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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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 ... -
Does Economic Integration Stimulate Capital Mobility? An Analysis of Four Regional Economic Communities in Africa
(Elsevier, 2013)It is well known that high levels of regional integration enable portfolio risk diversification and capital mobility. While there have been a number of empirical attempts to verify the presence of capital mobility using ... -
Liquidity, Monetary Policy and Unemployment: A New Monetarist Approach
(AUT School of Economics, AUT University, 2017)We discover a consumption channel of monetary policy in a model with money and government bonds. When the central bank withdraws government bonds (short-term or long-term) through open market operations, it lowers returns ... -
On the Economics of Trade Agreements: Who Gains and Who Loses?
(The Policy Observatory, AUT University, 2017)No abstract. -
Does New Zealand Economics Have a Useful Past? The Example of Trade Policy and Economic Development
(Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology, 2015)We examine the history of economic thought on trade policy in New Zealand from the 1920s to the early 1980s. The focus is upon the different doctrinal perspectives taken by academic economists in New Zealand. Throughout ... -
Pension Saving Responses to Anticipated Tax Changes: Evidence From Monthly Pension Contribution Records
(Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 2016)A Danish tax reform, decided in May 2009 and taking effect from the beginning of 2010, lowered the marginal tax rate on top bracket taxable income from 63% to 56%. Because contributions to pension accounts are tax ... -
The regulation of direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals in a managed care setting
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)We analyze direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in the prescription drug market, when a regulator imposes a fine for misleading advertisements (truth-in-advertising regulation) and doctors face pressure to contain prescribing ... -
Binary choice probabilities on mixture sets
(The Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences (CMSS), the University of Auckland, 2014)No abstract. -
Binary choice probabilities on mixture sets
(School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Experimental evidence suggests that choice behaviour has a stochastic element. Much of this evidence is based on studying choices between lotteries – choice under risk. Binary choice probabilities admit a strong utility ... -
Fast decoding algorithms for coded aperture systems
(Elsevier, 2014)Fast decoding algorithms are described for a number of established coded aperture systems. The fast decoding algorithms for all these systems offer significant reductions in the number of calculations required when ... -
Can India plug into Asian international production networks through RTAs?
(Murdoch University, 2013)Recent literature has focused attention on the important question of whether the current trend of proliferation of bilateral and regional trade agreements can facilitate creation and development of international production ... -
A typology of service supply chain strategies - pathways between agility and efficiency
(Australia New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), 2012)Various service supply chain strategies may provide firms with competitive advantage, providing appropriate pathways between different configurations are identified. Using a case study and a theory building process, we ... -
Students’ perceptions on using blogs for reflective learning in higher educational contexts
(The Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), 2013)Increasingly, blogs are being used by educators in higher education for teaching and learning as they have numerous pedagogical benefits. This study describes and analyses the use of blogs as a private journal or e-portfolio ... -
What determines students’ choices of elective modules?
(University of Bristol, 2013)Prior literature emphasises supply side issues concerning the modularisation of university programmes such as curricula issues and enhanced learning opportunities. Comparatively little is known about the demand side, such ...