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| Time | Title | Presenter |
| Keynote 1 | ||
| 01-Jul 09:00 | Two New Zealand Pioneer Econometricians | Peter Phillips, Dept Of Economics, University of Auckland |
| 1.1 Economic Growth in NZ | ||
| 01-Jul 11:00 | The Development Of The Study Of Economic Growth In New Zealand: The Fathers That Begat Us | Brian Easton |
| 1.2 Trade and Inflation | ||
| 01-Jul 11:00 | Do Free-Trade Agreements Really Work? (QA) | Antong Victorio |
| 01-Jul 11:30 | Putting Credit Back into Monetary Policy: Reconstructing the New Zealand Monetary Policy Framework | David A Preston |
| 1.3 Public Policy | ||
| 01-Jul 11:00 | What Psychoanalysis Can Tell Economists About Food Consumption | William Kaye-Blake |
| 01-Jul 11:30 | Raising A Daughter Is Like Watering Your Neighbour’s Garden: The Determinants Of Son Preference In India (QA) | Marie-Claire Robitaille |
| 01-Jul 12:00 | Costs of Harmful Alcohol and Other Drug Use in New Zealand, 2005/06 (QA) | Adrian Slack, Ganesh Nana, Michael Webster, Fiona Stokes, Jiani Wu |
| 1.4 Land Use & Tourism | ||
| 01-Jul 11:00 | Drivers Of Land Use Change In New Zealand: New Results | Cleo Ren, Suzi Kerr |
| 01-Jul 11:30 | The Base Of Operations: Estimating New Zealand’s Productive Capital Stock Of Non-Agricultural Land | Jodi York |
| 01-Jul 12:00 | Distance Models for New Zealand International Visitors | Aaron Schiff, Susanne Becken |
| 1.5 Experimental Economics | ||
| 01-Jul 11:00 | Trust and Social Distance in Cameroon | Alvin Etang, David Fielding, Stephen Knowles |
| 01-Jul 11:30 | Words Speak Louder Than Money (QA) | Maros Servatka, Steven Tucker, Radovan Vadovic |
| 01-Jul 12:00 | An Experimental Study of Bubble Formation in Asset Markets Using the Tatonnement Pricing Mechanism (QA) | Steven Tucker, Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Daniela Puzzello |
| 1.6 Regional Transport | ||
| 01-Jul 11:00 | Transport Interventions – Towards ‘Value For Money’ Over Time | Ian Duncan |
| 01-Jul 11:30 | Spatial Effects of “Mill” closures: Does distance matter? | Christopher Young, Arthur Grimes |
| 01-Jul 12:00 | Agglomeration Elasticities in New Zealand | Dave Mare, Daniel J Graham |
| 1.7 DSGE (Macro Modelling) | ||
| 01-Jul 11:00 | KITT: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s new DSGE forecasting and policy model | Kirdan Lees, Andrew Binning, Troy Matheson, Martin Fukac, Jaromir Benes |
| 01-Jul 11:30 | Withdrawn | |
| 01-Jul 12:00 | Impulse Responses Identification in DSGE Models | Martin Fukac |
| 2.1 Education and Earnings | ||
| 01-Jul 13:30 | Staying Or Leaving New Zealand After You Graduate? Brain Drain And Brain Circulation Issues Facing Graduates | William Kaliyati |
| 01-Jul 14:00 | On Estimating the Effect of Education on Earnings from a Change in Minimum Wage | Liana Jacobi, Siddhartha Chib |
| 2.2 NZ Topics | ||
| 01-Jul 13:30 | A Multi-regional CGE Model for New Zealand | Nathaniel Robson |
| 01-Jul 14:00 | Economic Impacts Of Transport & Tourism In New Zealand: An Input-Output Multipliers Approach | Tantri Tantirigama, Mei Taniguchi-Singh |
| 01-Jul 14:30 | Architects as Forecasters of Residential Investment Spending | Brian Silverstone, Mark J. Holmes, James Mitchell |
| 2.3 Housing | ||
| 01-Jul 13:30 | Developing A Stratified House Price Measure For New Zealand | Chris McDonald, Mark Smith |
| 01-Jul 14:00 | Using Hedonic Regression To Assess The Housing Rentals Component Of The New Zealand Consumers Price Index | Frances Krsinich |
| 01-Jul 14:30 | Hedonic Prices from Sequential Bargaining (QA) | Antong Victorio |
