A - Z by Title
Index to Research & Policy Publications

Page updated 2 Sep 2013

Working Papers, Policy Perspectives Papers and Treasury Papers listed by title.

A

• Adaptive Governance and Evolving Solutions to Natural Resource Conflicts (WP 07/03)
• Adult Equivalence Scales, Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand (WP 04/21)
• Adult literacy and economic growth (WP 04/24)
• Affordability of Housing: Concepts, Measurement and Evidence (WP 06/03)
• The Ageing of the New Zealand Population, 1881-2051 (WP 03/27)
• Allocating Vote: Health - 'Needs Assessment' and an Economics-Based Approach (WP 00/04)
• Alternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons (WP 13/11)
• An Analysis of a Cash Flow Tax for Small Business (WP 02/27)
• An Analysis of Benefit Flows in New Zealand Using a Social Accounting Framework (WP 13/01)
• An Analysis of Tax Revenue Forecast Errors (WP 07/02)
• An Application of Portfolio Theory to New Zealand's Public Sector (WP 98/04)
• Asymmetric Information, Financial Intermediation and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: A Critical Review (WP 03/19)
• Automatic Fiscal Stabilisers: Implications for New Zealand (WP 01/10)
• Automatic Fiscal Stablilisers (WP 99/07)
• Average Marginal Income Tax Rates for New Zealand, 1907-2009 (WP 12/04)

B

• Brain Drain or Brain Exchange? (WP 01/22)
• Budget Management That Counts: Recent Approaches to Budget and Fiscal Management in New Zealand (WP 01/24)
• The Built-in Flexibility of Income and Consumption Taxes in New Zealand (WP 03/05)

C

• Calm After the Storm? Supply-side Contributions to New Zealand's GDP Volatility Decline (WP 01/33)
• Can Population Projections be Used for Sensitivity Tests on Policy Models? (WP 03/07)
• Capital Shallowness: A Problem for New Zealand? (WP 05/05)
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reductions in New Zealand: A Minimum Disruption Approach (WP 04/25)
• Carbon Taxation, Prices and Household Welfare in New Zealand (WP 04/23)
• A Case Study in Devolution: The Problem of Preserving Kiwi Habitat in the Far North (WP 98/07a)
• Central Government Guidance and the Resource Management Act (PP 05/02)
• The Challenge of Structural Change in APEC Economies (WP 07/06)
• Challenges and Choices: Modelling New Zealand's Long-term Fiscal Position (WP 10/01)
• The Changes in New Zealand's Income Distribution (WP 00/13)
• Changes in New Zealand's Production Structure: An Input Output Analysis (WP 03/01)
• The Changing Gender Distribution of Paid and Unpaid Work in New Zealand (WP 05/07)
• China's Recent Growth and Its Impact on the New Zealand Economy (WP 13/15)
• A Comparison of the NZTM and FPS Models of the NZ Economy (WP 03/25)
• Competition Policy in Small Distant Open Economies: Some Lessons from the Economics Literature (WP 03/31)
• Conserving Biodiversity - Institutions, Policies and Incentives (WP 00/26)
• Consumption Externalities and the Role of Government: The Case of Alcohol (WP 02/25)
• Contemporary Microeconomic Foundations for the Structure and Management of the Public Sector (WP 12/01)
• The Context for Maori Economic Development - A Background Paper for the 2005 Hui Tuamata
• The Contribution of Foreign Borrowing to the New Zealand Economy (WP 08/03)
• The Contribution of the Primary Sector to New Zealand's Economic Growth (PP 05/04)
• The Contributions from Firm Entry, Exit and Continuation to Labour Productivity Growth in New Zealand (WP 05/01)
• The Cost of Ill Health (WP 10/04)
• Costs and Benefits of Producer Board Deregulation (WP 99/04)
• Coughing Up for Bovine Tb Control (WP 00/24)
• Crown Financial Asset Management: Objectives and Practice (WP 01/12)

