Browsing AUT School of Economics by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
On the Economics of Trade Agreements: Who Gains and Who Loses?
(The Policy Observatory, AUT University, 2017)No abstract. -
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 ... -
Quitting behaviour in good (and bad) work places
(Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 2011)This paper argues that the decision to quit is strongly influenced by employee perceptions of the quality of the work environment (QWE), and that ignoring QWE can lead to incorrect conclusions concerning the influence of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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
(Springer, 2020)No abstract. -
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 ...