like New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Singapore and Hong Kong, have consistently performed better on these two indicators …

Zealand, Singapore, and Sweden). The case studies describe the institutional framework, its evolution, the use of …

Two distinguished New Zealanders pioneered some of the foundations of modern econometrics. Alec Aitken, one of the most … linear regression, generalized least squares (GLS) estimation, algorithms for Hodrick Prescott (HP) style data smoothing (six … decades before their use in economics), and statistical estimation theory leading to the Cramér Rao bound. Rex Bergstrom …