D

• Demographic Change and New Zealand's Economic Growth (WP 03/04)
• Deprivation in New Zealand: Regional Patterns and Changes (WP 01/09)
• The Design of a Possible Low-Level Carbon Charge for New Zealand: A Working Paper (WP 97/02)
• Determining the Discount Rate for Government Projects (WP 02/21)
• Devolution and the New Zealand Resource Management Act (WP 98/07)
• Discrete Hours Labour Supply Modelling: Specification, Estimation and Simulation (WP 03/20)
• The Distributional Impact of Population Ageing (WP 13/13)
• Does Benefit Receipt Affect Future Income? An Econometric Explanation (WP 00/14)
• Does Consumer Confidence Forecast Consumption Expenditure in New Zealand? (WP 03/22)
• Does Crown Financial Portfolio Composition Matter? (WP 01/34)
• Does Quality Matter in Labour Input? The Changing Pattern of Labour Composition in New Zealand (WP 08/01)
• A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model of the New Zealand Economy (WP 02/07)

E

• An Econometric Analysis of a Production Function for New Zealand (WP 01/31)
• Economic Explanations of Earnings Distribution Trends in the International Literature and Application to New Zealand (WP 00/16)
• Economic Geography - Key Concepts (WP 00/12)
• Economic Geography and Spatial Statistics: Theory and Empirics of New Zealand Regions (WP 00/11)
• Economic Imbalances: New Zealand's Structural Challenge (WP 11/03)
• Economic Integration and Monetary Union (WP 99/06)
• Economic Integration, Sovereignty and Identity: New Zealand in the Global Economy (WP 00/22)
• Economic Regulation of Network Industries (WP 00/05)
• The Economics of Education: Vouchers and Peer Group Effects (WP 98/05)
• The Economics of Knowledge: What Makes Ideas Special for Economic Growth? (PP 05/05)
• The Economics of Population Ageing (WP 02/05)
• Economy-Wide Impacts of Industry Policy (WP 12/05)
• Education and Maori Relative Income Levels Over Time: The Mediating Effect of Occupation, Industry, Hours of Work and Locality (WP 02/17)
• The effect of New Zealand Superannuation eligibility age on the labour force participation of older people (WP 05/09)
• Effective Tax Rates on Capital in New Zealand - Changes 1972-1998 (WP 99/12)
• The Effects of Class Size on the Long-Run Growth in Reading Abilities and Early Adult Outcomes in the Christchurch Health and Development Study (WP 01/14)
• The Effects of Fiscal Policy in New Zealand: Evidence from a VAR Model with Debt Constraints (WP 13/02)
• The Effects on New Zealand Households of an Increase in the Petrol Excise Tax (WP 04/01)
• The Elasticity of Taxable Income in New Zealand (WP 12/03)
• Electricity Demand-Side Management
• Electricity Generation: Competition, Market Power and Investment (PP 06/04)
• Empirical evidence on growth spillovers from China to New Zealand (WP 13/17)
• An Empirical Investigation of Fiscal Policy in New Zealand (WP 06/08)
• Encouraging Private Biodiversity - Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation on Private Land (WP 00/25)
• Encouraging Quality Regulation: Theories and Tools (WP 03/24)
• Enterprise and Productivity: Harnessing Competitive Forces (TPRP 08/04)
• Environmental Risk Management in New Zealand - Is There Scope to Apply a More Generic Framework? (PP 06/06)
• Equity and Efficiency Measures of Tax-Transfer Systems: Some Evidence for New Zealand (WP 08/04)
• Estimating a New Zealand NAIRU (WP 04/10)
• Estimating New Zealand's Output Gap Using a Small Macro Model (WP 13/18)
• Estimating New Zealand's Structural Budget Balance (WP 10/08)
• Estimating the Costs of Crime in New Zealand in 2003/04 (WP 06/04)
• Ethnicity and Early Labour Market Experiences in the Christchurch Health and Development Study (WP 02/06)
• The Excess Burden of Taxation and Why it (Approximately) Quadruples When the Tax Rate Doubles (WP 03/29)
• Export performance, invoice currency, and heterogeneous exchange rate pass-through (WP 13/03)

