2019 Conference papers
Keynotes:
- PRASANNA GAI, Deal or No Deal? Private Investment, Politics, and Policy Uncertainty (AWH Phillips Memorial Lecture)
- LATA GANGADHARAN, Gender and Leadership: Insights from experiments
- PATRICIA APPS, Income Inequality, Taxation and the Economics of the Household
- STEPHEN JENKINS, Better off? Comparing distributions of individuals’ subjective well-being (John McMillan Memorial Lecture)
Full programme attached, with links to papers where available.
| SESSION TITLE | PAPER TITLE | PRESENTER/S | CO-AUTHOR |
| 1.1 | Extricating land price indexes from improved property price indexes for New Zealand | Frances Krsinich | |
| Data and Evidence for Policy Themed Session | |||
| Medium-long term detailed Employment Outlook: Illustrative Trade disruption and Automation scenarios compared to Baseline results | Ram SriRamaratnam | ||
| Using Regional Economic Activity Tools for rapid regional economy analysis | Ben Wallace | ||
| 1.2 | Lenses on Wellbeing | Anita King | |
| Beyond GDP Themed Session | |||
| Beyond GDP: Cultural vibrancy, cultural capital and cultural wellbeing | Paul Dalziel | Caroline Saunders, Catherine Savage | |
| From wellbeing principles to policy action: some institutional considerations | Tim Ng | ||
| 1.3 | Institutions and Sustainable Development: The Application of Social-Ecological Systems (SESs) Framework for Environmental Management | Mohammad Salimifar | |
| Environment & Resources | |||
| The Spatial Effects of Resource Dependence in Indonesia | Rian Hilmawan | Jeremy Clark | |
| The effect of mining on household income and consumption: Evidence from Mongolia | Odmaa Narantungalag | ||
| 1.4 | Effects of Customers’ Personal Characteristics on the Use of Online Banking in New Zealand | Saba Azeem | |
| Accounting and Banking | |||
| Effects of health expenses and education on Bank deposits | Nikhil Srivastava | David Tripe, Oscar Lau | |
| Environmental-economic accounting and climate change | Adam Tipper | ||
| 1.5 | A Policy Evaluation of Home Detention on Recidivism: Evidence from New Zealand | Livvy Mitchell | |
| Crime | |||
| The minimum legal drinking age and crime in New Zealand: A difference-in-discontinuities approach | Christopher Erwin | Kabir Dasgupta, Alexander Plum, Gail Pacheco | |
| Labor Market Consequences of a Criminal Record | Peer Ebbesen Skov | Mikkel Baggesgaard Mertz | |
| 1.6 | Who lives in deprived places? The association between individual and area-level socioeconomic position. | Lucas Chen | Daniel Exeter, Nichola Shackleton, Jinfeng Zhao |
| Economic Geography | |||
| Exchange rate, remittances and expenditure of foreign- born households: evidence from Australia | Syed Hasan | Nazmun Ratna | |
| Contrasting Importance of Quality of Life and Quality of Business for Domestic and International Migrants | Arthur Grimes | Kate Preston, David Mare, Shaan Badenhorst, Stuart Donovan | |
| 2.1 | Relative values of non-market transport benefits | Joanne Leung Wayne Heerdegen | |
| Transport Themed Session | |||
| Reviewing Surface Transport Costs and Charges | Sandy Fong | ||
| Social impact assessment of transport policies: the Ministry of Transport’s proposed approach | Geoff Parr | ||
| 2.2 | Trade Policy Uncertainty and Economic Activity | Tom Fraser | Murat Ungor |
| Fiscal Policy | |||
| The New Zealand Superannuation Fund – clarifying how it works and explaining its outcomes | Matthew Bell | ||
| Sky’s the Limit? Investigating Fiscal Limits in New Zealand Using a Neoclassical Growth Model | Andrew Binning | Hemant Passi | |
| 2.3 | Estimating the impact of climate change and drought persistence on farmland values in New Zealand | Farnaz Pourzand | Ilan Noy, Kendon Bell |
| Agriculture | |||
| Optimal Land Use Switching Policy | Mahdi Yadipur | Toby Daglish, Yigit Saglam | |
| Crop Insurance under Restricted Access to Financial Markets | Daniel Voica | ||
| 2.4 | Fire or keep? Leave or stay? The other side of CEO retention | Tom Stannard | |
| Firm Governance | |||
| Re-estimating the effect of the User Cost of Capital on the investment behaviour of NZ firms | Gulnara Huseynli | Lynda Sanderson | |
| The Effect of Interest Caps on Bankruptcy: Synthetic Control Evidence from Recent Payday Lending Bans | Kabir Dasgupta | Brenden Mason | |
| 2.5 | Do the drivers of foreign direct investment have a reverse impact on foreign divestment? | Anh Nguyen | |
