Discussion Papers (2012 - 2006)
This series contains work in progress at the School of Economics and Finance, Massey University. The current series contains papers primarily from the economics discipline. 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.
Select Series: 2013 - 2006 | 2005 - 2002 | 2001 - 1998 | 1997 - 1993
2013 |
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| 13.02 | A COMPARISON OF SUSTAINABILITY INDICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CAPITAL APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT, NON-MONETARY SUSTAINABILITY INDICES, AND LIFE SATISFACTION: MIXED MESSAGES FROM OECD COUNTRIES (HANS-JÜRGEN ENGELBRECHT) | 1302.pdf |
| 13.01 | REVISITING THE FIRST TEN YEARS: ASSESSING THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WELLINGTON’S WESTPAC STADIUM (Sam Richardson) | 1301.pdf |
2012 |
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| 12.04 | TOWARDS A GENERAL MODEL OF THE INNOVATION - SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING NEXUS (HANS-JÜRGEN ENGELBRECHT) | dp1204.pdf |
| 12.03 | ESTIMATING THE VALUE OF PROVINCIAL RUGBY IN NEW ZEALAND: THE CASE OF WANGANUI (Sam Richardson) | dp1203.pdf |
| 12.02 | JUSTIFICATION FOR GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN THE HOSTING OF SPORTS EVENTS: DO PROJECTED IMPACTS MATERALISE? (Sam Richardson) | dp1202.pdf |
| 12.01 | BUILD THE STADIUM -CREATE JOBS AND BOOST INCOMES? THE REALISED ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SPORTS FACILITIES IN NEW ZEALAND (Sam Richardson) | dp1201.pdf |
2011 |
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| 11.10 | WINDFARMS AND RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY VALUES (Iona McCarthy & Hatice Ozer Balli) | DP1110.pdf |
| 11.09 | ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS AND ECONOMICS PART II: POLITICS (HIGH AND LOW) (James E. Alvey) | DP1109.pdf |
| 11.08 | ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS AND ECONOMICS PART I: ETHICS (James E. Alvey) | DP1108.pdf |
| 11.07 | MACROECONOMICS SHOCK ADJUSTMENT TO SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES: A STRUCTURAL VAR MODEL OF THE NEW ZEALAND ECONOMY (Shamim Shakur & Richard Manning) | DP1107.pdf |
| 11.06 | ETHICS AND ECONOMICS, TODAY AND IN THE PAST (James E. Alvey) | DP1106.pdf |
| 11.05 | THE ASSIGNMENT-EXAMINATION RELATIONSHIP AND THE PROBABILISTIC PERFORMANCE OF INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS STUDENTS: 2000-2011 (James Obben) | DP1105.pdf |
| 11.04 | CAN ISSUE LINKAGE HELP MITIGATE EXTERNALITIES AND ENHANCE COOPERATION? (Kim Hang Pham Do, Ariel Dinar, Daene McKinney) | DP1104.pdf |
| 11.03 | SAVING THE MEKONG RIVER BASIN (Harold Houba, Kim Hang Pham Do, Xueqin Zhu) | DP1103.pdf |
| 11.02 | HE LONG MARCH OF CHINA AND INDIA TO PROSPERITY: THE PROGRESS SO FAR AND SOME CONSTRAINTS (Srikanta Chatterjee) | DP1102.pdf |
| 11.01 | PLATO PART III: OVERALL COMMENTS ON PLATO’S ETHICS AND ECONOMICS (James E. Alvey) | DP1101.pdf |
2010 |
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| 10.14 | PLATO PART II: THE 'LATE' DIALOGUES (WITH A FOCUS ON THE LAWS) (James E. Alvey) | DP1014.pdf |
| 10.13 | THE POLITICS OF TAX: New Zealand 1844-45 (Kevin Heagney) | DP1013.pdf |
| 10.12 | NEW ZEALAND'S FISCAL INHERITANCE: An Assessment of the Development of Direct Taxation in the Mother Country Part IV: 1801-1850 (Kevin Heagney) | DP1012.pdf |
| 10.11 | AUSTRALASIAN TAXATION SCHEDULE E: A Precursor of New Zealand's Institutional Framework? (Kevin Heagney) | DP1011.pdf |
| 10.10 | NEW ZEALAND'S FISCAL INHERITANCE: An Assessment of the Development of Direct Taxation in the Mother Country Part III: 1801-1850 (Kevin Heagney) | DP1010.pdf |
| 10.09 | NEW ZEALAND'S FISCAL INHERITANCE: An Assessment of the Development of Direct Taxation in the Mother Country Part II: 1701-1800 (Kevin Heagney) | DP1009.pdf |
| 10.08 | NEW ZEALAND'S FISCAL INHERITANCE: An Assessment of the Development of Direct Taxation in the Mother Country Part I: 1600-99 (Kevin Heagney) | DP1008.pdf |
| 10.07 | TAX LAW NEW ZEALAND 1844 - 1845: The Property Rate, the Property Rate Amendment and The Dealers' Licensing Ordinance (Kevin Heagney) | DP1007.pdf |
| 10.06 | PLATO PART 1: THE 'EARLY' AND 'MIDDLE' DIALOGUES (James E. Alvey) | DP1006.pdf |
| 10.05 | Natural Capital and Live Satisfaction Across Countries: A Different Perspective on Natural Capital Abundance and Dependence | DP1005.pdf |
| 10.04 | Ethics and Economics in Socrates and Xenophon (James Alvey) | DP1004.pdf |
| 10.03 | Knowledge-Based Economies and Subjective Well-Being (Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht) | DP1003.pdf |