F

• Facts About Economic Integration: How Integrated is New Zealand with the Rest of the World? (WP 00/21)
• Final Regression Results on the Cognitive Achievement of Children in the Christchurch Health and Development Study with Corrections for Attrition from this Longitudinal Study (WP 00/06)
• Financial Systems and Economic Growth: An Evaluation Framework for Policy (WP 04/17)
• Financing Infrastructure Projects: Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) (PP 06/02)
• Financing New Zealand Superannuation (WP 01/20)
• Finland and New Zealand: A Cross-Country Comparison of Economic Performance (WP 00/01)
• Firm Dynamics in New Zealand: A Comparative Analysis with OECD Countries (WP 04/11)
• Fiscal Institutions in New Zealand and the Question of a Spending Cap (WP 10/07)
• Fiscal Policy, Growth and Convergence in Europe (WP 03/14)
• Foreign Acquisition and the Performance of New Zealand Firms (WP 11/06)
• Funding Recreational Opportunity Provision on the New Zealand Conservation Estate (PP 06/07)

G

• Geography and the Inclusive Economy: A Regional Perspective (WP 01/17)
• Geography, Trade and Growth Problems and Possibilities for the New Zealand Economy (WP 03/03)
• Geometric Return and Portfolio Analysis (WP 03/28)
• Global Connectedness and Bilateral Economic Linkages - Which Countries? (WP 04/09)
• "Go West, Young Man, Go West!"? (WP 01/07)
• Governance of Crown Financial Assets (WP 98/02)
• Government and economic growth: Does size matter? (TP11/01)
• Greenhouse Gas Stabilisation: Principles to Guide the Formulation of Possible Targets and Policies and Measures (WP 96/01)
• Greening the WTO's Disputes Settlement Understanding: Opportunities and Risks (WP 01/28)
• Growing Pains: New Zealand Qualitative Evidence on Hurdles to Exporting Growth (WP 02/10)
• Growth and Volatility Regime Switching Models for New Zealand GDP Data (WP 02/08)

H

• Health and Labour Force Participation (WP 10/03)
• Health and Retirement of Older New Zealanders (WP 12/02)
• Health and Wealth (WP10/05)
• Healthy, Wealthy and Wise? A Review of the Wider Benefits of Education (WP 04/04)
• Healthy, Wealthy and Working: Retirement Decisions of Older New Zealanders (WP 10/02)
• Household Debt in New Zealand (WP 09/03)
• Household Incomes in New Zealand: The impact of the Market, Taxes and Government Spending, 1987/88–1997/98 (WP 04/20)
• Household Net Wealth: An International Comparison (WP 01/19)
• Household Saving Behaviour in New Zealand: A Cohort Analysis (WP 01/18)
• Household Saving Behaviour in New Zealand: Why do Cohorts Behave Differently? (WP 03/32)
• Household Savings: A Survey of Recent Microeconomic Theory and Evidence (WP 98/08)
• Housing Affordability in New Zealand: Evidence from Household Surveys (WP 13/14)
• Housing in the Household Portfolio and Implications for Retirement Saving: Some Initial Finding from SOFIE (WP 07/04)
• Housing: An Analysis of Ownership and Investment Based on the Household Savings Survey (WP 06/07)
• How Many Jobs? A Leading Indicator Model of New Zealand Employment (WP 02/13)
• Human Capital and the Inclusive Economy (WP 01/16)
• Human Capital Policies and The Distribution of Income: A Framework for Analysis and Literature Review (WP 01/03)

