This paper concerns the relationship between the assessment of the research of individual academics by peer or expert review teams with a variety of bibliometric schemes based on journal quality weights. Specifically, for a common group of economists from New Zealand departments of economics the...

This paper considers the research productivity of New Zealand based economics departments from 2000 to 2006. It examines journal based research output across departments and individuals using six output measures. We show that the faculty at Otago and Canterbury as of April 2007 performed...

Colander (2000) suggests that students often fail to recognise the passion and excitement of economics because of the way that we teach economic stories. In his view, using formal models at the principles level to analyse macro stories makes the stories boring. We suggest that some models,...

Economics for Policy: Expanding the Boundaries. Essays by Peter Gorringe. Edited by Arthur Grimes, Alan Jones, Roger Procter and Grant Scobie, Wellington, Institute of Policy Studies, 2001 265pp, ISBN: 0-908935-53-6

Taking New Zealand Seriously: the Economics of Decency, by Tim Hazledine, Harper-Collins (Auckland) 1998, 237pp. ISBN 1 86950 283 3 The Role Of Government In East Asian Economic Development, Masahiko Aoki, Hyung-Ki Kim and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (eds) (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997), 448pp....

Many countries try to protect their poor during structural adjustment. Targeting is needed to prevent benefits leaking to the non-poor but screening for direct transfers may be too costly for developing countries. One solution is indirect targeting, based on the characteristics of the poor....

Immigrants are typically found to have less wealth and hold it in different forms than the native born. These differences may affect both the economic assimilation of immigrants and overall portfolio allocation when immigrants are a large share of the population, as in New Zealand. In this...

Bairam (1996, 1997) reports rankings of seven New Zealand university economics departments in terms of their publications in certain refereed journals for the 1988-95 period. These rankings may not be reliable because a correction for the different page sizes of various journals was applied to...

The extent to which people are saving for retirement is a key element in formulating public policy toward saving and retirement incomes. This paper adopts a life cycle model of wealth accumulation to estimate the saving rates that people would need in order to have an adequate income in...

This paper presents a cohort analysis of household income, consumption and saving in New Zealand. It is based on an analysis of unit record data from March years 1984 to 1998 taken from the Household Economic Survey (HES). These data are a series of cross-sectional surveys rather than a true...