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Discussion Papers

This series contains work in progress at the Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University.  Comments and criticism are invited. Quotations may be made on explicit permission of the author(s). For enquiries please contact Mrs Sue Edwards at S.Edwards@massey.ac.nz. Click on the files on the third column to download a copy of the paper in Acrobat format.

Note: Those papers that have subsequently been revised and published are not downloadable, but where available, the publication reference is made available.

CLICK HERE FOR THE ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS DISCUSSION PAPERS

LIST OF DISCUSSION PAPERS:

09.07

The Conflicting Revenue and Expenditure Record of Crown Colony New Zealand 1840-1852 (Kevin Heagney)

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09.06

James M. Buchanan’s Parable: A Conjectural History of Private Property and a Perplexing Argument for Limits on the Market (James E. Alvey)

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09.05

Buchanan on Culture: Victorian Budgetary Ethics and ‘Puritan Ethics’ (James E. Alvey)

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09.04

The Foundations of James Buchanan’s Work: Exchange and Gains from Trade in all Aspects of Life, including Markets and Politics (James E. Alvey)

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09.03

Natural Capital, Subjective Well-Being, and the New Welfare Economics of Sustainability: Some Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions (Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht)

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09.02

India's Evolving Food Economy and Trade Prospects for Australia and New Zealand

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09.01

Theory, Consistency and Rhetoric (Stuart Birks)

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08.04

Average Subjective Well-Being and the Wealth of Nations: Some Insights Derived From the World Bank’s Millennium Capital Assessment (Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht)

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08.03

Anatomy of the Recent Growth and Transformation of the Economies of China and India (Srikanta Chatterjee)

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08.02

China’s Agriculture, Smallholders and Trade: Driven by the Livestock Revolution? (Allan N. Rae)

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08.01

Empirical Analysis of the Official Cash Rate and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in New Zealand (James Obben)

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07.06

Personal Refl ections on the Life and Writings of Milton Friedman (1912-2006) (James E. Alvey)

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07.05

Food Consumption and Calorie Intake in Contemporary India (Srikanta Chatterjee, Allan Rae & Ranjan Ray)

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07.04

Ethical Foundations of Adam Smith's Political Economy, August 2007 (James E. Alvey)

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07.03

On the Over-Sizing Problem of Dickey-Fuller-Type Tests With GARCH Errors, June 2007 (Jen-Je Su)

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07.02

Economic Volatility, Economic Vulnerability and Foreign Aid: Empirical Results for the South Pacific Island Nations, May 2007 (Rukmani Gounder & Shrabani Saha)

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07.01

Impacts of Exchange Rate Movements on Share Prices of Individual Firms in the New Zealand Headline Index: Exploration with the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model, February 2007 (James Obben)

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06.12

Socio-Economic Development Policies: Livelihood Strategies and Poverty Reduction in Fiji, November 2006 (Rukmani Gounder)

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06.11

Free Riding Problems and Feasible Allocations for Regional Fishery Management Organizations, November 2006 (Kim Hang Pham Do and Henk Folmer)

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06.10

Fishery Management Games: How to Reduce Efforts and Admittance of New Members, November 2006 (Kim Hang Pham Do, Henk Folmer and Henk Norde)

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06.09

Corruption, extortion, reputation, and asymmetric information, August 2006 (Neil Campbell)

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06.08

Analysis of the relationship between the Share Market performance and exchange rates in New Zealand: A cointegrating var approach, July 2006 (James Obben, Andrew Pech & Shamim Shakur)

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06.07

Does central bank independence really offer a ‘free lunch’ to countries? April 2006 (James Obben)

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06.06

The ‘new view’ of Adam Smith and the development of his views over time, April 2006 (James E. Alvey)

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06.05

Analysis of the aid, fiscal response and growth relationship in Ghana: a cointegrating var approach, March 2006 (James Obben & Vilaphonh Xayavong)

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06.04

Food consumption, trade reforms and trade patterns in contemporary India: How do Australia and NZ fit in? March 2006 (Srikanta Chatterjee, Allan Rae & Ranjan Ray)

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06.03

Spurious regressions between stationary series: some further investigations, February 2006 (Jen-Je Su)

