The full NZAE Conference 2011 booklet is available here

To find a paper click on the relevant concurrent session below –

• Concurrent Session 1 – Wednesday 29 June 11.00am – 12.30pm
• Concurrent Session 2 – Wednesday 29 June 1.30pm – 3.00pm
• Concurrent Session 3 – Thursday 30 June 10.30am – 12.00pm
• Concurrent Session 4 – Thursday 30 June 2.00pm – 3.30pm
• Concurrent Session 5 – Thursday 30 June 4.00pm – 5.30pm
• Concurrent Session 6 – Friday 1 July 11.00am – 12.30pm
  

Concurrent Session 1, Wednesday 29 June 11.00am – 12.30pm

Competition, chaired by Phil Stevens

• Competition In New Zealand Industries: Measurement And Evidence Hilary Devine, Tinh Doan, Kris Iyer, Penny Mok and Philip Stevens
• A Firm-Level Analysis Of Competition, Innovation And Productivity In New Zealand Kris Iyer, Hilary Devine, Tinh Doan, Penny Mok and Philip Stevens
• The Dynamics of Competition in New Zealand Penny Mok, Hilary Devine, Tinh Doan, Kris Iyer and Philip Stevens

Money and Inflation, chaired by Christie Smith

• CPI Inflation Targetting and The UIP Puzzle: An Appraisal of Instrument and Target Rules Alfred Guender
• (Re) Introducing Money Into The New Keynesian Framework Nicholas Sander
• Australasian Money Demand Stability:Application Of Structural Break Tests Saten Kumar and Don J Webber

Methodology, chaired by Richard Watt

• A Gaussian Test For Unit Roots With An Application To Great Ratios Gulasekaran Rajaguru and Tilak Abeysinghe
• One For All Or All For One? Using Multiple-Listing Information In Event Studies Bob Reed

Housing and Development, chaired by David Fielding

• Warming up New Zealand: Impacts of the New Zealand Insulation Fund on Household Energy Use Arthur Grimes
• New Institutional Economics In The Perspective Of Small Settler Economies Andre Schlueter
• Labour Market Returns To Higher Education In Vietnam Tinh Doan

Economics Education, chaired by Hugh McDonald

• The Teaching and Assessment of Output Taxes and Subsidies. Who’s Got it Right? Stephen Agnew
• Lights, Camera, Economics: A Novel Video Project Assessment In Introductory Microeconomics Michael Cameron and Steven Lim
• To Use Constructed-Response Assessments, Or Not To Use Constructed-Response Assessments? That Is The Question Stephen Hickson

Demographics, chaired by Stuart Birks

• Funding The Long Goodnight: The Rapidly Growing Market For Long-Term Care Of The Frail Elderly M Claire Dale and Susan St John
• Funding The Long Goodnight: More Intragenerational Risk Sharing Susan St John & M Claire Dale
• Disaggregated Migration Flow Analysis for New Zealand: Forecast of Arrivals and Departures by Citizenship and Destination Ram SriRamaratnam,Dirk van Seventer and Xintao Zhao

Concurrent Session 2, Wednesday 29 June 1.30pm – 3.00pm

Heterodox Workshop, chaired by Mary Hedges

• Methodological Pluralism:A Model And Example Of Alternative Methods Mary Hedges
• Is It Economics? The Case For A Broad Approach To Economics Research Stuart Birks
• General discussion chaired by Mary Hedges

Output and Growth, chaired by Norman Gemmell

• Measuring The Contribution Of Financial Intermediation To Gross Domestic Product Bruce Omundsen
• Explaining Some Puzzles in the Estimated Response of New Zealand GDP to Fiscal Shocks David Fielding, Peter Gardiner and Oscar Parker

Oil and Income Convergence, chaired by Arthur Grimes

• To What Extent are US Regional Incomes Converging? Mark Holmes, Jesus Otero and Theodore Panagiotidis
• Estimating The Effects Of Permanent Oil Price Shocks Consistent With Optimal Factor Allocation Emmanuel De Veirman and Felipe Labbé
• Spillover Effects Of World Oil Prices On Food Prices: Evidence For Asia And Pacific Countries Fardous Alom, Bert D. Ward and Baiding Hu

Production and Innovation, chaired by David Grimmond

• What Drives Innovation In New Zealand? Some Preliminary Results Using The Business Operations Survey Maggie Hong
• Measuring Economic Impact In The New Zealand Science System Kathleen Palmer
• Revenue Sharing As Compensation For Essential Inputs Richard Watt

Sport and The Charitable Sector, chaired by Seamus Hogan

• Valuing Sport And Recreation In New Zealand Paul Dalziel
• Playoff Uncertainty, Match Uncertainty And Attendance At Australian National Rugby League Matches Dorian Owen
• Giving To Africa And Perceptions Of Poverty Stephen Knowles, Alvin Etang and David Fielding

Elasticities and Factor Substitution, chaired by Kris Iyer

• Review Of Export Elasticities: Stock Take And Next Steps James Allen and John Ballingall
• One For All? The Capital-Labour Substitution Elasticity In New Zealand Adam Tipper
• CGE Analysis and the Welfare Impact of Factor Substitution James Zuccollo