| 10.02 | The Context of Ancient Greek Ethics and Economics (James Alvey) | DP1002.pdf |
| 10.01 | Some Economic Dimensions Of Higher Education Within And Beyond National Frontiers (Srikanta Chatterjee) | DP1001.pdf |
2009 |
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| 09.09 | The Dynamic Relationship Between The State Pension Scheme And Household Saving In New Zealand (James Obben) | DP0909.pdf |
| 09.08 | Modelling Tax Policy Development Governor Fitzroy’s Tax Reform 1844-45 (Kevin Heagney) | DP0908.pdf |
| 09.07 | The Conflicting Revenue and Expenditure Record of Crown Colony New Zealand 1840-1852 (Kevin Heagney) | DP0907.pdf |
| 09.06 | James M. Buchanans Parable: A Conjectural History of Private Property and a Perplexing Argument for Limits on the Market (James E. Alvey) | DP0906.pdf |
| 09.05 | Buchanan on Culture: Victorian Budgetary Ethics and Puritan Ethics (James E. Alvey) | DP0905.pdf |
| 09.04 | The Foundations of James Buchanans Work: Exchange and Gains from Trade in all Aspects of Life, including Markets and Politics (James E. Alvey) | DP0904.pdf |
| 09.03 | Natural Capital, Subjective Well-Being, and the New Welfare Economics of Sustainability: Some Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions (Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht) | DP0903.pdf |
| 09.02 | India's Evolving Food Economy and Trade Prospects for Australia and New Zealand | DP0902.pdf |
| 09.01 | Theory, Consistency and Rhetoric (Stuart Birks) | DP0901.pdf |
2008 |
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| 08.04 | Average Subjective Well-Being and the Wealth of Nations: Some Insights Derived From the World Banks Millennium Capital Assessment (Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht) | dp08-04.pdf |
| 08.03 | Anatomy of the Recent Growth and Transformation of the Economies of China and India (Srikanta Chatterjee) | dp08-03.pdf |
| 08.02 | Chinas Agriculture, Smallholders and Trade: Driven by the Livestock Revolution? (Allan N. Rae) | dp08-02.pdf |
| 08.01 | Empirical Analysis of the Official Cash Rate and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in New Zealand (James Obben) | dp08-01.pdf |
2007 |
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| 07.06 | Personal Refl ections on the Life and Writings of Milton Friedman (1912-2006) (James E. Alvey) | dp07-06.pdf |
| 07.05 | Food Consumption and Calorie Intake in Contemporary India (Srikanta Chatterjee, Allan Rae & Ranjan Ray) | dp07-05.pdf |
| 07.04 | Ethical Foundations of Adam Smith's Political Economy, August 2007 (James E. Alvey) | dp07-04.pdf |
| 07.03 | On the Over-Sizing Problem of Dickey-Fuller-Type Tests With GARCH Errors, June 2007 (Jen-Je Su) | dp07-03.pdf |
| 07.02 | Economic Volatility, Economic Vulnerability and Foreign Aid: Empirical Results for the South Pacific Island Nations, May 2007 (Rukmani Gounder & Shrabani Saha) | dp07-02.pdf |
| 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) | dp07-01.pdf |
2006 |
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| 06.12 | Socio-Economic Development Policies: Livelihood Strategies and Poverty Reduction in Fiji, November 2006 (Rukmani Gounder) | dp06-12.pdf |
| 06.11 | Free Riding Problems and Feasible Allocations for Regional Fishery Management Organizations, November 2006 (Kim Hang Pham Do and Henk Folmer) | dp06-11.pdf |
| 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) | dp06-10.pdf |
| 06.09 | Corruption, extortion, reputation, and asymmetric information, August 2006 (Neil Campbell) | dp06-09.pdf |
| 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) | dp06-08.pdf |
| 06.07 | Does central bank independence really offer a ‘free lunch’ to countries? April 2006 (James Obben) | dp06-07.pdf |
| 06.06 | The ‘new view’ of Adam Smith and the development of his views over time, April 2006 (James E. Alvey) | dp06-06.pdf |
| 06.05 | Analysis of the aid, fiscal response and growth relationship in Ghana: a cointegrating var approach, March 2006 (James Obben & Vilaphonh Xayavong) | dp06-05.pdf |
| 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) | dp06-04.pdf |
| 06.03 | Spurious regressions between stationary series: some further investigations, February 2006 (Jen-Je Su) | dp06-03.pdf |
| 06.02 | The use of subsample values for estimating a general statistic from integrated time series, February 2006 (Jen-Je Su) | dp06-02.pdf |
| 06.01 | Happiness and economic production through 'social sharing' in the Internet age: some results from seti@home*, January 2006 ( Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht) | dp06-01.pdf |
