New Zealand Economic Papers articles from December 1999

New Zealand Economic Papers archives from December 1999

Growing Apart? Australia and New Zealand Growth Experiences, 1870-1993.
December 1, 1999... 1. Introduction: In a series of papers using the time series-based tests of Bernard and Durlauf (1996), and their own modifications incorporating structural breaks, Greasley and Oxley investigate the existence of Convergence Clubs, see...

New Zealand Household Consumption Patterns 1983-1992: An Application of the Almost-Ideal-Demand-System.
December 1, 1999... 1. Introduction Econometric studies of household expenditure enjoy considerable importance because of the usefulness of the estimated demand parameters in several policy issues. These range from the purely behavioural aspects of demand...

The Geographical Pattern of New Zealand's International Trade: An Application of the Gravity Model.
December 1, 1999... 1. Introduction New Zealand was historically heavily dependent on the United Kingdom which accounted for at least 80 per cent of New Zealand's exports and about 50 per cent of its imports in the early 1960s. This geographical pattern of...

A Statistical Test of Single Firm Market Power.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... 1. Introduction There has been a huge number of studies of the profitability-concentration relationship using cross-section data, especially in the United States (US) (for a fairly recent survey, see Schmalensee, 1989). Several of these...

Macroeconomic Variables and Income Inequality in New Zealand: An Exploration Using Conditional Mixture Distributions.
December 1, 1999... 1. Introduction The aim of this paper is to explore an approach for analysing the effects of macroeconomic variables on the personal distribution of income over time. There is a well-established literature on this subject, complementing...

Trade and Factor Market Effects of New Zealand's Reforms -- Revisited.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... The recent paper in this journal on the factor content of trade implications for New Zealand's economic reforms (Deardorff and Lattimore, 1999) contains an error which changes the conclusions in that paper significantly. In that paper the sum...

Public Ownership and the Community.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Public Ownership and the Community, by Peter McKinlay, (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies), 1999. ISBN 0-908935-36-6. Peter McKinlay's text is a welcome contribution to the development of a fuller discourse about governance structures...

Five Years After: The New Zealand Labour Market and the Employment Contracts Act.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Five Years After: The New Zealand Labour Market and the Employment Contract Act, by Tim Maloney, (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies), 1998, i-xiii + 128pp.,ISBN 0-908935-29-3 Perhaps the biggest and most worrying puzzle about New...

Succeeding in the World Economy: New Zealand Outward Direct Investment, Causes, Patterns and Effects.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Succeeding in the World Economy: New Zealand Outward Direct Investment, Causes, Patterns and Effects, by A.E. Bollard and R.D. Cremer (Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press) for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Deloitte Touche...

The Migration of Knowledge Workers: Second Generation Effects of India's Brain Drain.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Migration of Knowledge Workers: Second Generation Effects of India's Brain Drain, by Binod Khadria, (Sage Publications, 1999), 240 pp. ISBN 0-7619-9320-7 Emigration of skilled and educated professionals, the so-called `Brain Drain',...