Concurrent Session 3, Thursday 30 June 10.30am – 12.00pm

Labour, chaired by Peter Conway

• Exploring The Probabilistic Link Between The Household Labour Force Survey And The Linked Employer-Employee Dataset A McLeish Martin
• Small Area Estimation Of Unemployment: From Feasibility To Implementation Soon Song
• A Fresh Insight into New Zealand’s Labour Market: Unit Labour Costs Lizette Van Heerden and Paul Sutherland, and Eldon Paki

Land and Natural Resources, chaired by Suzi Kerr

• Preferences For Coastal Erosion Management Options: A Latent Class Analysis Of Visitors To Buffalo Beach Yvonne Phillips
• Empirical Discrete Choice Models Of Land Use And Land Use Change In Rural New Zealand Levente Timar
• The Value Of ‘Free’: Estimating The Contribution Of Free Water Inputs To Agriculture Industry Productivity Jodi York

CPI, chaired by Gary Hawke

• An Analysis of Provincial District Prices in New Zealand: 1885-1913 Ekaterina Sadetskaya
• Estimating Price Movements From Scanner Data Frances Krisinich
• Early Influences on the Development of a Consumer’s Price Index in New Zealand James Keating, Sharleen Forbes, Evan Roberts and Corin Higgs

Fiscal Issues, chaired by Paul Dalziel

• Broadening Our Understanding of Living Standards: International Developments in Defining and Measuring Wellbeing and Treasury’s New Policy Framework Ben Gleisner and Mary Llewellyn-Fowler, and Fiona McAlister and Rachel Pettigrew
• The Fiscal Incidence Of Government Expenditure In New Zealand In 1987/88, 1997/98 and 2006/07 Matthew Gibbons, Omar Aziz and Gerald Minnee
• Basic Income Flat Tax And Public Property Rights Keith Rankin

FDI/Policy, chaired by Ozer Karagedikli

• The Ultimate Sources Of Foreign Direct Investment Mallika Kelkar
• The Framing and Econometrics of Child Support Stuart Birks

Taxes and Savings, chaired by Andrew Coleman

• The Elasticity Of Taxable Income And The Tax Revenue Elasticity John Creedy and Norman Gemmell
• Kiwisaver: An Initial Evaluation David Law, Lisa Meehan and Grant Scobie (updated)
• Did Monetary Policy Reduce The New Zealand Savings Rate? David Preston

Concurrent Session 4, Thursday 30 June 2.00pm – 3.30pm

Experimental, chaired by Ananish Chaudhuri

• Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns Of Consumers? The Case Of A Minimum Wage Dirk Engelmann
• Does Competition Resolve The Free-Rider Problem In The Voluntary Provision Of Impure Public Goods? Experimental Evidence Maroš Servátka and Tibor Neugebauer
• An Experimental Study Of Bubble Formation In Asset Markets Using The Tâtonnement Trading Institution Steven Tucker

Land and Natural Resources 2, chaired by Carolyn Saunders

• Nutrient Management In Lake Rotorua: Using The Nmanager Model Simon Anastasiadis, Marie-Laure Nauleau, Tim Cox, Suzi Kerr and Kit Rutherford
• Does Tenure Review in New Zealand’s South Island Give Rise to Rents? Philip Meguire, Ann Brower and Alba DeParte
• Modelling Economic Impacts Of Nutrient Reduction Policies In Hurunui And Waiau Catchments Oshadhi Samarasinghe, Adam Daigneault, Robyn Sinclair and Suzie Greenhalgh

Macroeconomics, chaired by Mark Holmes

• The Response Of Consumption To Transitory Wealth Changes Emmanuel De Veirman
• Recessions and Recoveries in New Zealand’s Post-World War II Business Cycles Viv Hall
• Using Macroeconomic Forecasts to Produce Detailed Forecasts of Industry GDP and Employment David Grimmond

Banking and Finance, chaired by Alfred Guender

• An Empirical Assessment Of Australasian Bank Interest Rate Risk Rebecca Craigie
• DFC NZ — A Cautionary Tale of One Company’s Financial Failure Christie Smith
• Payment Instrument Demand – How Would You Like To Pay? Michael Wilkinson

Immigration, chaired by Dorian Owen

• Immigration Integration And Workplace Discrimination In New Zealand Bridget Daldy, Jacques Poot, Matthew Roskruge and Marietjie van Dyk
• Immigrant Integration And Social Capital Formation. Matthew Roskruge, Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot
• Does the SMC points system predict the labour market outcomes of skilled migrant? Juliette Grangier and Rob Hodgson

Costs to Society, chaired by Chris Schilling

• The Cost of Cost Studies Eric Crampton and Matt Burgess
• Cost Of Illness Studies. Why Do The Results Vary So Much? Des O’Dea
• The Value Of A ‘Preventable Fatality’. New Zealand And Elsewhere. John Wren

Market Behaviour, chaired by Jodi York

• Food Safety In The Poultry Industry: An Estimation Of The Health Benefits Gail Duncan
• Trading Efficiency in Water Quality Trading Markets: An Assessment of Trade-Offs. Hugh McDonald
• Price Discounting In New Zealand Andrew Coleman