| 2.4 Public | ||
| 01-Jul 13:30 | Thin Subsidies And Fat Taxes: Economic Instruments For Addressing Food Inadequacy And Nutrition Issues | Des O’Dea, Delvina Gorton |
| 01-Jul 14:00 | A combined qualitative and quantitative approach to understanding social capital in New Zealand’s economic performance. | Matthew Roskruge, Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann, Jacques Poot |
| 01-Jul 14:30 | Company Taxation in New Zealand | Matt Benge, David Holland |
| 2.5 Productivity 1 | ||
| 01-Jul 13:30 | An Analysis Of The Differential Impacts Of Overskilling By Educational Pathway: Is Vocational Education A Safer Route? (QA) | Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Yin King Fok |
| 01-Jul 14:00 | Adjusting for changes in labour composition in Statistics NZ’s productivity series | Thomas McNaughton |
| 01-Jul 14:30 | The Need for Speed: Impacts of Internet Connectivity on Firm Productivity | Arthur Grimes, Cleo Ren, Philip Stevens |
| 2.6 Economics Discipline | ||
| 01-Jul 13:30 | An Economic Theory of Democracy Revisited – Downs with Traction | Stuart Birks |
| 01-Jul 14:00 | PBRF And The Returns To Publication Quality In The New Zealand Market For Academic Economists | John Tressler, John Gibson, David L. Anderson |
| 01-Jul 14:30 | Results from the NZAE 2008 Web Survey | William Kaye-Blake |
| 2.7 Research & Development | ||
| 01-Jul 13:30 | R&D Purchasing Power Parities for Industries and Public and Tertiary Research Institutions | Alistair Ramsden, Law-Lay Luo, Julian Williams |
| 01-Jul 14:00 | Business R&D: Describing the context for R&D measures in New Zealand firms | Kathleen Palmer |
| 3.1 NZ Economic History | ||
| 01-Jul 15:30 | A Quarterly Post-World War II Real GDP Series for New Zealand: Properties, Business Cycle Turning Points, and Recessions | Viv Hall, John McDermott |
| 01-Jul 16:00 | 50 Years of Structural Change: An Analysis of Input-Output Tables since 1953 | Ralph Lattimore, Iris Claus, Trinh Lee, Adolf Stroombergen |
| 01-Jul 16:30 | Real Wages in New Zealand, 1840 – 1914 | Geoffrey Brooke |
| 3.2 Education 1 | ||
| 01-Jul 15:30 | Do Essay And Multiple-Choice Questions Measure The Same Thing? (QA) | Bob Reed, Stephen Hickson |
| 01-Jul 16:00 | “Looking Back Moving Forward”: Reviewing Economics Curriculum for 2009 and beyond | Sam Richardson, Fay Patel, Kogi Naidoo |
| 01-Jul 16:30 | Testing the effectiveness of in-semester assessment in Econ 101 | Gillis Maclean, Paul McKeown |
| 3.3 NZ Labour | ||
| 01-Jul 15:30 | Job Mobility and Wage Dynamics | Dave Mare, Dean Hyslop |
| 01-Jul 16:00 | Degrees of separation in the New Zealand Workforce: Evidence from linked employer-employee data. | Nairn MacGibbon |
| 01-Jul 16:30 | New technology and the quality of working life in New Zealand | Chris Hector, John Gibson, Ted Zorn |
| 3.4 Development & Infrastructure | ||
| 01-Jul 15:30 | The Spatial Impact of Local Infrastructural Investment in New Zealand | William Cochrane, Arthur Grimes. Phillip McCann |
| 01-Jul 16:00 | Corruption and Economic Development Nexus: Variation Across Regions and Income Levels | Shrabani Saha, Rukmani Gounder |
| 01-Jul 16:30 | The Millennium Development Goals: Does Aid Help? (QA) | Arlene Garces-Ozanne |
| 3.5 Studies of Firms | ||
| 01-Jul 15:30 | Innovation in New Zealand: Issues of Firm Size, Local Market Size and Economic Geography (QA) | Hong Shangqin, Philip McCann, Les Oxley |
| 01-Jul 16:00 | New Insights On Price-Setting Behaviour In The United Kingdom | Miles Parker, Jennifer Greenslade |
