The Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) system introduced to the New Zealand tertiary sector in 2003 will reallocate some public funding to universities from a student enrolments basis to criteria partially based on the past research output performance of the universities. This paper uses the...

This paper uses a modification of the Wallis and North (1986) method to generate estimates of the size of the transaction sector in New Zealand from 1956 to 1996, encompassing the pre-1984 period of unusually stringent (by OECD standards) restrictions and controls on the extent of market...

The proposed cartel between Air New Zealand was rejected by the NZ Commerce Commission, supported on appeal by the High Court. The case was an important and interesting application of the Net Public Benefit test in competition policy, under which the assessed costs or detriments of a determined...

Phil Briggs, Looking at the numbers: A view of New Zealand's economic history, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, (Inc.), Research monograph 69, Wellington, (2003). pp. ix, 140. David Greasley, D. and Oxley, L., “Measuring New Zealand's GDP, 1856-1933: a cointegration-based...

Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz (London, Allen Lane; New York, W.W. Norton, 2002), xxii + 282 pp., ISBN 0 713 99664 1.

An ANZAC Dollar? Currency Union and Business Development, by Arthur Grimes and Frank Holmes with Roger Bowden, (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies), 2000. 133pp. ISBN 0-908935-47-1. Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth by Frank Barry (editor). MacMillan Press, London and St Martin's...

It has been found that, in Australia, the United States and Great Britain, about two-thirds of large personal fortunes originated in industries which economists would judge to be “competitive “, in the sense that entry and exit is easy so that marginal firms are not expected to earn...

Public Ownership and the Community, by Peter McKinlay, (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies), 1999. ISBN 0-908935-36-6. Five Years After: The New Zealand Labour Market and the Employment Contracts Act, by Tim Maloney, (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies), 1998, i-xiii +128pp.,ISBN...