New Zealand Economic Papers articles from June 1998

New Zealand Economic Papers archives from June 1998

Identifying the poor for efficient targeting: results for Papua New Guinea.
June 1, 1998... Many countries try to protect their poor during structural adjustment. Targeting is needed to prevent benefits leaking to the non-poor but screening for direct transfers may be too costly for developing countries. One solution is indirect...

Estimating the exponential family using grouped data: an application to the New Zealand income distribution.
June 1, 1998... The exponential family of distributions offers considerable scope for the analysis of income distributions because of its ability to `nest' many densities and the possibility of deriving special cases explicitly from labour demand and supply...

What goes up must come down (but not necessarily at the same rate): testing for asymmetry in New Zealand time series.
June 1, 1998... The notion that many macroeconomic variables fluctuate asymmetrically over time is not new to economic theory but it is relatively new to empirical economics. The most common empirical representations of aggregate time series are usually smooth...

Some empirical evidence on the determinants of immigration from Fiji to New Zealand: 1970-94.
June 1, 1998... This paper formulates and tests a model for migration from Fiji to New Zealand within the human capital framework using time-series data from 1970-94. The error-correction model, which appears to adequately characterise the data generation...

Owner-occupied housing costs and the consumer price index.
June 1, 1998... The cost of owner-occupied housing is a difficult and controversial component of the consumer price index. The methods used to measure these costs in New Zealand violate basic principles: the items sampled are not constant-quality and the costs...

Money and Medicines: An Economic Analysis of Reference Pricing and Related Public-sector Cost-containment Systems for pharmaceuticals with Special Reference to New Zealand.
June 1, 1998... Money and Medicines: An Economic Analysis of Reference Pricing and Related Public-sector Cost-containment Systems for Pharmaceuticals with Special Reference to New Zealand, by Alan Woodfield, John Fountain and Pim Borren (Merck Sharp and Dohme...

Tigers in New Zealand: The Role of Asian Investment in the Economy.
June 1, 1998... Tigers in New Zealand: The Role of Asian Investment in the Economy, by Cremer, R.D. and B. Ramasamy (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies), 1996. 115 Pages. ISBN 0-08935-5-3 There has been considerable interest among researchers in recent...

Investing in Minds: The Economics of Higher Education in New Zealand.
June 1, 1998... Investing in Minds.' The Economics of Higher Education in New Zealand, by S. Maani (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies), 1997, ISBN 0-908935-11-0 This is a polished publication of a substantial research project - it represents a...

Corporate Governance: Economic, Management, and Financial Issues.
June 1, 1998... Corporate Governance: Economic, Management, and Financial Issues, edited by Kevin Keasey, Steve Thompson and Mike Wright (Oxford University Press), 1997, XII + 308 pp. ISBN 0-19-828991-x This is a very interesting book and its publication is...