The contents of New Zealand Economic Papers, Volume 50, Issue 3, 2016 (available online or by subscription):

• Introduction to NZEP Special Issue by Gary Hawke
• Fifty years of New Zealand Economic Papers: 1966 to 2015 by Robert A. Buckle & John Creedy
• Recessions and recoveries in New Zealand’s post-Second World War business cycles by Viv B. Hall & C. John McDermott
• Does New Zealand economics have a useful past? The example of trade policy and economic development by Geoffrey Brooke, Anthony Endres & Alan Rogers
• Eighty years of urban development in New Zealand: impacts of economic and natural factors by Arthur Grimes, Eyal Apatov, Larissa Lutchman & Anna Robinson
• Inequality in New Zealand 1983/84 to 2012/13 by Christopher Ball & John Creedy
• New Zealand’s experience with changing its inflation target and the impact on inflation expectations by Michelle Lewis & C. John McDermott
• Book review: A few hares to chase: the life and economics of Bill Phillips, by Alan Bollard, reviewed by Nicholas Barr