Research papers listed by JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) classification number.
A small number of papers do not appear in this finding aid as they do not have JEL classifications assigned.
D00 - Microeconomics: General
Institutions, Firms and Economic Growth (WP 04/19)
Working paper
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Competition in New Zealand: highlights from the latest data - Research note 2019/03
Productivity Commission research paperProductivity by the numbers: 2019 - Research paper 2019/02
Productivity Commission research paper
D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics
D10 - Household Behavior: General
D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory
D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
D14 - Household Saving; Personal Finance
D18 - Consumer Protection
D19 - Household Behavior and Family Economics: Other
Healthy, Wealthy and Working: Retirement Decisions of Older New Zealanders (WP 10/02)
Working paperHousehold Saving Behaviour in New Zealand: A Cohort Analysis (WP 01/18)
Working paperPopulation Ageing in New Zealand: The Impact on Living Standards and the Optimal Rate of Saving with a Flexible Real Exchange Rate (WP 03/34)
Working paperTheories of the Family and Policy (WP 04/02)
Working paper
D2 - Production and Organizations
Getting under the hood - Insights from Recent Firm-level Productivity Research in New Zealand
Productivity Commission research paper
D20 - Production and Organizations: General
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
Export performance, invoice currency, and heterogeneous exchange rate pass-through (WP 13/03)
Working paperFirm Dynamics in New Zealand: A Comparative Analysis with OECD Countries (WP 04/11)
Working paperForeign Acquisition and the Performance of New Zealand Firms (WP 11/06)
Working paperGrowing Pains: New Zealand Qualitative Evidence on Hurdles to Exporting Growth (WP 02/10)
Working paperMulti-Product Exporters and Product Turnover Behaviour of New Zealand Exporters (WP 09/01)
Working paperThe Contributions from Firm Entry, Exit and Continuation to Labour Productivity Growth in New Zealand (WP 05/01)
Working paperToward a Model of Firm Productivity Dynamics (WP 06/11)
Working paperWork and Family Balance: An Economic View (WP 03/26)
Working paperWorkplace Skills, Technology Adoption and Firm Productivity: A Review (WP 04/16)
Working paper
D22 - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Born in bad times: Economic conditions, selection and employment (PCWP 2024/01)
Productivity Commission working paperDo New Zealand firms catch up to the domestic productivity frontier? (PCWP 2015/03)
Productivity Commission working paperEstimating firm-level effective tax rates and the user cost of capital in New Zealand [Revised version published 26 Nov 2014] (WP 13/29)
Working paperExchange Rate Fluctuations and the Margins of Exports (WP 15/08)
Working paperThe impact of tax changes on the short-run investment behaviour of New Zealand firms (WP 15/05)
Working paper
D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
D24 - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Do New Zealand firms catch up to the domestic productivity frontier? (PCWP 2015/03)
Productivity Commission working paperFirm Productivity Growth and the Knowledge of New Workers (WP 22/01)
Working paperInvestigating New Zealand-Australia productivity differences: New comparisons at industry level (PCWP 2013/02)
Productivity Commission working paperMeasuring Productivity using the Index Number Approach: An Introduction (WP 04/05)
Working paperMigration and firm-level productivity (PCWP 2022/01)
Productivity Commission working paperNew Zealand's productivity growth: Component and industry decompositions - Research note 2015/02
Productivity Commission research paperNew Zealand's Venture Capital Market (WP 00/19)
Working paperProductivity by the numbers: The New Zealand experience - Research paper 2013/01
Productivity Commission research paperQuality adjusting sector-level data on New Zealand schools (PCWP 2017/02)
Productivity Commission working paperReturns to Scale, Technical Progress and Total Factor Productivity Growth in New Zealand Industries (WP 05/04)
Working paperTrade over distance for New Zealand firms: measurement and implications (PCWP 2014/05)
Productivity Commission working paperWorkplace Skills, Technology Adoption and Firm Productivity: A Review (WP 04/16)
Working paper
D29 - Production and Organizations: Other
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Adult Equivalence Scales, Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand (WP 04/21)
Working paperAlternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons (WP 13/11)
Working paperDistribution Explorer
Modelling and data toolEstimating the Distribution of Wealth in New Zealand (WP 23/01)
Working paperExploring trends in income inequality in New Zealand (2007–2023) (AN 24/10)