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06.02

The use of subsample values for estimating a general statistic from integrated time series, February 2006 (Jen-Je Su)

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06.01

Happiness and economic production through 'social sharing' in the Internet age: some results from seti@home*, January 2006 ( Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht)

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05.10

Trade reforms in South Asia, November 2005 (Shamim Shakur & Allan N Rae)

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05.09

Africa: A quantile regression approach, October 2005 (Rukmani Gounder & Vilaphonh Xayavong)

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05.08

To subsidise or not to subsidise: A game theory explanation for the subsidisation of sports events and facilities, September 2005 (Sam Richardson)

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05.07

Oasis or mirage? Assessing the impact of the Westpac stadium on the Wellington economy: An ex post analysis, September 2005 (Sam Richardson)

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05.06

Determinants of attendance and the value of consumption benefits for provincial rugby in New Zealand: The case of Wanganui 1972-1994, September 2005 (Sam Richardson)

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05.05

ICT and economic growth in New Zealand: Evidence from an extended growth accounting model, August 2005 (Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht & Vilaphonh Xayavong)

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05.04

Special and differential treatment in multilateral trade negotiations, April 2005 (Shamim Shakur, Allan Rae & Srikanta Chatterjee)

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05.03

Overcoming positivism in economics: Amartya Sen's project of infusing ethnics into economics, April 2005 (James E. Alvey)

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05.02

Dimensions of conflict and the role of foreign aid in Fiji, March 2005 (Rukmani Gounder)

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05.01

Theoretical analysis of foreign aid, policies and state institutions, January 2005 (Vilaphonh Xayavong, Rukmani Gounder & James Obben)

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04.11

The GATT/WTO has promoted trade, but only in capital-intensive commodities, November 2004 (Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht & Chris Pearce)

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04.10

A road ahead from Cancun? Weighing up some give-and-take scenarios in a DDA spirit, November 2004 (Shamim Shakur, Allan Rae & Srikanta Chatterjee)

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04.09

John Locke after 300 years, October 2004 ( James E. Alvey)

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04.08

A critical view of Lisa Hill's view of Adam Smith's 'hidden theology', September 2004 ( James E. Alvey)

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04.07

Stochastic frontier analysis of New Zealand's manufacturing industries: Some empirical results, July 2004 (Rukmani Gounder and Vilaphonh Xayavong)

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04.06

The role of teleology in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A belated reply to Kleer, July 2004 (James E. Alvey)

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04.05

Information and communication technology and New Zealand's productivity malaise: An industry-level study, June 2004 (Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht and Vilaphonh Xayavong)

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04.04

Tariffs, quotas and the corrupt purchasing of inappropriate technology, May 2004 (Neil A. Campbell) Subsequently published as 'Tariffs, quotas and the corrupt purchasing of inappropriate technology', International Journal of Business and Economics, Vol 4, No. 1, 2005, pp. 1-9

 

04.03

The "new, optimistic, theistic view" of Adam Smith and the problem of Smith's "pessimistic" views of history, March 2004 (James E. Alvey)

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04.02

The theological foundation of Adam Smith's work, January 2004 (James E. Alvey)

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04.01

Context and its relevance for Adam Smith's theological and teleological views, the foundation of his system of thought, January 2004 (James E. Alvey)

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03.07

Determinants of the funding volatility of Indonesian banks: A dynamic model, December 2003. (James Obben & Agus Eko Nugroho)

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03.06

Adam Smith's Globilization (But Anti-Secularization) Theory, October 2003. (James E. Alvey)

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03.05

Adam Smith's Pessimistic View of the Future of Commercial Society: Rhetoric or Reality? October 2003. (James E. Alvey)

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03.04

A Note on Spurious Regression in Panels with Cross-Section Dependence, May 2003. (Jen-Je Su)

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03.03

Maori and the Information Workforce 1991-2000, April 2003. (Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht and Anne Mahon)

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03.02

Adam Smith's View of History:  Consistent or Paradoxical?, March 2003.  (J. Alvey)

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03.01

Adam Smith's Optimistic, Telelogical View of History, February 2003.  (J. Alvey)

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