Crisis takes readers from the overheated markets of 2007, through the collapse of investment banks and stressful times for numerous economies in 2008 and 2009, and on to a fragile recovery in New Zealand and the world since 2010. This updated edition also reveals how New Zealand grappled with...

This volume is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of economic ideas, a fight between central...

We look at how large international datasets can improve forecasts of national activity. We use the case of New Zealand, an archetypal small open economy. We apply data-richʺ factor and shrinkage methods to tackle the problem of efficiently handling hundreds of predictor data series from many...