| 01-Jul 16:30 | Factors Affecting Non-Response in the Annual Enterprise Survey, 2003-2007 | Walter Davis, Nathaniel Pihama |
| 3.6 Greenhouse Gases | ||
| 01-Jul 15:30 | Climate Change Impacts On New Zealand’s Agricultural Trade Wei Zhang, Suzi Kerr, William Power | 4:00pm |
| 01-Jul 16:00 | Estimating a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve of Greenhouse Gas Emissions within the New Zealand Agriculture and Forestry Sector | Stewart Sinclair, Suzi Kerr, Wei Zhang |
| 3.7 Finance and Employment | ||
| 01-Jul 15:30 | Does Civil War Violence Contribute to Exchange Rate Fluctuations? Evidence from Uganda (QA) | Francis Odhuno |
| 01-Jul 16:00 | Seven Leading Indexes Of New Zealand Employment | Edda Claus |
| Keynote 2 | ||
| 02-Jul 09:00 | “Why Doesn’t Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?” | Professor Robert MacCulloch |
| 4.1 Tax Policy Reform | ||
| 02-Jul 11:00 | Paper 1 Distributional & Other Implications of Land/ Property Taxes | Andrew Coleman & Arthur Grimes |
| 02-Jul 11:30 | Paper 2 The Long Term Effects of a Capital Gains Tax on New Zealand’s Housing Markets | Andrew Coleman |
| 02-Jul 12:00 | Paper 3 Demographic Change: Implications for Taxes and Expenditures in New Zealand | John Creedy, Norman Gemmell and Angela Mellish |
| 4.2 Education 2 | ||
| 02-Jul 11:00 | Schumpeter’s “Vision” and the Teaching of Principles of Economics (QA) | Paul Dalziel |
| 02-Jul 11:30 | Too Fast And Too Furious? Increasing The Breadth And Depth Of Introductory Economics. | Michael Cameron, Steven Lim |
| 02-Jul 12:00 | Learning Styles and Introductory Economics: A Matter of Translation | Mary Hedges |
| 4.3 Immigration | ||
| 02-Jul 11:00 | The Labour Market Adjustment of Immigrants in New Zealand | Dave Mare, Steven Stillman |
| 02-Jul 11:30 | Trade, Diaspora and Migration to New Zealand (QA) | Murat Genc, David Law, John Bryant |
| 4.4 Sport | ||
| 02-Jul 11:00 | Inferring the Contribution of Ground Conditions to Score Variability in ODI Cricket (QA) | Seamus Hogan, Scott Brooker |
| 02-Jul 11:30 | Determining Batting Production Possibility Frontiers In One Day International (ODI) Cricket. | Scott Brooker |
| 4.5 Macro Finance 1 | ||
| 02-Jul 11:00 | The Effects of Australian Macroeconomic News On The New Zealand Dollar | Ozer Karagedikli, Andrew C Coleman |
| 02-Jul 11:30 | Hedging Overseas Foreign Currency Liabilities: The New Zealand Experience | Wayne Dahlberg |
| 02-Jul 12:00 | A Theoretical Foundation For The Nelson And Siegel Class Of Yield Curve Models | Leo Krippner |
| 4.6 Family and Labour Force Participation | ||
| 02-Jul 11:00 | Costs Of Raising Children | Iris Claus, Geoff Leggett and Xin Wang. |
| 02-Jul 11:30 | Can The “In Work Tax Credit” Be Justified As An In-Work Benefit? | Susan St John, M Claire Dale |
| 02-Jul 12:00 | The Effects of Health and Wealth on the Labour Supply and Retirement Decisions of Older New Zealanders | James Enright, Grant M. Scobie |
| 4.7 Statistics and Econometrics | ||
| 02-Jul 11:00 | Measuring Progress? How Statistics New Zealand Has Measured The Economy Since 1945 | Rosemary Goodyear, Anne McAllister, Dean Condon |
| 02-Jul 11:30 | Attrition in the Longitudinal Immigration Survey: New Zealand | John Bryant, Frances Krsinich |
| 02-Jul 12:00 | Testing Parameter Constancy When the Regressor May Have a Near Unit Root (QA) | Masako Miyanishi |
| 5.1 Macro Finance 2 | ||
| 02-Jul 14:00 | Central Banking – Looking Back, Moving Forward | Bruce White |
| 02-Jul 14:30 | Does Natural Rate Variation Matter? Evidence From New Zealand | Michael Kirker |
