ResearchArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Knowledge, belief and doubt : some contemporary problems and their solutions from the Nyāya perspective 
    Shaw, Jaysankar Lal (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relevance of Indian epistemology to Western philosophy. Hence I shall discuss: 1. How to suggest solutions to some unsolved problems of Western philosophy. 2. How to suggest ...
  • International studies in Taiwan today : a preliminary survey of the problems and prospects 
    Chan, Gerald (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    International relations, as an academic study, is relatively new. It is much more developed, discussed and documented in the West, especially the US, than in other places. Within Asia, reports about international relations ...
  • Approaching "Asia" from the southeast : does the crisis make a difference? 
    Reid, Anthony (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1998)
    Asian Studies Institute inaugural lecture.
  • Property Tax Delinquency - Social Contract in Crisis: The Case of Detroit 
    Alm, James; Hodge, Timothy R.; Sands, Gary; Skidmore, Mark (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    In this paper we develop a theoretical model of the individual decision to become delinquent on one’s property tax payments. We then apply the model to the City of Detroit, Michigan, USA, where the city is in the midst of ...
  • The crisis in North Korea - seeds of hope 
    Beal, Tim (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)
    In recent years the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK (North Korea) has suffered calamitous food shortages. A recent consolidated appeal by UN agencies and NGOs (nongovernmental organisations) called for US$376 ...
  • India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute 
    Ganguly, Rajat (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1998)
    The root cause of instability and hostility in South Asia stems from the unresolved nature of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. It has led to two major wars and several near misses in the past. Since the early ...
  • Wild bull fight / by F. Rahardi; translated by Stephen Epstein. 
    Epstein, Stephen J.; Rahardi, F. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)
    Translated short story
  • Thus ended my days of watching over the house / by Pak Wan-sô ; translated by Stephen Epstein. 
    Epstein, Stephen J.; Pak, Wan-sŏ (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1997)
    This first Paper consists of a translation of a short story by the Korean writer, Pak Wansô. Pak Wansô (1931), although little known in the West, is the most well known woman writer in Korea today.
  • Gender, Politics and the Household in the Short Stories of Pak Wan-sô 
    Epstein, Stephen J. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1998)
    Pak Wan-sô (1931), though little known in the West, is perhaps the most notable female author currently writing in South Korea. Her works have not only received prestigious literary awards but have topped bestseller lists ...
  • Using Surveys of Business Perceptions as a Guide to Growth-Enhancing Fiscal Reforms 
    Misch, Florian; Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This paper assesses the merits of using business perceptions of growth constraints as a guide to growth-enhancing fiscal policy reforms. Using endogenous growth models in which the government levies an income tax to provide ...
  • Measuring Revenue-Maximising Elasticities of Taxable Income: Evidence for the US Income Tax 
    Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    A recent review of empirical estimates of the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) concluded that ‘the US marginal top rate is far from the top of the Laffer curve’ (Saez et al, 2012, p.42). This paper provides a detailed ...
  • Complementarity in Models of Public Finance and Endogenous Growth 
    Misch, Florian; Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This paper considers the effects of complementarity in private production between private and public inputs on optimal fiscal policy under the objective of growth maximization. Using an endogenous growth model with public ...
  • Government Cloud Computing Strategies: Management of Information Risk and Impact on Concepts and Practices of Information Management 
    Bisley, Peter (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Research Problem The objective of this research is to investigate the extent to which the government cloud computing strategies of New Zealand, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland are ...
  • Natural disasters and firms in Vietnam 
    Vu, Tam Bang; Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This paper investigates the consequences of natural disasters on firms in Vietnam over the period 2000 to 2008. We examine the impacts of natural disasters on firm investment and retail sales. We find evidence of adverse ...
  • Where is the money? Post-disaster foreign aid flows 
    Becerra, Oscar; Cavallo, Eduardo; Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    We describe the flows of aid after large catastrophic natural disasters by using the extensive record of bilateral aid flows, by aid sector, available through the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee. For each large ...
  • Banking crises, sudden stops, and the effectiveness of short-term lending 
    Chang, Chia-Ying (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This paper sheds light on the linkages between banking crises and sudden stops and discusses the effectiveness of short-run lending in their prevention. It develops an overlapping generations framework and incorporates the ...
  • Capital controls, capital flows, and banking crises 
    Chang, Chia-Ying (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Capital controls have been adopted by emerging economies to change the volume and the composition of capital flows and to protect the economy from sudden stops. The effectiveness measured by empirical studies has remained ...
  • Poverty, inequality and natural disasters – A survey 
    Noy, Ilan; Karim, Azreen (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The last few years have seen an explosion of economic research on the consequences of natural disasters. This new interest is attributable first and foremost to a growing awareness of the potentially catastrophic nature ...
  • Sensitivity of cautious-relaxed investment policies to target variation 
    Foster, Jarred; Krawczyk, Jacek B (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This study builds on recent findings that target-based utility measures, used in the dynamic portfolio optimisation, deliver investment policies that can generate leftskewed payoff distributions. These policies can lead ...
  • Web Based Impact Measures for Institutional Repositories 
    Smith, Alastair G. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This study investigated webometric measures that could be used to evaluate the impact of institutional repositories, using Australasian university repositories as a case study. URL citation inlinks (occurrences of the ...

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