2018 Conference papers
Copy of final programme
Keynotes:
- ROBERT KING, AWH Phillips Memorial Lecture
- RALPH BAYER, The Double Dividend Of Relative Auditing – Theory And Experiments On Corporate Tax Enforcement
- FLAVIO MENEZES, Live Issues In Market Design
- JULIA LANE, Making Data Great Again (John McMillan Memorial Lecture)
Programme listed below, with links to papers where available.
| Session | Paper title | Presenter | Co-author | Link to paper |
| 1.1 | The impact of upzoning and proximity on Auckland house prices | Shane Martin | ||
| 1.1 | Funding greenfield infrastructure in a fast-growing city | Harshal Chitale | ||
| 1.1 | Changing course: From general taxes to beneficiary pays | David Norman | ||
| 1.2 | Measuring state sector productivity | Patrick Nolan | ||
| 1.2 | Measuring the diffusion of innovation among hospitals in New Zealand | Patrick Nolan | Huon Fraser & Norman Gemmell | |
| 1.2 | Recent evidence on New Zealand’s productivity performance | Patrick Nolan | ||
| 1.2 | Regressivity in our public disaster insurance system | Sally Owen | Ilan Noy | paper |
| 1.3 | Insurance demand with endogenous saving | Ben Davies | ||
| 1.3 | Welfare: Savings not taxation | Robert Macculloch | Sir Roger Douglas | paper |
| 1.3 | Effect of 20 hours early childhood education on womenís labor market outcomes in New Zealand | Lydia Cheung | Gail Pacheco & Isabelle Bouchard | paper |
| 1.4 | Returns to initial years of formal education: How birthdate affects later educational outcomes | Asaad Ali | Andrea Menclova | |
| 1.4 | Estimating quality-adjusted productivity in tertiary education: Methods and evidence for New Zealand | Grant Scobie | Norman Gemmell & Patrick Nolan | |
| 1.5 | NAIRU and the Natural Rate of Unemployment in Theory and Estimation:The Case of New Zealand | Karam Shaar | ||
| 1.5 | Modelling annual earnings with unemployment: Non-random selection in female workers | Oliver Robertson | paper | |
| 1.5 | Employment trends in 30 New Zealand cities from 1976 to 2013 | Guanyu Zheng | ||
| 1.6 | How can human rights data contribute to economic development? | Anne-Marie Brook | K Chad Clay & Susan Randolph | |
| 1.6 | A Model of the Interaction of Health and Healthcare for the Wellbeing of Heterogeneous Individuals | Anita King | paper | |
| 1.6 | A preference-based approach to enhance living standards measures such as the human development index | Andrew Coleman | Joey Au | |
| 2.1 | Forecasting with Global VAR Models: An Empirical Assessment | Thomas van Florenstein Mulder | Tugrul Vehbi | |
| 2.1 | Job-to-job flows and inflation in New Zealand: | A forecasting exercise | Ozer Karagedikli | |
| 2.1 | Forecasting New Zealand labor markets with MiDAS | Murat Ozbilgin | Ozer Karagedikli | |
| 2.2 | Rentals for housing: A model-based estimator of inflation from administrative data | Alan Bentley | paper | |
| 2.2 | Creating a digital food price index from | web-scraped data | Sam Olivecrona | |
| 2.2 | Persistence of low pay employment | Alexander Plum | Gail Pacheco | paper |
| 2.3 | Under-utilisation of skills and qualifications in New Zealand: What is its impact on wages of employees | Amapola Generosa | Dona Cavagnoli | |
| 2.3 | Labour market impacts of technology change: evidence from linked employer-employee data | Corey Allan | Lynda Sanderson | |
| 2.3 | Competing trade mechanisms and monotone mechanism choice | Ansgar Wohlschlegel | Christian Grund, Eberhard Feess & Markus Walzl | paper |
| 2.4 | Explaining the greater NEET rate of Maori and Pasifika youth: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition | Eyal Apatov | ||
