2015 Conference Papers
| Abbreviations: (NZEPP): New Zealand Economic Policy Prize Entry (SNZ): Statistics New Zealand Prize Entry (JW-D): Jan Whitwell Prize Entry (Doctoral) (JW-BM): Jan Whitwell Prize Entry (Bachelors or Masters) (ab): Abstract only available as attachment |
Wednesday 1st July
Thursday 2nd July
| Time | Session Title | Paper Title | Presenter | Co-Author |
| 9:00 – 10:30am | Keynote: Chris Edmond, Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. Chair: John McDermott (RBNZ) | “Competition, Markups, and Misallocation” | ||
| 10:30 – 11:30am | MORNING TEA | |||
| 11:00 – 12:30pm
| 4.1) Treasury Chair: Diana Cook | (ab)Holding on and Letting Go: Opportunities and Challenges for NZ’s Economic Performance: A Perspective from the Treasury | Girol Karacaoglu | |
| The Impact of Tertiary Study on the Labour Market Outcomes of Low-qualified School Leavers | Sarah Crichton (SNZ) | Sarah Tumen Sylvia Dixon | ||
| Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Margins of Exports | Lynda Sanderson (SNZ) | Richard Fabling | ||
| 4.2) Employment Dynamics (Using the LBD) Chair: Patrick Nolan | (ab)Who Creates Jobs in New Zealand? Firm and Employment Dynamics | Lydia Cheung | Geoffrey Brooke | |
| Firm Dynamics and Job Creation in New Zealand: A Perpetual Motion machine | Lisa Meehan | Guanyu Zheng | ||
| “Do New Zealand firms catch up to the domestic productivity frontier?” | Guanyu Zheng (NZEPP) | Paul Conway Lisa Meehan | ||
| 4.3) Education Chair: Mary Hedges | (ab)What’s Been Happening to Fees at Non-Government Schools | Jenny Lye | Joe Hirschberg | |
| Un(ac)countable: Why Millions on Maths Returned Little | Rose Patterson | |||
| Analysis of Upper Secondary School Dropout in Central Java Province, Indonesia: Preliminary Results and Insights | Andryan Setyadharma (JW-D) | Hatice Ozer-Balli Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht | ||
| 4.4) Prices & Wealth Chair: David Law | Comprehensive Wealth or Inclusive Wealth? Preliminary Results from a Comparison of Alternative Wealth Estimates | Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht | ||
| Food, Housing and Energy: Evolution of Consumer Prices for the Bare Necessities | Miles Parker (JW-D) | |||
| 4.5) Economic History Chair: Sean Kimpton | 50 years of New Zealand Economic Papers: 1966 to 2015 | Bob Buckle | John Creedy | |
| (ab)British Migration to New Zealand, 1840-1914 | Geoffrey Brooke | |||
| Government Expenditure in New Zealand Since 1935: A Preliminary Analysis | Matthew Gibbons (JW-BM) | |||
| 4.6) Fiscal Policy & Government Size Chair: Eric Crampton | The (mis) allocation of public spending in a low income country: Evidence from disaster risk reduction spending in Bangladesh | Azreen Karim (JW-D) | ||
| (ab)Modelling Fiscal Sustainability with feedback effects | John Creedy | Grant Sobie | ||
| (ab)Determinants of Chinese Government Size: An Extreme Bounds Analysis | Philip Gunby | Yinghua Jin | ||
| 12:30 – 1:15pm | LUNCH | |||
| 1:15 – 2:00pm | NZAE AGM | |||
| 2:00 – 3:30pm
| 5.1) Economic Growth Chair: Dieter Katz | How Does Political Instability Influence the Effect of Tourism Demand on Economic Growth? | Shrabani Saha (NZEPP) | |
| Taxes and Economic Growth in the U.S. States: A Meta-Regression Analysis | Nazila Alinaghi (JW-D) | |||
| Business Cycle Accounting | Thakshila Gunaratna (JW-BM) | Robert Kirkby | ||
| 5.2) Well-Being Chair: Laura Meriluoto | Easterlin Dilemma or Prisoner’s Paradox? Impacts of Intra-national and Inter-national Income Comparisons on Rural versus Urban Wellbeing | Arthur Grimes | Marc Reinhardt | |
| (ab)Working on Wall Street or Relaxing on the Riviera? Age-Related Impacts of Income and Wellbeing on Regional Migration | Judd Ormsby | Arthur Grimes | ||