| Firm & Social Investment | |||
| FDI Provincial Competitions and Investment Incentive Policies: A Case in Vietnam | Linh Ho | Christopher Gan, Baiding Hu | |
| The Burden of Disease Attributable to Poor Housing Conditions in New Zealand | Lynn Riggs | ||
| 2.6 | The New Zealand Financial Cycle: 1968 – 2017 | Caitlin Davies | Prasanna Gai |
| NZ Economy 1 | |||
| The impact of global shocks on the New Zealand economy: A Bayesian VAR approach | Nam Ngo | Andrew Binning | |
| Changes in New Zealand’s Business Insolvency Rates after the GFC | Viv Hall | John McDermott | |
| 3.1 | Employer concentration and income growth in New Zealand | Christopher Ball | |
| Labour Markets & Monetary Policy | |||
| Monetary Policy and Labour Markets: Evidence from an Agnostic Identification | Tugrul Vehbi | Ozer Karagedikli | |
| Low wage growth, and job-to-job transitions: Evidence from administrative data in New Zealand | Murat Ozbilgin | Nicholas Groshenny, Ozer Karagedikli, Christopher Ball, Finn Robinson | |
| 3.2 | Short-term impacts of the pay equity settlement in the aged care sector | Corey Allan | Shakked Noy |
| Workforce & Future of Work | |||
| Implications of technology change for an ageing workforce | Corey Allan | ||
| Preparing for our aging population: Age profiles of business owners and employees in New Zealand | Lynda Sanderson, Donna Purdue | ||
| 3.3 | The Effect of Influenza Vaccination Subsidy on Respiratory | Dominic White | |
| Health 1 | |||
| 3.4 | Estimating intergenerational income mobility in New Zealand | Leon Iusitini | |
| Equality | |||
| The Economic Status of Women in New Zealand Since the 1980s: An Institutional Perspective | Mary Jo Vergara | ||
| Tax-transfer systems and New Zealand’s income inequality experience | Matthew Nolan | ||
| 3.5 | Success at the cost of pimples? | Shaan Badenhorst | |
| Education 1 | |||
| Returns to Initial Years of Formal Education: How Birthdate Affects Later Educational Outcomes | Asaad Ali | Andrea Menclova | |
| Self-Beliefs of Pasifika Business Students in Relation to Mathematics | Sean Kimpton | Kevin Byard, Irshad Ali, Zhaoyi Cao | |
| 3.6 | Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth | Benjamin Davies | David Mare |
| Regional & Local Growth | |||
| Estimating Regional GDP & Modelling Territorial Authority GDP | Graham Howard | Ben Wallace | |
| Successfully using electronic card transaction data to produce regional estimates of tourism spend | Michael Webster | ||
| 4.1 | New Zealand labour market trends | Tim Maddock | Terry Genet |
| Productivity Commission Themed Session | |||
| Labour productivity, the fiscal outlook, and living standards | Patrick Nolan | ||
| New Zealand tradable industry clusters and its business dynamics | Guanyu Zheng | ||
| 4.2 | Balancing National Accounts | Tracy Wilkinson | Lindsay Beck |
| Macroeconomic Methods | |||
| A Better Way to Calculate Import and Export Price Indexes | Matthew Stansfield | ||
| 4.3 | Inter-District Flow Transfers: Health and Economic Impacts | Bronwyn Bruce-brand | |
| Health 2 | |||
| What’s up with Mondays? An investigation into elevated injury claims on a Monday | Michelle Poland | ||
| Social Capital and Health: A Meta-Analysis | Robert Reed | Xindong Xue | |
| 4.4 | The Impact of the Canterbury Earthquakes on Earthquake Preparedness: A Difference-in-Differences Estimation | Hanna Habibi | Jan Feld |
| Disasters, Risk & PBRF | |||
| Trading Risk: Consumption versus Health under Pesticide Application | Daniel C. Voica | Troy Schmitz | |
| Is External Research Assessment Associated with Convergence or Divergence of Research Quality Across Universities and Disciplines? Evidence from the PBRF Process in New Zealand | Robert Buckle | John Creedy, Norman Gemmell | |
| 4.5 | Shaping our slice of heaven | Liza Van der Merwe | Linda Meade, Becky Burgess |
| Regional Development and Communities | |||
| The effect of emigration on child human capital and child labour: Evidence from Nepal | Hari Sharma | John Gibson | |
| The status of beneficiaries in New Zealand | Gail Duncan | ||
| 4.6 | Culture, fiscal policy and output volatility | Hien Thuc Pham | |
| Culture, Preference & Altruism | Does sibling gender effect economic preferences? | Thomas Dudek | Jan Feld, Eberhard Fess, Anne Brenoe |
| In Search of Effective Altruists | Stephen Knowles | Murat Genc, Trudy Sullivan | |