| 2.4 | A global analysis of factors impacting the intensive and extensive margins of bilateral FDI | Anh Thi Ngoc Nguyen | paper | |
| 2.4 | Does bank competition affect financial stability? | Samangi Bandaranayake | paper | |
| 2.5 | Capital inflows and credit growth in emerging and developing economies: A dynamic panel data model | Kongchheng Poch | Baiding Hu & Christopher Gan | paper |
| 2.5 | Global Spillover of US Monetary Policy | Eric Tong | Prasanna Gai | |
| 2.5 | An investigation of the resource curse in Indonesia | Rian Hilmawan | Jeremy Clark | paper |
| 2.6 | Willingness to pay for organic vegetables in Vietnam: A rural-urban comparison | Mai Ha | Kim Hang Pham Do & Shamim Shakur | paper |
| 2.6 | Financial stress and indigenous Australians | Syed Hasan | Boyd Hunter & Robert Breunig | paper |
| 3.1 | Migration and business cycle dynamics | Christie Smith | paper | |
| 3.1 | Everyone has a part to play: Examining participation rates in New Zealand and the OECD | Jamie Culling | Amy Rice, Dean Hyslop & Hayden Skilling | |
| 3.1 | An intensive and extensive search for the causes of low wage growth in New Zealand | Amy Rice | Dean Hyslop, Hayden Skilling & Jamie Culling | |
| 3.2 | The impact of social workers in schools: A preliminary investigation using linked administrative data | Tim Maloney | Anita Staneva, Moira Wilson, Nan Jiang & Rhema Vaithianathan | |
| 3.2 | A case study of algorithm-assisted decision making in child maltreatment hotline screening decisions | Diana Benavides-Prado | Alexandra Chouldechova, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Oleksandr Fialko & Rhema Vaithianathan | |
| 3.2 | Identifying people at risk of homelessness: predictive risk modelling to support access to preventive services | Matthew Walsh | Oleksandr Fialko & Rhema Vaithianathan | |
| 3.3 | Quantifying the effects of fiscal policy in New Zealand: The evidence from svar models | Anna Hamer-Adams | Martin Wong | paper |
| 3.3 | An introduction to the treasuryís new macroeconomic model | Ashley Lienert | paper | |
| 3.3 | Gender economics and gender equality in an economic Ministry: A Case Study using The Treasury | Tim Ng | Suzy Morrissey | paper |
| 3.3 | Land use choices in Aotearoa New Zealand: Do Maori land governance structures make a difference? | Sandra Cortes-Acostat | Carwyn Jones, Dave Frame & Suzi Kerr | |
| 3.4 | The determinants of housing supply responsiveness in New Zealand regions | Peter Nunns | paper | |
| 3.4 | A matching simulation to assess additional housing capacity in Auckland | Mario Fernandez | paper | |
| 3.4 | Dynamic interaction between economic indicators, technology and CO2 emissions in New Zealand | Sina Mashinchi | Basil Sharp & Stephen Poletti | paper |
| 3.5 | The impact of industrial energy savings on New Zealand economy (an intertemporal dynamic CGE model) | Milad Maralani | Basil Sharp | paper |
| 3.5 | An industrial policy for Aotearoa New Zealand? A review of theory, practice, and prospects | Toby Moore | Max Harris | |
| 3.5 | Gender differences in personnel management: Some experimental evidence | Yaxiong (Sherry) Li | Erwann Sbai & Ananish Chaudhuri | |
| 3.6 | Testing for mean differences in education spending | Mark Millin | paper | |
| 3.6 | The evolution of management practices in New Zealand | Lynda Sanderson | ||
| 4.1 | The treasury approach to the living standard framework | Tony Burton | ||
| 4.1 | The Treasury Living Standards Dashboard: How close are we to measuring intergenerational wellbeing in New Zealand? | Conal Smith | ||
