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Acknowledgements
Thank you to William Greene, Dean Hyslop, Jacques Poot, Jim Rose, Richard Downing, Philip Liu, members of Treasury’s Applied Econometrics Group, and our colleagues in the Policy Coordination and Development Section for their contributions to this paper. This paper has also benefited from comments received in seminars given at Canterbury and Otago Universities, The New Zealand Association of Economists conference, The New Zealand Econometrics Study Group and the Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society.
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Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Trends in migration and trade
- 3 Mechanisms through which migration could stimulate trade
- 4 Evidence on the activities of migrants in New Zealand
- 5 Previous econometric tests of the effects of migration on trade
- 6 Methodology
- 6.4 Differences in the characteristics of goods and countries
- 6.5 Changes in elasticity with the size of the migration stock
- 6.6 Migrant stocks and tourism
- 6.7 Additional robustness testing
- 6.8 Variables
- 7 Results
- 7.1 Benchmark results (continued)
- 7.2 Extensions
- 7.2 Extensions (continued)
- 8 Discussion
- References
- Appendix – Supplementary data and estimation results
- Appendix (continued)
- Appendix (continued)
- Appendix (continued)