I

• The Impact of Monetary Policy on New Zealand Business Cycles and Inflation Variability (WP 03/09)
• The Impact of Workplace and Personal Superannuation Schemes on Net Worth: Evidence from the Household Savings Survey (WP 04/08)
• Impacts of a Potential Influenza Pandemic on New Zealand's Macroeconomy (PP 06/03)
• Improving the Management of the Crown's Exposure to Risk (WP 09/06)
• Income and Occupational Intergenerational Mobility in New Zealand (WP 10/06)
• Income Growth and Earnings Variations in New Zealand, 1998-2004 (WP 05/11)
• Income Tax Revenue Elasticities with Endogenous Labour Supply (WP 02/22)
• Indicators of Fiscal Impulse for New Zealand (WP 02/30)
• Innovation and Productivity: Using Bright Ideas to Work Smarter (TPRP 08/05)
• Institutions and Decision Making for Sustainable Development (WP 02/20)
• Institutions, Firms and Economic Growth (WP 04/19)
• Institutions, Social Norms and Well-being (WP 02/12)
• An Integrated Approach to Government Financial Policy (WP 99/08)
• Inter Industry Linkages in New Zealand (WP 02/09)
• Intergenerational Smoothing of New Zealand's Future Fiscal Costs (WP 13/12)
• Internal Mobility in New Zealand (WP 01/04)
• International Comparative Surveys of Regulatory Impact (PP 06/05)
• International Connections and Productivity: Making Globalisation Work for New Zealand (TPRP 09/01)
• An Introduction to the New Zealand Treasury Model (WP 09/02)
• Investigating Health Technology Diffusion in New Zealand - How Does it Spread and Who Stands to Gain? (WP 06/05)
• Investing in Well-being: An Analytical Framework (WP 02/23)
• Investment, Productivity and the Cost of Capital: Understanding New Zealand's "Capital Shallowness" (TPRP 08/03)
• Investor Protection and the New Zealand Stock Market (PP 07/02)
• The Irish Economy: Lessons for New Zealand? (WP 98/01)

K

• KiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the Impact on Retirement Saving (WP 11/04)
• Knowledge, Capabilities and Human Capital Formation in Economic Growth (WP 01/13)

L

• Labour Force Participation and GDP in New Zealand (WP 04/07)
• Labour Supply Incentives in Alternative Tax and Transfer Schemes: A Diagrammatic Introduction (WP 03/08)
• Language Revitalisation Policy: An Analytical Survey Theoretical Framework, Policy Experience and Application to Te Reo Maori (WP 98/06)
• The Living Standards, Incomes and Accommodation Costs of Older New Zealanders Revisited (WP 05/03)
• Long-term Fiscal Projections and their Relationship with the Intertemporal Budget Constraint: An Application to New Zealand (WP 02/04)
• Low Wage Jobs and Pathways to Better Outcomes (WP 02/29)

M

• Management of Key Purchaser Risks in Devolved Purchase Arrangements in Health Care (WP 00/17)
• "Managing for Outcomes" in the New Zealand Public Management System (WP 04/15)
• Manual for the Long Term Fiscal Model (WP 00/02)
• The Market Equity Risk Premium
• Measurement of Public Sector Output and Productivity (PP 06/09)
• Measures of Human Capital: A Review of the Literature (WP 05/10)
• Measuring Economic Growth in New Zealand (WP 02/14)
• Measuring New Zealand's Productivity (WP 99/05)
• Measuring Productivity using the Index Number Approach: An Introduction (WP 04/05)
• Measuring Saving Rates in New Zealand: An Update (WP 13/04)
• Migration and Economic Growth: A 21st Century Perspective (WP 06/02)
• Modelling New Zealand Consumption Expenditure Over the 1990s (WP 02/19)
• Modelling New Zealand's Long-term Fiscal Position (PP 06/01)
• Modelling Regional Labour Market Adjustment in New Zealand (WP 02/01)
• Modelling Shocks to New Zealand's Fiscal Position (WP 11/02)
• Modelling the Effect of Population Ageing on Government Social Expenditures (WP 03/15)
• Multi-Product Exporters and Product Turnover Behaviour of New Zealand Exporters (WP 09/01)

N

• New Zealand Economic Growth: An Analysis of Performance and Policy
• New Zealand Financial Markets, Saving and Investment (PP 07/01)
• New Zealand Fiscal Management Approach - An Explanation of Recent Changes
• New Zealand Households and the 2008/09 Recession (WP 13/05)
• New Zealand Labour Supply from 1991-2001: An Analysis Based on a Discrete Choice Structural Utility Model (WP 03/23)
• New Zealand's Diaspora and Overseas-born Population (WP 04/13)
• New Zealand's Production Structure: An International Comparison (WP 03/16)
• New Zealand's Social Assistance System: Financial Incentives to Work (WP 03/18)
• New Zealand's Current Account Deficit: Analysis Based on the Intertemporal Optimisation Approach (WP 01/02)
• New Zealand's Economic Growth (WP 00/09)
• New Zealand's Exchange Rate Cycles: Evidence and Drivers (WP 10/10)
• New Zealand's Exchange Rate Cycles: Impacts and Policy (WP 11/01)
• New Zealand's Family Assistance Tax Credits: Evolution and Operation (WP 02/16)
• New Zealand's Fiscal Policy Framework: Experience and Evolution (WP 01/25)
• New Zealand's Productivity Performance (TPRP 08/02)
• New Zealand's Venture Capital Market (WP 00/19)