| 4.1 | Indicators of wellbeing for New Zealand | Nairn Macgibbon | Gulnara Huseynli, Anita King & Keith Mcleod | |
| 4.2 | The nzme-Fairfax merger: Assessing the impact of competition on the quality of NZ news | Reuben Irvine | ||
| 4.2 | Market definition: Office stationery – the supply of products or the provision of a service? | Joshua Dawson | ||
| 4.2 | Introduction to the performance accessibility tool for electricity distributors | Matthew Bailey & Michael Wallace | ||
| 4.2 | Youíll never walk alone ñ the effects of walkability on pregnancy behaviours and outcomes | Andrea Menclova | Karen Conway | |
| 4.3 | Parenthood and labour market outcomes | Isabelle Sin | Gail Pacheco & Kabir Dasgupta | paper |
| 4.3 | The impact of maternal smoking during pregnancy on risks of obesity among pre-schoolers | Kabir Dasgupta | Keshar Ghimire & Gail Pacheco | |
| 4.3 | Technology related transport skill requirements and availability | Julian Williams | Douglas Wilson, Bevan Clement, Prakash Ranjitkar, Sujith Padyhara, Fiona Stokes, Hugh Dixon, Puti Wilson & Stephen Hewet | paper |
| 4.4 | Key findings from mbieís first quarterly analysis of job vacancies from jobs online | Anne Fale | Amapola Generosa & Stuart King | |
| 4.4 | Accounting for changes in labour composition in the measurement of labour productivity; an update | Jonathan Sim | Daniel Griffiths | |
| 4.4 | Impact of urban expansions on relative land prices | Eilya Torshizian | ||
| 4.5 | Loan-to-value ratio restrictions and house prices: Micro evidence from New Zealand | Fang Yao | Hayden Skilling & Jed Armstrong | paper |
| 4.5 | The attractiveness of New Zealand cities: Dynamic adjustment and the role of amenities | Arthur Grimes | David Mare, Kate Preston & Stuart Donovan | |
| 4.5 | Earnings Volatility | Alexander Plum | Gail Pacheco, Malanie Borah & Kabir Dasgupta | |
| 4.6 | To ask or not to ask? ñ That is now the question | Sharon Snelgrove | Alexander Plum, Malanie Borah & Kabir Dasgupta | |
| 4.6 | Situated Learning on a Pre-degree Program: Experience and Reflections | Mary Hoover | Sean Kimpton | |
| 5.1 | Genuine savings as a test of New Zealand weak sustainability | Les Oxley | Eoin Mclaughlin & Mubashir Qasim | |
| 5.1 | The relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Treasuryís Living Standards Framework | Judd Ormsby | ||
| 5.1 | Human capital – measurement challenges and the risks and opportunities of the future | Suzy Morrissey | ||
| 5.2 | Robust adaptation decision-making under uncertainty: An application of real options analysis to decision-making in the water sector | Anita Wreford | ||
| 5.2 | Climate resilient Maori land investment decisions to enhance prosperity | Shaun Awatere | Juan Monge | |
| 5.2 | The EQC and weather events in New Zealand | Ilan Noy | David Fleming, Jacon Pastor-Paz & Sally Owen | |
| 5.2 | Is the market always right? Improving federal funds rate forecasts by adjusting for the term premium | Michael Callaghan | paper | |
| 5.3 | Interest rate convergence across maturities: Evidence from bank data in an emerging market economy | Mark Holmes | Ana Maria Iregui, Jesus Otero | |
| 5.3 | Will the real VAR please stand up? | Leo Krippner | Ben Wong & James Morley | |
| 5.3 | Impact of proximity to bus rapid transit on nearby property values in Auckland | Mingyue Sheng | Olga Filippova | paper |
| 5.4 | Residential movement within NZ: quantifying and characterising the transient population | Nan Jiang | Gail Pacheco & Kabir Dasgupta | paper |