 

Concurrent Session 5, Thursday 30 June 4.00am – 5.30pm

Health 1, chaired by Des O’Dea

• Accounting For Quality In The Measurement Of New Zealand Hospital Output Nick Bowden and Jaikishan Desai
• The Economic Impact Of A Health Shock On Poor Households In Eastern India Jaikishan Desai and Rhonda Sarnoff
• A Panel Data Comparison Of Two Commonly-Used Health-Related Quality Of Life Instruments Zachery Gerring and Jaikishan Desai

Climate and Emissions, chaired by Ross Cullen

• Modelling New Zealand Agricultural Climate Policy Adam Daigneault, Dr. Suzie Greenhalgh, Robyn Sinclair and Oshadhi Samarasinghe
• The Economics Of International Policy To Reduce Emissions From Deforestation And Degradation Suzi Kerr, Charlotte Streck, Arthur van Benthem
• Business Responses To The Introduction Of The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: 2010 Baseline Elisabeth Numan-Parsons

Labour 2, chaired by David Mare

• Recent Changes In Labour Market Outcomes For Youth Vij Kooyela
• No Country For Old Men: A Note On The Trans-Tasman Income Divide Hugh McDonald
• The Short Run Effects Of Age Based Youth Minimum Wages In Australia: A Regression Discontinuity Approach Alex Olssen

Education 1, chaired by Stephen Hickson

• Effects Of Age At Entry To Year 1 On Later School Outcomes Trinh Le
• Productivity Change In Australasian Universities 1997-2005: A Malmquist Analysis Warren Smart
• Egalitarian Versus Elite: A Higher-Education Policy Comparison Of Education Regime Types James Graham

Internationalistion of NZ Firms, chaired by Gus Charteris

• Intra-Industry Productivity Spillovers From Exporting in New Zealand Menaka Saravanaperumal, Gus Charteris andKris Iyer
• Getting Out There: Overseas Direct Investment And Exporting In New Zealand Firms Philip Stevens
• An Updated Look at New Zealand’s Comparative Advantage Shirley Nesbit (this paper, presented as a work in progress, is made available in its final version)

QSBO, chaired by Bill Kaye-Blake

• A Brief History of the QSBO James Allen and Peter O’Connor
• QSBO as a Forecasting Tool Qing Yang
• Predictive Ability of Sector-level QSBO Data Lulu Zeng

Development, Trade and Politics, chaired by Les Oxley

• Determinants Of Poverty In Fiji Neelesh Gounder
• Mercantilist Reasoning in Economic Policy Making Keith Rankin
• Systematically Biased Beliefs about Political Influence Eric Crampton, Bryan Caplan, Wayne A. Grove and Ilya Somin

Concurrent Session 6, Friday 1 July 11.00am – 12.30pm

Health 2, chaired by John Yeabsley

• Pre and Post Natal Drivers of Childhood Intelligence: Evidence from Singapore Mary Hedges, Gail Pacheco, Chris Schilling, and Susan Morton
• Background And Epidemiology Of Life Course Modelling Susan Morton
• Using Microsimulation Modelling For Analysis Of Early Life Health Interventions Chris Schilling, Peter O’Connor and Chris Nixon

Location and Water Management, chaired by Viv Hall

• Preferences, Location Choice And The Residential Composition Of Cities Andrew Coleman and David Mare
• Patterns Of Business Location In Auckland David Mare and Andrew Coleman
• Sharing A River: A Bilateral Mekong River Basin Management Kim Hang Pham Do

Education 2, chaired by Stephen Agnew

• The Labour Market Returns To Further Education For Working Adults Sarah Crichton and Sylvia Dixon
• Skills Used On The Job: How Well Do Employees’ Literacy And Numeracy Skills Match Their Job Tasks? David Earle
• Are Private Providers More Productive Than Public Providers Of International Education? Evidence From New Zealand Dayal Talukder

The Size of Government in New Zealand, chaired by John Creedy

• Government And Economic Growth: Does Size Matter? Diana Cook, Carsten Schousboe and David Law
• The Wisdom Of Ageing: Lessons From Fiscal Projections Matthew Bell
• Calculating Average Marginal Tax Rates For New Zealand, 1893-2009 (loaded after conference) Fiona McAlister, Jeremy Couchman and Gordon Liao

Labour and Capital, chaired by Bob Reed

• To Make Or Buy (Skills): An Analysis Of Training Decisions Using Microdata Jason Timmins, Geoff Mason, Penny Mok, Peter Nunns and Philip Stevens
• Working Harder Or Hardly Working? Adjusting Productivity Statistics For Capacity Utilisation Nicholas Warmke & Toby Hunter, Adam Tipper

A Star Studded Finale, chaired by Stephen Knowles

• A Coordination-Failure Model of Demand Management in Electricity Markets Seamus Hogan
• The Effect Of Domestic Violence Policy On Dowry Violence: A Theoretical Analysis Susmita Roy
• Forecasting New Zealand’s Labour Market with Multiple Datasets Kirdan Lees