New Zealand Economic Papers articles from December 2004

New Zealand Economic Papers archives from December 2004

Conrad A. Blyth: citation for the award of Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
December 1, 2004... Three themes have been central to Conrad Blyth's career as an economist: business cycles, economic development in small economies exposed to commodity price cycles, and New Zealand's slow post-war economic growth. Interest in these topics was...

Sir Frank Holmes: citation for the award of Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
December 1, 2004... The world in which Sir Frank Holmes grew up was one devastated by economic depression, political extremism and ultimately a war that killed tens of millions. Frank was drawn into that cauldron. Along with many others Frank came away from war...

Quantifying creative destruction: entrepreneurship and productivity in New Zealand.
December 1, 2004... 1. The Microeconomics of Productivity Growth Productivity in New Zealand grew slowly during the 1990s. Low investment was the source of the problem, according to the Treasury (2004), as the capital-labour ratio grew less than in comparable...

Multilateral agricultural trade reform: potential impacts of current negotiations on New Zealand *.(Author abstract)
December 1, 2004... 1. Introduction After intense negotiations, the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) 147 member governments approved on 1 August 2004 a package of framework and other agreements which Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi said will greatly...

Efficiency in the New Zealand rock lobster fishery: a production frontier analysis.
December 1, 2004... 1. Introduction Institutional change is one of the more powerful instruments that government can use to provide the conditions necessary for economic growth. Significant changes to the institutional foundations of New Zealand's fisheries...

Why haven't economic reforms increased productivity growth in New Zealand?(1)
December 1, 2004... Introduction In his Richard Ely lecture at the 2002 annual meetings of the American Economic Association, Edward Prescott noted that New Zealand, unlike most developed countries, had remarkably low productivity growth. He asked why that...

The efficiency test under competition law and regulation in the small distant open economy that is New Zealand.
December 1, 2004... 1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to examine the case for an efficiency test in competition and regulatory policy, particularly in the context of the geographic isolation, small size and openness of the New Zealand economy. The...

What's wrong with New Zealand's public benefit test?
December 1, 2004... "[A] net public benefit analysis considers net total welfare effects. Under this analysis, any deadweight efficiency loss due to allocatively inefficient prices would count as a net public detriment, but any transfer of wealth from consumers to...

Application of the public benefit test to the Air New Zealand/Qantas case.
December 1, 2004... This paper develops material presented at the NZ Association of Economists Annual Conferences in 2003 and 2004, at the Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference in Toronto, June 2004, at the 14th Annual Workshop of the Competition Law...

"Globalization in Historical Perspective".
December 1, 2004... "Globalization in Historical Perspective", a National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, edited by M.D. Bordo, A.M. Taylor and J.G. Williamson. (The University of Chicago Press, 2003) The public, which has firm, uninformed, and...