New Zealand Economic Papers articles from June 2000

New Zealand Economic Papers archives from June 2000

Technical and Scale Efficiency of Vocational Education and Training Institutions: The Case of the New Zealand Polytechnics.
June 1, 2000... During the 1980s and 1990s there has been a great deal of concern expressed amongst policy makers about the relatively slow growth rate of the New Zealand economy. In response to these concerns the New Zealand Government embarked upon an...

Unfashionable Economics Selected Contributions of Amartya K. Sen: 1998 Economics Nobel Laureate.
June 1, 2000... 1. Introduction In October 1998, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to Professor Amartya Kumar Sen in recognition of his "several key contributions to the research on fundamental problems in...

Unemployment and Crime: New Evidence for an Old Question.
June 1, 2000... "I know only of three ways of living in society: one must be a beggar, a thief, or a wage earner." HONORE de MIRABEAU (1749-1791) 1. Introduction It is a common observation for many countries that unemployment rates and crime...

Research Productivity in New Zealand University Economics Departments: Comment and Update.
June 1, 2000... 1. Introduction Ranking economics departments has been a long-standing, and occasionally controversial, concern of academics.(1) The most common measurement criterion for these rankings is the weighted number of pages published in a set of...

A Simple Graphical Proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
June 1, 2000... This paper uses a two-dimensional graphical technique to provide a constructive proof of Arrow's impossibility theorem. Students (and instructors) of intermediate microeconomics should have no problem in following the graphical proof developed...

Nature's Wages: A Factor-based Alternative Approach to Environment-Economy Integration.
June 1, 2000... 1. Introduction The advent of the Brundtland Commission (1987) and the popularization of the concept of "Sustainable Development" has led to a heightened interest in economics and environment. The better integration of economy and the...

Crowding out and resulting trends in research fund allocation in New Zealand, 1991-2000.
June 1, 2000... 1. Introduction The administrative reforms of research organisations in New Zealand in the last fifteen years have been propelled by fiscal conservatism on the part of the governments of the time and a perception that publicly provided...

An ANZAC Dollar? Currency Union and Business Development.(Review)
June 1, 2000... An ANZAC Dollar? Currency Union and Business Development, by Arthur Grimes and Frank Holmes with Roger Bowden, (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies), 2000. 133pp. ISBN 0-908935-47-1. The growing interest in a monetary union involving...

Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth.
June 1, 2000... Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth by Frank Barry (editor). MacMillan Press, London and St Martin's Press, New York, (1999), i-xii + 242pp, ISBN 0-333-73362-2 The Luck of the Irish? Being the right place at the right time? Or a...

New Zealand Association of Economists Education Trust Research Award.
June 1, 2000... The New Zealand Association of Economists' Education Trust has established an award (or awards) to a total value of $2000 to assist research projects by members of the New Zealand Association of Economists. The Trustees will consider research...

New Zealand Association of Economists Young Economists' Prize.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Young Economists' Prize is awarded annually for the best paper submitted to the Editor of New Zealand Economic Papers by an author who is under 30 years of age or who has graduated within two years of the submission date. The New Zealand...