waikato, 2000-05)Okun's law - the relationship between unemployment and output - is one of the best known empirical regularities in macroeconomics. It is an important relationship because the way in which unemployment reacts to changes in ... -
Attributing returns and optimising United States swaps portfolios using an intertemporally-consistent and arbitrage-free model of the yield curve
(2005-03)This paper uses the volatility-adjusted orthonormalised Laguerre polynomial model of the yield curve (the VAO model) from Krippner (2005), an intertemporally-consistent and arbitrage-free version of the popular Nelson and ... -
Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme (PSWPS): Development impacts in the first two years
(University of Waikato, 2011-06)Australia launched the Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme in August 2008. This program was designed to alleviate labor shortages for the Australian horticultural industry by providing opportunities for workers from ... -
Beyond ‘the Beamer, the boat and the bach’? A content analysis-based case study of New Zealand innovative firms
(University of Waikato, 2013-10)In this paper we will use case studies to seek to understand the dynamic innovation processes at the level of the firm and to explain the apparent 'enigma' between New Zealand's recent innovation performance and economic ... -
Bibliography of research using the NZIER’s quarterly survey of business opinion
(University of Waikato, 2011-06)The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has conducted and published a quarterly survey of business opinion continuously, and with largely unchanged questions, since June 1961. The Institute’s Quarterly Survey ... -
Biography of an ERP: Tracing the fabrication of a virtual object
(Waikato Management School, 2007-05)This paper provides an account of the way Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems change over time. These changes are conceptualised as a biographical accumulation that gives the specific ERP technology its present ... -
Biotechnology in New Zealand: Description and analysis based on the 1998/99 and 2002 biotech surveys and a review of secondary sources
(Dept. of Economics Working Paper Series, 2004-09)This paper provides a detailed description of the New Zealand biotechnology sector based on a re-analysis of the first comprehensive (1998/99) survey of biotechnology in New Zealand, data from an original (2002) survey ... -
Business confidence and cyclical turning points: A Markov-Switching approach
(2007-09)Markov regime-switching analysis is used to consider the relationship between business confidence and the probability of turning points in cyclical GDP. We find, in an application to New Zealand, that confidence is related ... -
The business of social responsibility: Evidence from the garment industry in Northeast Thailand
(2007-12)Many business managers demonstrate a reluctance to engage fully with corporate social responsibility (CSR). They often perceive CSR as a cost and their CSR activities tend to be piecemeal and defensive. Such suboptimal ... -
Can we trust cluster-corrected standard errors? An application of spatial autocorrelation with exact locations known
(Waikato Management School, 2010-11)Standard error corrections for clustered samples impose untested restrictions on spatial correlations. Our example shows these are too conservative, compared with a spatial error model that exploits information on exact ... -
A century of the evolution of the urban system in Brazil
(2011-06)In this paper, we study the hitherto unexplored evolution of the size distribution of 185 urban areas in Brazil between 1907 and 2008. We find that the power law parameter of the size distribution of the 100 largest urban ... -
Classic and spatial shift-share analysis of state-level employment change in Brazil
(University of Waikato, 2012-07)This paper combines classic and spatial shift-share decompositions of 1981 to 2006 employment change across the 27 states of Brazil. The classic shift-share method shows higher employment growth rates for underdeveloped ... -
Commercial bank load loss recoveries
(2009-11)We present a new approach to analyse historical recovery rates on distressed bank assets. Our approach uses banks’ reported impaired assets and the corresponding specific provisions. The dynamics and drivers of this credit ... -
Comparing vegetative effects of domestic stock and feral goats as ungulate herbivores in Waingaro: Year 1 results
(Department of Economics, University of Waikato, 2006-10)Fencing remnant native vegetation has become a widespread activity throughout New Zealand to increase native biodiversity. However, there have not been many studies to show if this is an effective approach when feral goats ... -
The connection between biodiversity and well-being: A New Zealand case study
(2009-02)The link between human well-being and biodiversity has not been well studied and was therefore the goal of this research project. Focus was placed on an increase in New Zealand native biodiversity, by an increase in the ...