| 5.4 | How transport policies can impact the health of New Zealanders | Ralph Samuelson | ||
| 5.4 | What do firms mean when they say they innovate? | Sharon Pells | ||
| 5.5 | The impact of aging population on stock prices: Evidence from New Zealand | Shrabani Saha | Hanxiong Zhang & Samanthala Hettihewa | |
| 5.5 | Competition in print advertising between paid and free newspapers | Geoffrey Brooke | Lydia Cheung | paper |
| 5.5 | Modelling occasionally binding constraints using regime-switching | Andrew Binning | Junior Maih | paper |
| 5.6 | On the reproducibility crisis and ways to fix it | Bob Reed | ||
| 6.1 | Using oligopoly theory to estimate the competitive impacts of land ownership institutions on Maori | Richard Meade | paper | |
| 6.1 | NZLVM: quantifying land value discontinuities arising from zoning in New Zealand | Phil Donovan | Alex Raichev, Peter Nunns & Saeid Adli | |
| 6.1 | Land use regulation, the redevelopment premium and house prices | Ryan Greenaway-Mcgrevy | Gail Pacheco & Kade Sorensen | paper |
| 6.2 | Climate change and the withdrawal of insurance in New Zealand | Belinda Storey | ||
| 6.2 | Economic assessment of droughts on agricultural productivity and profitability: A micro-level study | Farnaz Pourzand | Ilan Noy | |
| 6.2 | Assessing dairy farming Eco-efficiency in New Zealand: A twoñstage data envelopment analysis | Tarek Soliman | Utkur Djanibekov | paper |
| 6.3 | Impact of delivering credence attributes of livestock products on farm | Wei Yang | Gina Lucci, Stewart Ledgard, Geoff Mercer & Grant Rennie | paper |
| 6.3 | The global financial crisis and its impact on tourism sector in New Zealand | Rukmani Gounder | ||
| 6.3 | Reconceptualisation of income tax graduation as public equity | Keith Rankin | paper | |
| 6.4 | The efficiency effects of redistribution via minimum wages versus the tax-transfer system | Nazila Alinaghi | Norman Gemmell & John Creedy | |
| 6.4 | Impacts of facility construction and professional sports on metropolitan area development: evidence from China | Sam Richardson | Daoyang Zhang & Rukmani Gounder | |
| 6.5 | A pair-wise analysis of price convergence in Chinaís property market | Chao Li | John Gibson & Mark Holmes | |
| 6.5 | Spatial price differences and inequality in China: Evidence from a hedonic analysis of apartment prices | John Gibson | Chao Li | |
| 6.5 | Merit aid scholarships and human capital production in STEM: Evidence from New Mexico | Christopher Erwin | paper | |
| 6.6 | Measuring economic depreciation of commercial real estate using cash flow data | Iqbal Syed | Chihiro Shimizu | |
| 6.6 | The impact of voting rules on the violation of norms: Theory and laboratory evidence | Eberhard Feess | paper | |
| Poster | The (mis)allocation of public spending in a low income country: evidence from Bangladesh | Azreen Karim | paper | |
| Poster | Exploring the nexus between inflation and globalization under inflation targeting in NZ | Enrique Martinez-Garcia | paper | |
| Poster | Fiscal policy, wealth inequality and the business cycle: A Heterogeneous Agent Real Business Cycle Model | Finn Robinson | paper | |
| Poster | What’s up with Mondays? An investigation into the “Monday Effect” for injury claims | Michelle Poland | paper | |
| Poster | Wellbeing Frameworks for the Treasury | Nairn MacGibbon | paper | |
| Poster | Measuring the impact of Insurance on Urban Recovery with Light: The 2011 New Zealand Earthquake | Nhu Cuong Nguyen | paper | |
| Poster | Price Effects of Special Housing Programs in Auckland | Santiago Bucaram | Mario Fernandez | paper |