Analytical noteFiscal incidence and income inequality by age: Results for New Zealand in tax year 2018/19 (AN 24/09)
Analytical noteFiscal incidence in New Zealand: The effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes in tax year 2018/19 (AN 24/01)
Analytical noteHealth and Wealth (WP10/05)
Working paperHealthy, Wealthy and Working: Retirement Decisions of Older New Zealanders (WP 10/02)
Working paperHousehold Debt in New Zealand (WP 09/03)
Working paperHousehold Incomes in New Zealand: The impact of the Market, Taxes and Government Spending, 1987/88-1997/98 (WP 04/20)
Working paperHousing in the Household Portfolio and Implications for Retirement Saving: Some Initial Finding from SOFIE (WP 07/04)
Working paperIncome Mobility in New Zealand: A Descriptive Analysis (WP 14/15)
Working paperInsights from New Zealand child poverty data (AN 22/04)
Analytical noteIntergenerational Smoothing of New Zealand's Future Fiscal Costs (WP 13/12)
Working paperInterpreting inequality measures and changes in inequality (WP 14/20)
Working paperPoverty, Income Inequality and Health (WP 01/29)
Working paperSaving for Retirement: New Evidence for New Zealand (WP 04/12)
Working paperSaving Rates of New Zealanders: A Net Wealth Approach (WP 09/04)
Working paperTax and Transfer Progressivity in New Zealand: Part 2 Results (AN 23/03)
Analytical noteTax and Transfer Progressivity in New Zealand: Part 1 Methodology (AN 23/02)
Analytical noteThe Changes in New Zealand's Income Distribution (WP 00/13)
Working paperThe Wealth Ladder: House Prices and Wealth Inequality in New Zealand (AN 21/01)
Analytical noteTrends in the household income distribution: 2007-2021 (AN 23/01)
Analytical noteUnderstanding Changes in the Distribution of Household Incomes in New Zealand between 1983-86 and 1995-98 (WP 01/21)
Working paperWomen's Retirement Incomes in New Zealand: A Household Bargaining Approach (WP 04/22)
Working paper
D4 - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
Competition in New Zealand: highlights from the latest data - Research note 2019/03
Productivity Commission research paperThe Impact of Sentencing on Adult Offenders' Future Employment and Re-offending - Community Work Versus Fines (WP 15/04)
Working paper
D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
D57 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: Input-Output Tables and Analysis
D58 - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
Economy-Wide Impacts of Industry Policy (WP 12/05)
Working paper
D6 - Welfare Economics
D60 - Welfare Economics: General
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Adult Equivalence Scales, Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand (WP 04/21)
Working paperAlternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons (WP 13/11)
Working paperExploring trends in income inequality in New Zealand (2007–2023) (AN 24/10)
Analytical noteIncome Mobility in New Zealand: A Descriptive Analysis (WP 14/15)
Working paperInsights from New Zealand child poverty data (AN 22/04)
Analytical noteInterpreting inequality measures and changes in inequality (WP 14/20)
Working paperPoverty, Income Inequality and Health (WP 01/29)
Working paperTaxation, Reranking and Equivalence Scales (WP 03/11)
Working paperThe Effects on New Zealand Households of an Increase in the Petrol Excise Tax (WP 04/01)
Working paperThe Marginal Welfare Cost of Personal Income Taxation in New Zealand (WP 17/01)
Working paperThe Role of Value Judgements in Measuring Inequality (WP 14/13)
Working paperThe Wealth Ladder: House Prices and Wealth Inequality in New Zealand (AN 21/01)
Analytical noteTrends in the household income distribution: 2007-2021 (AN 23/01)
Analytical note
D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
Institutions, Social Norms and Well-being (WP 02/12)
Working paper
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
D84 - Expectations; Speculations
Geometric Return and Portfolio Analysis (WP 03/28)
Working paper
D9 - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
D90 - Intertemporal Choice: General
D91 - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
Housing in the Household Portfolio and Implications for Retirement Saving: Some Initial Finding from SOFIE (WP 07/04)
Working paperIntergenerational Developments in Household Saving Behaviour (WP 14/23)
Working paperKiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the Impact on Retirement Saving (WP 11/04)
Working paperKiwiSaver: Comparing Survey and Administrative Data (WP 14/06)
Working paperModelling New Zealand Consumption Expenditure over the 1990s (WP 02/19)
Working paperRetirement Income Policy and National Savings (WP 13/28)
Working paperSaving Rates of New Zealanders: A Net Wealth Approach (WP 09/04)
Working paperThe Effect of Public Pension Eligibility Age on Household Saving: Evidence from a New Zealand Natural Experiment (WP 14/21)
Working paper