Research and commentary (by SONZ classification)

Decentralisation

• A Case Study in Devolution: The Problem of Preserving Kiwi Habitat in the Far North (WP 98/07a)

  Working paper

• Striking a Balance: Centralised and Decentralised Decisions in Government (WP 02/15)

  Working paper

• Subsidiarity: Implications for New Zealand (WP 02/03)

  Working paper

Savings

• Why are Real Interest Rates in New Zealand so High? Evidence and Drivers (WP 10/09)

  Working paper

• Household Savings: A Survey of Recent Microeconomic Theory and Evidence (WP 98/08)

  Working paper

• KiwiSaver: Comparing Survey and Administrative Data (WP 14/06)

  Working paper

• Pensions, Savings and Housing: A life-cycle Framework with Policy Simulations (WP 14/14)

  Working paper

• Population Ageing in New Zealand - Implications for Living Standards and the Optimal Rate of Saving (WP 03/10)

  Working paper

• Saving in New Zealand: Measurement and Trends (WP 02/02)

  Working paper

• Options to Narrow New Zealand's Saving - Investment Imbalance (WP 14/17)

  Working paper

• Household Saving Behaviour in New Zealand: Why do Cohorts Behave Differently? (WP 03/32)

  Working paper

• Saving Rates and Portfolio Allocation in New Zealand (WP 99/09)

  Working paper

• 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)

  Working paper

• Economic Imbalances: New Zealand's Structural Challenge (WP 11/03)

  Working paper

• Saving for Retirement: New Evidence for New Zealand (WP 04/12)

  Working paper

• Measuring Saving Rates in New Zealand: An Update (WP 13/04)

  Working paper

• An Introduction to the New Zealand Treasury Model (WP 09/02)

  Working paper

• Economic Imbalances: New Zealand's Structural Challenge (WP 11/03)

  Working paper

• Saving and Growth in an Open Economy (WP 01/32)

  Working paper

• KiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the Impact on Retirement Saving (WP 11/04)

  Working paper

• KiwiSaver and the Accumulation of Net Wealth (WP 14/22)

  Working paper

• Intergenerational Developments in Household Saving Behaviour (WP 14/23)

  Working paper

• The Impact of Workplace and Personal Superannuation Schemes on Net Worth: Evidence from the Household Savings Survey (WP 04/08)

  Working paper

• Saving in New Zealand - Issues and Options

  Treasury paper

• Household Saving Behaviour in New Zealand: A Cohort Analysis (WP 01/18)

  Working paper

• Housing in the Household Portfolio and Implications for Retirement Saving: Some Initial Finding from SOFIE (WP 07/04)

  Working paper

• The Effect of Public Pension Eligibility Age on Household Saving: Evidence from a New Zealand Natural Experiment (WP 14/21)

  Working paper

• Review of the KiwiSaver Fund Manager Market Dynamics and Allocation of Assets

  Treasury paper

Trade

• Geography, Trade and Growth Problems and Possibilities for the New Zealand Economy (WP 03/03)

  Working paper

• The Outlook for China's Growth and its Impact on New Zealand Exports (WP 13/16)

  Working paper

• Examining the Elasticity of New Zealand's Current Account to the Real Exchange Rate (WP 14/12)

  Working paper

• Greening the WTO's Disputes Settlement Understanding: Opportunities and Risks (WP 01/28)

  Working paper

• Export performance, invoice currency, and heterogeneous exchange rate pass-through (WP 13/03)

  Working paper

• A Gravity Model of Barriers to Trade in New Zealand (WP 14/05)

  Working paper

• Global Connectedness and Bilateral Economic Linkages - Which Countries? (WP 04/09)

  Working paper

• Trade and Migration to New Zealand (WP 04/18)

  Working paper

• Decomposing New Zealand's Terms of Trade (WP 15/16)

  Working paper

• Past, Present and Future Developments in New Zealand's Terms of Trade (WP 06/09)

  Working paper

Child development

• 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)

  Working paper

• 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)

  Working paper

Disadvantaged

• Using Integrated Administrative Data to Identify Youth Who are at Risk of Poor Outcomes as Adults (AP 15/02)

  Analytical paper

• Deprivation in New Zealand: Regional Patterns and Changes (WP 01/09)

  Working paper

• Using Integrated Administrative Data to Understand Children at Risk of Poor Outcomes as Young Adults (AP 15/01)

  Analytical paper

• Geography and the Inclusive Economy: A Regional Perspective (WP 01/17)

  Working paper

• Research Using Administrative Data to Support the Work of the Expert Panel on Modernising Child, Youth and Family (AP 16/03)

  Analytical paper

Financial markets

• New Zealand Financial Markets, Saving and Investment (PP 07/01)

  Policy perspectives paper

• Investor Protection and the New Zealand Stock Market (PP 07/02)

  Policy perspectives paper

• Asymmetric Information, Financial Intermediation and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: A Critical Review (WP 03/19)

  Working paper

• Investor Protection and the New Zealand Stock Market (PP 07/02)

  Policy perspectives paper

• Financial Systems and Economic Growth: An Evaluation Framework for Policy (WP 04/17)

  Working paper

• Determinants of the New Zealand Yield Curve: Domestic vs. Foreign Influences (WP 14/19)

