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WOULD ADOPTING THE US DOLLAR HAVE LED TO IMPROVED INFLATION, OUTPUT AND TRADE BALANCES FOR NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1990s?

Hall, Viv; Huang, Angela - EconWPA - 2004

Deterministic simulations with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s core FPS model show how New Zealand’s broad macroeconomic environment might have evolved over the 1990s, if a US nominal yield curve and US TWI exchange rate movements under a common currency arrangement had been...

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New Zealand: A Typical Australasian Economy?

Grimes, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

We examine trend economic developments in New Zealand and in each of Australia’s six states and two territories (i …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076558

Evaluation of the Mutual Recognition Schemes

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

In January 2003, the Government asked the Commission to undertake a study into the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) and Trans-Tasm an Mutual Recognition Arrangement (TTMRA).

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A calibrated structural model of the Czech economy

Hlédik, Tibor - EconWPA - 2004

The paper presents a structural model framework for a small open economy. The model, based on optimising households and firms, has been calibrated on Czech macroeconomic data in order to develop an analytic framework suitable for analysing key policy questions related to the Czech Republic’s...

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Currency Boards and Productivity Growth

Canavese, Alfredo - EconWPA - 2004

The paper studies the ways an economy working under a currency board could adjust when capital inflows stop suddenly. Six alternative solutions to restore the economic equilibrium are available when the sudden stop comes: a recession could push the prices of non-tradable goods down, a...

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Policy to Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests

Kerr, Suzi; Brunton, Emma; Chapman, Ralph - EconWPA - 2005

Carbon sequestration in plantation forests provides the main means by which New Zealand will meet its international climate change obligations in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008–2012). However, without active policy, forests are unlikely to contribute as much in...

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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade

Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003

This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has … regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading partners. The modelling work shows that, under current market conditions …, the introduction of GM technology into the non-wheat grains and oilseeds sectors will have minimum impact on Australia …

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Rules of Origin under the Australia–New Zealand CER Trade Agreement

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were … report recommended that the CER rules of origin, which confine access to trade concessions to goods produced in Australia or …

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Economic Growth and the Size and Structure of Government: Implications for New Zealand

Grimes, Dr. Arthur - EconWPA - 2003

The work of Gwartney, Holcombe and Lawson (GHL, 1998) is cited in New Zealand debate to demonstrate that a larger government share of GDP is detrimental for economic growth. Their work is reassessed here. We find a number of omissions in their analysis lead to a considerable over- statement of...

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Regional business cycles in New Zealand:Do they exist? What might drive them?

Hall, Viv B; McDermott, C. John - EconWPA - 2005

We use National Bank of New Zealand Regional Economic Activity data, to identify and characterise classical business cycle turning points, for New Zealand’s 14 regions and aggregate New Zealand activity. Using Concordance statistic measures, logistic model and GMM estimation methods,...

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