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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 ... -
Estimating the cost of youth disengagement in Auckland
(Dept. of Economics, AUT University, 2013)There has been growing interest in recent years in the labour market issues that youth face. Youth exclusion, disengagement, and overall underutilisation in the labour market has short term costs to the economy, as well ... -
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 ... -
Extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation: does major choice make a difference?
(New Zealand Association of Economists, 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Is the US demand for money unstable?
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2011)The demand for money (M1) for the USA is estimated with annual data from 1960-2008 and its stability is analyzed with the extended Gregory and Hansen (1996b) test. In addition to estimating the canonical specification, ... -
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 ... -
Levers of job satisfaction: participative decision making and individual characteristics
(Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), 2011)This paper demonstrates that the determinants of job satisfaction do not change if the worker has decision making freedom and that the impact of some individual characteristics on job satisfaction follow interesting patterns ... -
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 ...