| 5.1 | Household Leverage and Asymmetric Housing Wealth Effects – Evidence from New Zealand | Fang Yao | |
| Topics in Central Banking | |||
| The transmission of monetary policy shocks in New Zealand | Evelyn Truong | Jamie Culling, Christie Smith | |
| Rationality and expectation formation at Central Banks | Severin Bernhard | Ozer Karagedikli, Ken Kuttner | |
| 5.2 | Innovation in regulated and competitive industries | Hristina Dantcheva | Diego Villalobos |
| Digital Markets & Competition Outcomes Session 1 | |||
| Airports regulation – evidence of the information disclosure regime working? | James Marshall | ||
| Assessment of competition in digital markets – challenges for economic analysis in the era of platforms, data and AI | Michal Mottl | ||
| 5.3 | Rental Affordability as a Determinant of House Price Affordability | Graham Squires | Don Webber |
| Housing | |||
| The Price Premium of Heritage in the Housing Market of Auckland, New Zealand | David Bade | Jose Castillo, Mario Fernandez, Joseph Aguil | |
| A matching simulation to assess affordable housing policies in Auckland | Mario Fernandez | ||
| 5.4 | What drives future electricity demand? | Kam Szeto | Michael Smith |
| Energy | |||
| Identifying and estimating excess profits in the New Zealand electricity industry | Geoff Bertram | ||
| Petrol prices [still] rise and fall at the same speed as international oil prices | Prince Siddharth | ||
| 5.5 | The drivers and consequences of parental leave decisions | Sophie Hale | Alex James, Isabelle Sin, Uli Zuelike |
| Labour Markets | |||
| Trust and total factor productivity: migration and social capital in New Zealand | Conal Smith | ||
| The Redistributive Effects of a Minimum Wage Increase in New Zealand: A Microsimulation Analysis | Nazila Alinaghi | John Creedy Norman Gemmel | |
| 5.6 | The difference-in-difference control trial | David Rea | Dean Hyslop |
| Wages, Unemployment & Method | |||
| How persistent are wage shocks? Testing the power of unit-root tests using high-frequency tax records. | Alexander Plum | Kabir Dasgupta | |
| The Beveridge curve across US states: new insights from a pairwise approach | Mark Holmes | Jesus Otero | |
| 6.1 | Early indicators of the impact of the Regional Fuel Tax on public transport use | David Norman | |
| Practical Policy & Advice in the Local Government Context | |||
| Recent changes in the value of urban land in Auckland | Shane Martin | ||
| Chair: Shane Martin Room: RHLT1 | Optimal use of areas zoned for higher intensity development | David Norman | |
| 6.2 | City with a billion dollar view | Geoff Cooper | Kabira Namit |
| Urban & Household Economics | |||
| The answer to urban renewal: Students | David Dyason | Ewert Kleynhans | |
| For Better or Worse? Fertility Challenges and Marital Dissolution | Neha Agarwal | Mindy Marks | |
| 6.3 | Trust, Incomes and Well-being in about 150 Countries | Tim Hazledine | |
| Wellbeing & Social Capital | |||
| Comparing Apples and Kumara: Well-Being and Profitability Implications of Maori using Land for Cultural Purposes | Richard Meade | ||
| The effect of student loan size on outcomes of bachelor’s graduates | Isabelle Sin | Ran Abramitzky | |
| 6.4 | Business confidence, news, cyclical turning points and economic growth | Milad Maralani | Eilya Torshizian |
| NZ Economy 2 | |||
| The impact of US withdrawal from WTO on the New Zealand economy | Milad Maralani | Eilya Torshizian | |
| Economists and Monetary Thought in Interwar New Zealand: The Gradual Emergence of Monetary Policy Activism | Geoffrey Brooke | Anthony Endres, Alan Rogers | |
| 6.5 | The causes and economic consequences of rising regional housing prices in New Zealand | Peter Nunns | |
| Housing, Work & Education | |||
| Internationally comparable work-related fatality numbers for New Zealand | Michelle Poland | ||
| Separating school from family: evaluating the effects of school and family background on student performance | Joel Hernandez | ||
| 6.6 | Freedom Campers in NZ: An activity-based analysis of their economic contribution | Peter Fieger | Girish Prayag, Colin Michael Hall |
| Regulation & Industry | |||
| Retrospective Study on Stuff (Fairfax)’s Exits in the Newspaper Industry | Lydia Cheung | Geoffrey Brooke | |
| Lobbying, Regulatory Enforcement and Corporate Governance: Theory and Evidence from Enforcement Actions against US Banks | Ansgar Wohlschlegel | Panagiota Papadimitri |
