All Treasury Events

NZIER, Motu and Treasury Guest Lecture: Dr Martin Weitzman - The Economics of Climate Change - Why is it so Difficult and Controversial?

Economic analysis of what to do about climate change has sometimes been described as an economist’s nightmare. In this lecture, Dr Weitzman tries to explain why this particular application of cost-benefit analysis is more difficult than other, more ordinary, applications - and what it might mean.

Tue 6 Dec 2011, 1:30pm-3:30pm at Intercontinental Hotel, cnr Grey & Featherston St

Guest Lecture: Dr David Gruen - Wellbeing, Living Standards and Distribution

Dr Gruen will talk about the similarities and differences between the Australian Treasury's wellbeing framework and the New Zealand Treasury's living standards framework, and  the Australian Treasury's experience with a formal framework.  The talk will include a discussion of distributional issues in light of these frameworks.

Fri 9 Sep 2011, 1.30-3pm at Level 5, The Treasury, 1 The Terrace

Guest Lecture: Prof Peter Forsyth - Approaches to Project Evaluation: CBA vs CGE Modelling?

Prof Forsyth discussed the relationship between Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models for evaluating projects and policies.

Tue 6 Sep 2011, 11am-12.30pm at Level 5, The Treasury, 1 The Terrace

Treasury Seminar: Dr Weshah Razzak - Predicting Instability

Dr Weshah Razzak's seminar 'Predicting Instability' presented at the Treasury on 23 August 2011.

Tue 23 Aug, 1.30-3pm at Level 5, 1 The Terrace

Guest Lecture: Prof David Fielding - Fiscal Shocks to New Zealand's GDP: Explaining Some Puzzles

Prof David Fielding's lecture 'Fiscal Shocks to New Zealand's GDP: Explaining Some Puzzles' was presented at the Treasury on 2 August 2011.

Tue 2 Aug, 1.30-3pm at Level 5, 1 The Terrace

Guest Lecture: Dr Brian Easton - Five Great Stagnations of the NZ Economy

New Zealand's market economy has been through five great stagnations (or depressions or recessions; economists have used different expressions): the long depression from 1878 to 1895, the interwar recession (which may have started as early as 1908, and ended with the Great Depression of the 1930s), the post-war recession from 1944 to 1953, the wool price collapse which got back into a growth track in 1978 and the Rogernomics Recession from 1984 to 1994 (all datings tentative).

Tue 26 Jul, 1.30-3pm at Level 5, 1 The Terrace

Guest Lecture: Dr Bernard Cadogan - Lecture 3 of 3: The Subtle Science: The Hermeneutics of the Treaty of Waitangi

The Subtle Science is the discipline of interpretation. In this lecture Lord Cooke's "Living Treaty" doctrine is explained in interpretativist terms, teleological trends in Treaty and constitutional thinking are identified and condemned, along with the myth of New Zealand "pragmatism".

Thu 7 Jul, 1.30pm-3pm at The Treasury, Level 5, 1 The Terrace