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February 22 2012
2012 Conference – Final Call for Papers
Final Call for Papers 53rd New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference To be held at the Palmerston North Convention Centre 27 June – 29 June 2012 Extended period for submission:…
February 22 2012
Sir Frank Holmes passes away
Sir Frank Holmes, a distinguished New Zealand economist and one of the founders of the New Zealand Association of Economists and the first editor of New Zealand Economic Papers, passed…
February 15 2012
USM-AUT International Conference (UAIC) 2012 – Sustainable Economic Development: Policies and Strategies (Nov-12)
UAIC 2012 (November 17th-18th, Malysia) aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum and to discuss the practical challenges in promoting sustainable economic development by providing a platform to share, ideas, experiences…
January 31 2012
Applications sought for the tenth A R Bergstrom Prize in Econometrics by 24-Aug-12
Applications are now being sought for the tenth A R Bergstrom Prize in Econometrics. The objective of the Prize is to reward the achievement of excellence in econometrics, as evidenced…
January 19 2012
March 2012 AI (#43) remembers Roger Kerr
The March 2012 Issue of Asymmetric Information is now available online here.
December 21 2011
December 2011 NZEP available now
The contents of New Zealand Economic Papers, Volume 45, Issue 3, December 2011 (available online or by subscription):
August 19 2011
9th A R Bergstrom Prize in Econometrics to David Baqaee
The 2010 A R Bergstrom Prize in Econometrics has been awarded to David Baqaee, PhD student, Harvard University, for his paper “Using Wavelets to Measure Core Inflation: the Case of New Zealand”. David’s paper…
August 18 2011
The future is now
It is a truism that Western economies face a demographic problem: more older people and fewer working-age people will mean a higher dependency ratio. This future problem, we are told,…
August 16 2011
What’s this ‘we’ stuff?
Alex Tabarrok posted at Marginal Revolution about sticky wages. It’s an interesting bit of mathematics. I can see his point, that sticky wages for employed people can keep the labour…
August 10 2011
Models matter
I’ve been turning this over in my head for weeks. Obviously, the economic/political problems in the US are one of biggest economic issues going, and I’ve not blogged about them.…
July 22 2011
Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds
NZIER (where I work) has just published a new Insight on the next steps for water policy. The Royal Society recently published an issues paper on ecosystem services. Natural capital…
July 18 2011
Double taxation doublespeak
I generally stay out of tax debates. I don’t know the economic theories, and valid comparisons are difficult to make. This comparison by Rodney Hide (via Kiwiblog) bothered me, however:…
July 14 2011
Conference 2012 dates set
The 53rd Annual Conference will be held at the Convention Centre in Palmerston North on 27-29th June 2012 more
July 2 2011
Conference 2011 papers available
The 52nd Annual Conference was successfully held at the Amora Hotel in Wellington on 29th June to 1st July 2011. Details, including copies of papers, can be found at Conference 2011
July 2 2011
Jan Whitwell prize awarded to Alex Olssen
The Jan Whitwell prize was awarded to Alex Olssen at the NZAE 2011 Conference.
July 1 2011
History of Economics at the University of Otago
From the University of Otago School of Business … “An official book launch celebrating Emeritus Professor Lyall McLean’s “A History of Economics and the Development of Commerce Degrees at the…
July 1 2011
Nominations sought for 2011 NZIER Economics Award
The annual NZIER Economics Award promotes and recognises excellence in economics of relevance to New Zealand. Nominations for the 2011 Award are now open. For further details visit www.nzier.org.nz/public-good/nzier-economics-award
June 30 2011
Scoping the History of Economics in New Zealand
Gary Hawke and Ralph Lattimore presented the paper History of NZAE 20 July 05 at the New Zealand Association of Economists Meetings, Christchurch, June 2005. The paper is work in…
June 30 2011
Stuart Birks elected NZAE Life Member
It is with great pleasure the Association honours Stuart Birks with the award of life membership of the NZ Association of Economists. Stuart arrived at Massey University in 1978, after…
June 7 2011
Tim Harford – reviews
Tim Harford, columnist for the Financial Times and author a new book, Adapt, will be delivering the opening keynote address at the NZAE conference on 29 June in Wellington. The…
