ResearchArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Hostile borders on historical landscapes : the placeless place of Andamanese culture 
    Pandya, Vishvajit (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)
    This paper is an analysis of meanings attributed to contacts between Jarwas and non-Jarwas in the Andaman Islands. Unlike other Andaman tribal groups, the Jarwas are confined to a government-designated area of 765 square ...
  • The Microeconomics of Television Markets 
    Hurren, Konrad (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    I consider the literature surrounding the television market. Two important issues in the literature are: the market's two-sided nature, and bundling of channels. I discuss how an asymmetric pricing structure arises in ...
  • Revenue-Maximising Tax Rates in Personal Income Taxation in the Presence of Consumption Taxes: A note 
    Sanz-Sanz, José Félix (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This note computes revenue-maximising tax rates in personal income taxes in the presence of consumption taxes. It finds that the traditional Laffer analysis, which neglects the effects of marginal tax rates on consumption, ...
  • Understanding the Asian Crisis: Recommendations for Policy 
    Victorio, Antong (Andres G.) (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1998)
    The 1997 Asian crisis is described in order to show a plausible chain of causes and events that led to the eventual collapse of many Asian currencies. Empirical evidence is presented based upon the experiences of five ...
  • The diasporic imaginary and the Indian diaspora 
    Mishra, Vijay (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)
    “All diasporas are unhappy, but every diaspora is unhappy in its own way” (Mishra 1996: 189). Diasporas refer to people who do not feel comfortable with their non-hyphenated identities as indicated on their passports. ...
  • Bollywood Cinema: A Critical Genealogy 
    Mishra, Vijay (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    “Bollywood” has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: “a name for the Indian popular film industry, based in Bombay. Origin 1970s. Blend of Bombay and Hollywood.” The incorporation ...
  • A legacy of Lancashire: its chemists, biochemists and industrialists 
    Halton, Brian (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Preface Although he probably does not remember it, it was Roy Jackson of Monash University in Melbourne and from Bacup in Lancashire who asked me if I was aware of the number of chemists coming from our mutual county. ...
  • Taxation and the User Cost of Capital : An Introduction 
    Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The aim of this paper is to provide an introduction to the concept of user cost and its determinants. Particular attention is given to the influence of taxation. The concept of user cost relates to the rental, the rate of ...
  • A Note on Computing the Gini Inequality Measure with Weighted Data 
    Creedy, John (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This note sets out some basic results regarding calculation of the Gini measure and its standard error in the context of cross-sectional micro-datasets where sample weights are provided for aggregation from sample to ...
  • Natural disasters and climate change in the Pacific island countries: New non-monetary measurements of impacts 
    Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    We tabulate and measure the burden of disasters on the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) by aggregating and comparing the data found in the two global datasets on disaster impacts. We show that the most commonly used dataset ...
  • Precautionary strategies and household savings 
    Aizenman, Joshua; Cavallo, Eduardo; Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Why do people save? A strand of the literature has emphasized the role of ‘precautionary’ motives; i.e., private agents save in order to mitigate unexpected future income shocks. An implication is that in countries faced ...
  • The long-run socio-economic consequences of a large disaster: The 1995 earthquake in Kobe 
    du Pont IV, William; Okuyama, Yoko; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    We quantify the ‘permanent’ socio-economic impacts of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 by employing a large-scale panel data set of 1,719 wards from Japan over three decades. In order to overcome a fundamental ...
  • The (mis) allocation of public spending in a low income country: Evidence from disaster risk reduction spending in Bangladesh 
    Karim, Azreen; Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Rational allocation of limited public resources is critical to achieve the stated aims of government programmes. Here, we focus on the regional allocation of public spending for disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh as a ...
  • A non-monetary global measure of the direct impact of natural disasters 
    Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The standard way in which disaster damages are measured involves examining separately the number of fatalities, of injuries, of people otherwise affected, and the financial damage that natural disasters cause. Here, we ...
  • Comparing the direct human impact of natural disasters for two (surprisingly similar) cases — the Christchurch earthquake and Bangkok flood of 2011 
    Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The standard way in which disaster damages are measured involves examining separately the number of fatalities, of injuries, of people otherwise affected, and the financial damage that natural disasters cause. Here, we ...
  • Commuting and Residential Decisions in the Greater Wellington Region 
    Daglish, Toby; de Roiste, Mairead; Sağlam, Yiğit; Law, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This paper studies residential, commuting and car ownership decisions in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand. We establish an estimation methodology that is robust to endogeneity between house prices and residential ...
  • Consumer Governance in Electricity Markets 
    Daglish, Toby (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This paper examines switching decisions by households in the MainPower distribution area of New Zealand. The paper measures the extent to which customers switched in response to information about directors’ bonuses, marketing ...
  • Determining Optimal Macroprudential Instruments 
    Winkler, Kay (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Central banks and governments around the world are currently facing challenging economic and monetary issues from the aftermath of the 2007 credit crisis. Eight years after the start of the recession, the global economy ...
  • Electricity Market Operation: Transitioning from a Free Market to a Single Buyer structure: An econometric analysis of the Brazilian case using a Two-State Markov Switching Model 
    Daglish, Toby; de Braganca, Gabriel; Owen, Sally; Romano, Teresa (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    We examine electricity market reform in Brazil: from the 1990s till 2004 the largely hydro-powered market cleared using a market mechanism, and in March 2004 reformed to a single buyer structure. We model day-ahead returns ...
  • Translog Cost Function Estimation: Banking Efficiency 
    Daglish, Toby; Robertson, Oliver; Tripe, David; Weill, Laurent (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This paper examines the selection of data source and econometric technique for studies of banking efficiency using translog cost functions. We examine the use of Seemingly Unrelated Regression estimation for a cost function, ...

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