| (ab)Are ‘Distortionary’ Fiscal Policies Fiscal Folly or Wellbeing Wisdom? Personal and Regional Impacts of Fiscal Policies on Wellbeing and Economic Growth | Anna Robinson | Arthur Grimes, Siu Yuat Wong | ||
| 5.3) Labour #2 Chair: Bill Cochrane | Simulating the Effects on Labour Supply in New Zealand of Tax-transfer Changes in 210 | Penny Mok (NZEPP) | John Creedy | |
| (ab)Online Job Vacancy Listings Indicated by Business Outlook Indices and Indicating Employment Changes | Anne Fale | Xintao Zhao Ram SriRamarat Amapola Generosa | ||
| Evaluating the Composition of Employment Changes in Industries and Occupations Across the Regions: Insights from a Shift-share Analysis | Amapola Generosa | Ram SriRamarat | ||
| 5.4) Pot Luck #2 Chair: Geoffrey Brooke | Poverty and natural disasters: A meta regression analysis | Azreen Karim (JW-D) | ||
| The Nature and Causes of Profits: The Classical Approach from Smith to Marx | Sean Kimpton | |||
| (ab)Is the Health Care Sector Infected by Baumol’s Cost Disease? Test of a New Model using an OECD Dataset | Akinwande Atanda (JW-D) | |||
| 5.5) Income and Inequality Chair: Ken Jackson | A Practical Approach to Well-being Based Policy Development: What do New Zealanders want from their Retirement Income Policies? | Joey Au (NZEPP) | Trudy Sullivan Andrew Coleman | |
| (ab)Income Mobility and Income Inequality in New Zealand: Trends, Patterns and Relationships | Athene Laws (JW-BM) | Norman Gemmell | ||
| Inequality in New Zealand 1983/84 to 2013/14 | Christopher Ball (NZEPP) | John Creedy | ||
| 3:30 – 4:00pm | AFTERNOON TEA | |||
| 4:00 – 5:30pm | Keynote: Dorian Owen, University of Otago Chair: Stephen Knowles (Otago Uni) | “Competitive Balance and Uncertainty of Outcome in the Economics of Professional Sports Leagues.” | ||
| 6:30 – 7:30pm | PRE CONFERNCE DINNER DRINKS | |||
| 7pm Onwards | CONFERENCE DINNER | |||
Friday 3rd July
| Time | Session Title | Paper Title | Presenter | Co-Author |
| 9:00 – 10:30am | Keynote: Arthur Robson, Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution Chair: Jack Robles (Victoria University of Wellington) | “The Biological Basis of Economics” | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00am | MORNING TEA | |||
| 11:00 – 12:30pm | 6.1) Attention Postgrads & Early Career Researchers: Tips on Presenting and Publishing Chair: Stephen Knowles & John Creedy | Stephen Knowles & John Creedy | ||
| 6.2) Urban Economics Chair: Kirdan Lees | (ab)Are We Limiting Regional Development by Imposing Planning Permissions? | Chris Parker | Eilya Torshizian | |
| (ab)The Need for Developing a Policy on a Social Discount Rate for Auckland Council | Chris Parker | Eilya Torshizian | ||
| The Value of Land, Floor Space, and Amenities: A Hedonic Price Analysis of Auckland Property Sales | Peter Nunns | |||
| 6.3) Firm Performance Chair: Eyal Apatov | (ab)Self-reported Technology Change and Firm Performance | Talosaga Talosaga | Lynda Sanderson | |
| Tip of the Iceberg? Organisational Foundations of Top Pay in New Zealand Listed Companies, 1995-2014 | Tim Hazledine (NZEPP) | |||
| 6.4) Crown Balance Sheet Chair: Emily Irwin | Projecting the Crown Accounts – the Treasury’s new Fiscal Models | Matthew Bell (NZEPP) | ||
| Estimating the Cyclically- and Absorption-Adjusted Balance for New Zealand | Miles Workman | |||
| Placing Nations’ Sectoral Surpluses and Deficits into their Global Context | Keith Rankin | |||
| 6.5) Statistics Chair: Gary Dunnet | Making what Matters Count | Scott Ussher | ||
| (ab)Watching our Weights: Keeping GDP Relevant | Matthew Collison | |||
| Implementation of Consumer Electronics Scanner Data in the New Zealand CPI | Frances Krsinich | |||
| 12:30 – 1:30pm | LUNCH | |||
| 1:30pm | CONFERENCE CLOSE | |||
