AUT School of Economics
The AUT School of Economics has an established record and an on-going commitment to excellent research, high-quality supervision, and community and professional engagement. Members of the School sit on editorial boards and serve as referees for professional journals. The school has particular research strength in; Micro and macroeconomics, Econometrics, Industrial organisation, International trade and finance, Natural resource and environmental economics, Labour economics, Economic development, Health economics, and Public policy.
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Happiness Lost: Was the Decision to Implement Lockdown the Correct One?
(University of Pretoria, 2021)Background: Amid the rapid global spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many governments enforced country-wide lockdowns, likely with severe well-being consequences. The actions by governments triggered a ... -
A Method to Analyze the Sectoral Impact of Fiscal Support for COVID-19 Affected Economies: The Case of Oceania
(Elsevier, 2021)In this paper, we apply the method of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling in economics to ascertain how fiscal support measures such as wage subsidies, small business loans, and finance guarantee schemes have ... -
Impacts of China's Emissions Trading Scheme on the National and Hong Kong Economies: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
In this study, we estimate the economic impacts of China's official carbon-mitigation targets, in connection with Hong Kong's potential participation in a proposed national emissions trading scheme. We find that moderate ... -
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Lockdowns During Covid-19
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021)Amidst the rapid global spread of Covid-19, many governments enforced country-wide lockdowns, with likely severe well-being consequences. In this regard, South Africa is an extreme case suffering from low levels of well-being, ... -
Big Data and Happiness
(Global Labor Organization, 2020)The pursuit of happiness. What does that mean? Perhaps a more prominent question to ask is, 'how does one know whether people have succeeded in their pursuit'? Survey data, thus far, has served us well in determining where ... -
Inflation Expectations As a Policy Tool?
(Elsevier, 2020)We assess the prospects for central banks using inflation expectations as a policy tool for stabilization purposes. We review recent work on how expectations of agents are formed and how they affect their economic decisions. ... -
Firm’s Asset Holdings and Inflation Expectations
(Elsevier, 2020)This paper investigates the relationship between firms’ inflation expectations and their holdings of liquid assets. We implement a new quantitative survey of firms’ expectations about inflation in New Zealand. We find that ... -
Markov Switching Models for Happiness During a Pandemic: The New Zealand Experience
(Global Labor Organization, 2020)This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an ... -
Happiness-lost: Did Governments Make the Right Decisions to Combat Covid-19?
(Global Labor Organization, 2020)Amidst the rapid global spread of Covid-19, many governments enforced country-wide lockdowns, with likely severe well-being consequences. The actions by governments triggered a debate on whether the well-being and economic ... -
Sentiment, Emotions and Stock Market Predictability in Developed and Emerging Markets
(Global Labor Organization, 2020)This paper investigates the predictability of stock market movements using text data extracted from the social media platform, Twitter. We analyse text data to determine the sentiment and the emotion embedded in the Tweets ... -
Firms' Asset Holdings and Inflation Expectations
(Elsevier, 2018)This paper investigates the relationship between firms’ inflation expectations and their holdings of liquid assets. We implement a new quantitative survey of firms’ expectations about inflation in New Zealand. We find that ... -
Great Recession and Information Stickiness: Evidence from Sticky Information Phillips Curve
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020)We utilize the nonlinear least squares (NLLS) and seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) techniques to estimate information stickiness parameter λ for the USA. We find that λ values appeared in a somewhat humped shape or ... -
Testing for Structural Changes in the Wagner’s Law for a Sample of East Asian Countries
(Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2019)This paper examines the Wagner’s Law for a sample of East Asian countries (China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea) by utilizing the structural break methods viz., Gregory and Hansen (J Econom 70:99–126, 1996a; Oxf Bull ... -
Want to Improve Public Health Access? Let's Start with the Basics: Measuring Efficiency Correctly
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Tariff Liberalization in the RCEP Trade Agreement and Impact on India's Automobile Industry: An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis
(United Nations Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), 2019)Adequate attention has not been paid by researchers towards general equilibrium effects of trade liberalization particularly involving trade in global value chains (GVC) goods, in spite of its emergence being an established ... -
Explaining Ethnic Disparities in Bachelor’s Qualifications: Participation, Retention and Completion in New Zealand
(New Zealand Productivity Commission, 2017)There are substantial ethnic gaps in higher education in NZ, despite more than a decade of considerable policy effort aimed at this concern. This study uses newly linked administrative data to examine the underachievement ... -
Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements with Developing Economies: The Case of TPPA and ASEAN Member Countries
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2017)Labour provisions have been increasingly included in bilateral and regional trade arrangements. One recent example was the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), signed by twelve countries in 2016 but abandoned by the ... -
Efficiency of New Zealand's District Health Boards at Providing Hospital Services: a Stochastic Frontier Analysis
(Seoul National University, 2018)The majority of secondary and tertiary healthcare services in New Zealand are provided through public hospitals managed by 20 local District Health Boards (DHBs). Their performance were measured by a set of indicators ... -
The Impact of Social Workers in Schools: a Preliminary Investigation Using Linked Administrative Data
(Ministry of Social Development; Auckland University of Technology, 2018)No abstract. -
Factor-analysis-based Directional Distance Function: The Case of New Zealand Hospitals
(School of Economics. AUT University, 2019)This paper develops a new factor-analysis-based (FAB) approach for choosing the optimal direction in a directional distance function (DDF) analysis. It has the combined merits of factor analysis and slacks-based measure ...