O

• Objectives, Targets and Instruments for Crown Financial Policy (WP 03/21)
• Outcomes Focussed Management in New Zealand - A Background Paper (WP 01/05)
• The Outlook for China's Growth and its Impact on New Zealand Exports (WP 13/16)

P

• Parameter Uncertainty and the Fiscal Multiplier (WP 13/19)
• Past, Present and Future Developments in New Zealand's Terms of Trade (WP 06/09)
• Policy Perspectives Papers Series [Electronic Resource]
• Population Ageing and Government Health Expenditure (PP 05/01)
• Population Ageing and Government Health Expenditures in New Zealand, 1951-2051 (WP 04/14)
• Population Ageing and Social Expenditure in New Zealand: Stochastic Projections (WP 02/28)
• Population Ageing and the Efficiency of Fiscal Policy in New Zealand (WP 02/11)
• Population Ageing and the Growth of Income and Consumption Tax Revenue (WP 13/09)
• Population Ageing in New Zealand - Implications for Living Standards and the Optimal Rate of Saving (WP 03/10)
• Population Ageing in New Zealand: The Impact on Living Standards and the Optimal Rate of Saving with a Flexible Real Exchange Rate (WP 03/34)
• Population Ageing, Productivity and Policies: A survey with implications for New Zealand (WP 13/21)
• Poverty, Income Inequality and Health (WP 01/29)
• A Preliminary Analysis of the Dynamics of Individual Market and Disposable Incomes (WP 00/15)
• Pricing in Wholesale Electricity Markets (PP 05/03)
• Principles for Royalties on Non-Mineral Natural Resources in New Zealand (PP 06/08)
• Private and Public Returns to Investments in Secondary and Higher Education in New Zealand Over Time: 1981-1996 (WP 99/02)
• Private returns to tertiary education - How does New Zealand compare? (WP 13/10)
• The Privatisation of New Zealand Rail (WP 99/10)
• Productivity in New Zealand 1988-2002 (WP 03/06)
• Productivity Measurement: Alternative Approaches and Estimates (WP 03/12)
• Productivity, Capital-Intensity and Labour Quality at Sector Level in New Zealand and the UK (WP 07/01)
• Property Rights and Environmental Policy: A New Zealand Perspective (WP 03/02)
• Proposals in Support of the Development of a Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) (WP 97/01)
• Protection Against Government Takings: Compensation for Regulation? (WP 02/18)
• Publicly Financed Education in an Endogenous Growth Model (WP 02/24)
• Putting Productivity First (TPRP 08/01)

Q

• Qualifications, Employment and the Value of Human Capital, 1986-2001 (WP 03/35)

R

• Reducing Maori and Pacific Inequalities (WP 01/30)
• Regional Economic Performance in New Zealand: How Does Auckland Compare? (WP 05/08)
• Regional Labour market Adjustment and the Movements of People: A Review (WP 01/08)
• Regional Price Convergence in Australia and New Zealand, 1984-1996 (WP 98/03)
• Regression Estimates of the Elasticity of Taxable Income and the Choice of Instrument (WP 13/08)
• Regulatory Harmonisation - Issues for New Zealand (WP 01/01)
• Regulatory Issues in Biosecurity (WP 01/23)
• The Requirements for Long-Run Fiscal Sustainability (WP 13/20)
• Returns to Scale, Technical Progress and Total Factor Productivity Growth in New Zealand Industries (WP 05/04)
• Review of Evidence on Broad Outcome of Public Sector Management Regime (WP 01/06)
• A Review of Options for Health and Disability Support Purchasing in New Zealand (WP 00/20)
• Reweighting the New Zealand Household Economic Survey for Tax Microsimulation Modelling (WP 03/33)
• The Risks and Opportunities from Globalisation (WP 07/05)
• The Role of R&D in Productivity Growth: The Case of Agriculture in New Zealand: 1927 to 2001 (WP 06/01)
• Roles of Fiscal Policy in New Zealand (WP 08/02)