| 02-Jul 15:00 | The Ripple Starts Here; 1694-2009 Finishing the Past | Lowell Manning |
| 5.2 Ecosystems | ||
| 02-Jul 14:00 | Natural Capital, Subjective Well-Being, and the New Welfare Economics of Sustainability: Some Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions (QA) | Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht |
| 02-Jul 14:30 | Estimating the Value of Environmental Impact of Dairy Farming on Ecosystem Services in New Zealand | Ramesh Baskaran, Ross Cullen, Sergio Colombo |
| 02-Jul 15:00 | The Influence Of Local Environmental Quality On Values For River And Stream Conservation Programs In Canterbury | Peter Tait, Ross Cullen, Kathryn Bicknell |
| 5.3 Health | ||
| 02-Jul 14:00 | Joint Demands for Health Insurance and Health Care: Evidence from Australia | Malathi Velamuri, Damien Eldridge, Cagatay Koc, Ilke Onur |
| 02-Jul 14:30 | Change Of Access To Health Service In China, 1997-2006 | Yun Liang |
| 5.4 Special Topics | ||
| 02-Jul 14:00 | Political Ignorance and Policy Preferences (QA) | Eric Crampton |
| 02-Jul 14:30 | Productivity And Efficiency Measurement In The Water Supply Industry (QA) | Malcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen |
| 02-Jul 15:00 | Are Butter and Margarine Close Substitutes? Probably Not Close Enough! | Qing Yang, David Law |
| 5.5 Exporting | ||
| 02-Jul 14:00 | Entrepreneurship And Aggregate Merchandise Trade Growth In New Zealand | Richard Fabling, Lynda Sanderson |
| 02-Jul 14:30 | The evolution of export unit values: Some stylised facts | Sophie Joyce, Richard Fabling, Lynda Sanderson |
| 02-Jul 15:00 | Exporting and performance: The impact of destination characteristics on learning effects | Lynda Sanderson, Richard Fabling |
| 5.6 Productivity 2 | ||
| 02-Jul 14:00 | Competition in New Zealand: An analysis Using Micro Data | Philip Stevens |
| 02-Jul 14:30 | Qualitative Factors That Influenced The Success Of New Zealand Firms At Internationalising | Duncan Chadwick |
| 02-Jul 15:00 | Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment in New Zealand: Firm level Evidence | Krishna Iyer, Philip Stevens |
| 5.7 Household Wealth | ||
| 02-Jul 14:00 | Evaluating Household Expenditures And Their Relationship With House Prices At The Microeconomic Level | Mark Smith |
| 02-Jul 14:30 | Estimating Household Saving As Change In Wealth From The Survey Of Family, Income And Employment | Trinh Le, John Gibson, Steve Stillman |
| 02-Jul 15:00 | Beyond Reasonable Debt: The Extent To Which Financial Behaviour Can Explain Over-Indebtedness Among New Zealand Families | Jaime Legg |
| 5.8 Education Roundtable (Invitation Only) | ||
| 02-Jul 14:00 | What Should Be Contained In The High School Economics Curriculum? | Steve Agnew, Seamus Hogan |
| Keynote 3 AWH Phillips Lecture | ||
| 02-Jul 16:00 | Programme Evaluation | Professor Dean Hyslop |
| Keynote 4 | ||
| 03-Jul 09:30 | Institutions and quasi-constitutional mechanisms for better regulatory practice | Hon Rodney Hide, Minister for Regulatory Reform, Leader NZ ACT Party |
| Panel on The Global Financial Crisis: Its Causes And Consequences – Globally And In New Zealand. | ||
| 03-Jul 11:00 | An international and historical perspective on the global credit crisis | Dr Michael Bordo, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University |
| 03-Jul 11:30 | How the credit crisis is working its way through the NZ financial system | Anthony Byett, Economist, fxmatters.co.nz |
| 03-Jul 12:00 | What the credit crisis means for the wider NZ economy | Dr Ganesh Nana, Chief Economist, BERL |