  Working paper

Agriculture

• The Role of R&D in Productivity Growth: The Case of Agriculture in New Zealand: 1927 to 2001 (WP 06/01)

  Working paper

Income

• The Employment and Income Effects of Eight Chronic and Acute Health Conditions (WP 15/15)

  Working paper

• Economic Explanations of Earnings Distribution Trends in the International Literature and Application to New Zealand (WP 00/16)

  Working paper

• Average Marginal Income Tax Rates for New Zealand, 1907-2009 (WP 12/04)

  Working paper

• A Preliminary Analysis of the Dynamics of Individual Market and Disposable Incomes (WP 00/15)

  Working paper

• Adult Equivalence Scales, Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand (WP 04/21)

  Working paper

• Does Benefit Receipt Affect Future Income? An Econometric Explanation (WP 00/14)

  Working paper

• The Distributional Impact of Population Ageing (WP 13/13)

  Working paper

• Women's Retirement Incomes in New Zealand: A Household Bargaining Approach (WP 04/22)

  Working paper

• Poverty, Income Inequality and Health (WP 01/29)

  Working paper

• The Changes in New Zealand's Income Distribution (WP 00/13)

  Working paper

• The Elasticity of Taxable Income in New Zealand (WP 12/03)

  Working paper

• Inequality in New Zealand 1983/84 to 2013/14 (WP 15/06)

  Working paper

• Income Growth and Earnings Variations in New Zealand, 1998-2004 (WP 05/11)

  Working paper

• Intergenerational Smoothing of New Zealand's Future Fiscal Costs (WP 13/12)

  Working paper

• Education and Māori Relative Income Levels Over Time: The Mediating Effect of Occupation, Industry, Hours of Work and Locality (WP 02/17)

  Working paper

• Alternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons (WP 13/11)

  Working paper

• Secondary and Tertiary Educational Attainment and Income Levels for Māori and Non-Māori Over Time (WP 00/18)

  Working paper

• Average Marginal Income Tax Rates for New Zealand, 1907-2009 (WP 12/04)

  Working paper

Public finance

• Crown Financial Asset Management: Objectives and Practice (WP 01/12)

  Working paper

• Objectives, Targets and Instruments for Crown Financial Policy (WP 03/21)

  Working paper

• Tales of Three Budgets: Changes in long-term fiscal projections through the GFC and beyond (WP 13/23)

  Working paper

• Three Policy Options for Crown Financial Policy (WP 03/30)

  Working paper

• An Integrated Approach to Government Financial Policy (WP 99/08)

  Working paper

• An Application of Portfolio Theory to New Zealand's Public Sector (WP 98/04)

  Working paper

• Contemporary Microeconomic Foundations for the Structure and Management of the Public Sector (WP 12/01)

  Working paper

• Contemporary Microeconomic Foundations for the Structure and Management of the Public Sector (WP 12/01)

  Working paper

Time series models

• A Structural VAR Model of the New Zealand Business Cycle (WP 02/26)

  Working paper

• Growth and Volatility Regime Switching Models for New Zealand GDP Data (WP 02/08)

  Working paper

• Estimating a New Zealand NAIRU (WP 04/10)

  Working paper

Economic integration

• Economic Integration, Sovereignty and Identity: New Zealand in the Global Economy (WP 00/22)

  Working paper

• Facts About Economic Integration: How Integrated is New Zealand with the Rest of the World? (WP 00/21)

  Working paper

• Global Connectedness and Bilateral Economic Linkages - Which Countries? (WP 04/09)

  Working paper

• Regional Price Convergence in Australia and New Zealand, 1984-1996 (WP 98/03)

  Working paper

• Economic Integration and Monetary Union (WP 99/06)

  Working paper

Superannuation

• Financing New Zealand Superannuation (WP 01/20)

  Working paper

• Measuring Saving Rates in New Zealand: An Update (WP 13/04)

  Working paper

• The effect of New Zealand Superannuation eligibility age on the labour force participation of older people (WP 05/09)

  Working paper

• The Impact of Workplace and Personal Superannuation Schemes on Net Worth: Evidence from the Household Savings Survey (WP 04/08)

  Working paper

• The Effect of Public Pension Eligibility Age on Household Saving: Evidence from a New Zealand Natural Experiment (WP 14/21)

  Working paper

• KiwiSaver: Comparing Survey and Administrative Data (WP 14/06)

  Working paper

Prices

• Regional Price Convergence in Australia and New Zealand, 1984-1996 (WP 98/03)

  Working paper

Labour force

• Earnings and employment in foreign-owned firms (WP 14/16)

  Working paper

• Migration and Economic Growth: A 21st Century Perspective (WP 06/02)

  Working paper

• New Zealand Labour Market Dynamics: Pre- and Post-global Financial Crisis (WP 14/03)

  Working paper

• Discrete Hours Labour Supply Modelling: Specification, Estimation and Simulation (WP 03/20)

  Working paper

• Income Tax Revenue Elasticities with Endogenous Labour Supply (WP 02/22)

  Working paper

• Taking on the West Island: How does New Zealand's labour productivity stack up? (TPRP 10/01)

  Productivity paper

• Health and Retirement of Older New Zealanders (WP 12/02)

  Working paper