S

• Saving and Growth in an Open Economy (WP 01/32)
• Saving for Retirement: New Evidence for New Zealand (WP 04/12)
• Saving in New Zealand - Issues and Options
• Saving in New Zealand: Measurement and Trends (WP 02/02)
• Saving Rates and Portfolio Allocation in New Zealand (WP 99/09)
• Saving Rates of New Zealanders: A Net Wealth Approach (WP 09/04)
• School Leaving, Labour Supply and Tertiary Education Choices of Young Adults: An Economic Analysis Utilising the 1977-1995 Christchurch Health and Development Surveys (WP 00/03)
• Secondary and Tertiary Educational Attainment and Income Levels for Maori and Non-Maori Over Time (WP 00/18)
• Securitisation: A Public Policy Tool? (WP 00/08)
• A Simple Model of Housing Rental and Ownership with Policy Simulations (WP 09/05)
• Social Expenditure in New Zealand: Stochastic Projections (WP 13/06)
• Sovereign Net Worth: An Analytical Framework (WP 99/03)
• Spending through the Tax System: Tax Expenditures (PP 09/01)
• Striking a Balance: Centralised and Decentralised Decisions in Government (WP 02/15)
• A Structural VAR Approach to Estimating Budget Balance Targets (WP 01/11)
• A Structural VAR Model of the New Zealand Business Cycle (WP 02/26)
• The Structure and Dynamics of Schools and Business: Do they face similar issues? (WP 99/11)
• Subsidiarity: Implications for New Zealand (WP 02/03)
• Survey Reweighting for Tax Microsimulation Modelling (WP 03/17)
• Sustainable Development: Environment and Economic Framework Integration (WP 01/27)

T

• Tax Policy with Uncertain Future Costs: Some Simple Models (WP 13/07)
• Tax Rates and Revenue Changes: Behavioural and Structural Factors (WP 11/05)
• Tax Smoothing and Expenditure Creep (WP 98/09)
• Taxation, Reranking and Equivalence Scales (WP 03/11)
• Taxes vs. Permits: Options for Price-Based Climate Change Regulation (WP 05/02)
• A Theoretical Framework for Operational Risk Management and Opportunity Realisation (WP 00/10)
• Theories of the Family and Policy (WP 04/02)
• Theory vs Reality: Making Environmental Use Rights Work in New Zealand (WP 04/06)
• Three Policy Options for Crown Financial Policy (WP 03/30)
• Three Steps Towards More Effective Development Assistance (WP 01/26)
• Toward a Model of Firm Productivity Dynamics (WP 06/11)
• Towards a Practical Cash-Flow Tax (WP 99/01)
• Towards an Inclusive Economy (WP 01/15)
• Trade and Migration to New Zealand (WP 04/18)
• Treasury's Forecasting Performance: A Head-to-Head Comparison (WP 06/10)

U

• Understanding Changes in the Distribution of Household Incomes in New Zealand between 1983-86 and 1995-98 (WP 01/21)
• Understanding the Growth in Welfare Benefit Receipt in Britain: A Review of the Evidence (WP 00/23)
• Use of Targets to Improve Health System Performance: English NHS Experience and Implications for New Zealand (WP 06/06)

W

• Wage and Employment Rates in New Zealand from 1991 to 2001 (WP 03/13)
• Why are Real Interest Rates in New Zealand so High? Evidence and Drivers (WP 10/09)
• Why Welfare Caseloads Fluctuate: A Review of Research on AFDC, SSI, and the Food Stamps Program (WP 00/07)
• Women's Participation in the Labour Force (WP 05/06)
• Women's Retirement Incomes in New Zealand: A Household Bargaining Approach (WP 04/22)
• Work and Family Balance: An Economic View (WP 03/26)
• Working Papers Series [Electronic Resource]
• Working Smarter: Driving Productivity Growth Through Skills (TPRP 08/06)
• Working Towards Higher Living Standards for New Zealanders (TP11/02)
• Workplace Skills, Technology Adoption and Firm Productivity: A Review (WP 04/16)

Y

• Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market (WP 04/03)