ResearchArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Conceptual Framework Coherence: Why And How 
    Sutton, David (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This paper proposes a basis for progress in the development of a conceptual framework as a basis for regulating GPFR. The broad socio-economic environment is explored to determine the primary purpose of GPFR and its ...
  • Sectorneutral Accounting Standards: A Ten year Experiment 
    Baskerville, Rachel F; Bradbury, Michael E (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    In 1992, New Zealand adopted a sectorneutral approach to standard setting – where the difference in accounting treatment is driven by differences in the nature of transactions and not by ownership or the objectives of the ...
  • Situating IFRS translation in the EU within speed wobbles of convergence 
    Baskerville, Rachel F; Evans, Lisa (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    The objective of this study is to demonstrate the degree to which debate about translation in the EU, and translation specifically of IFRS in the EU, generates both: - Deeply held convictions about language; and - Diversity ...
  • Fire-Sale FDI? The impact of financial crises on foreign direct investment 
    Bogach, Olga; Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    In this paper, we analyze the evolution of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to developing and emerging countries around financial crises. We empirically and thoroughly examine the Fire‐Sale FDI hypothesis and describe ...
  • Natural disasters and economic policy for the Pacific Rim 
    Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    I employ a typology of disaster impacts that distinguishes between direct and indirect damages. Direct damages are the damage to fixed assets and capital (including inventories), damages to raw materials and extractable ...
  • What happened to Kobe? A reassessment of the impact of the 1995 earthquake in Japan 
    duPont IV, William; Noy, Ilan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The received wisdom is that the devastation wrought by the 1995 Kobe earthquake did not have any long‐term impact on the Japanese economy, nor much impact on Kobe itself. We re‐evaluate the evidence using a new methodology, ...
  • Job matching, family gap and fertility choice 
    Chang, Chia-Ying; Laing, Derek; Wang, Ping (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    This paper concentrates on the role of job matching frictions in influencing the interactions between fertility choice and wage offers and show that job market frictions are a crucial factor in wage differentials among ...
  • New entries and economic growth 
    Chang, Chia-Ying; Hansen, Vera (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The main goal of this paper is to construct a theoretical model that provides an explanation for the relationship between growth and new entry that is consistent with empirical evidence. The model is a four sector endogenous ...
  • Can a home country benefit from FDI? A theoretical analysis 
    Chang, Chia-Ying (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The effects of outward FDI on home country’s growth remain an open question. The growth of outward FDI has renewed this attention. By allowing for endogenous decisions of firms on both whether to conduct FDI and whether ...
  • The role of market frictions on the price differential: A search-theoretical approach 
    Chang, Chia-Ying (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    To shed light on how market frictions and the waiting time of imitators affect prices and how effective research subsidy and patent protection affect the price differential, this paper adopts a direct search-theoretical ...
  • Banking crises and sudden stops: What could IMF do to assist? 
    Chang, Chia-Ying (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Along the studies suggesting IMF to promote private capital flows, this paper sheds light on the links of banking crisis and sudden stops and provides suggestions which are flexible and more specific for countries in various ...
  • When banking systems meet currencies 
    Chang, Chia-Ying (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    In this paper, we examine the link of investment portfolio decisions of households and investment on international capital flows. I extend Bencivenga and Smith (1991)’s overlapping generation model to an open economy and ...
  • Personality, well-being and the marginal utility of income: What can we learn from random coefficient models? 
    Schurer, Stefanie; Yong, Jongsay (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Fixed effects models are the gold standard in empirical well-being research, however, their applicability is limited to controlling for intercept heterogeneity and identifying effects of time-varying variables. This paper ...
  • Impact of Formal Educational Qualifications on the Assessment by IS Managers of Their Own Effectiveness 
    Tungngern, Pratoomthip (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This study seeks to contribute to a better understanding of what role, if any, tertiary formal education contributes to the effectiveness of IS managers. The research question guiding this study is ‘How does the possession ...
  • Copyright Guidelines for Research Students: Second Edition 
    Millett, Tony (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Copyright is a form of intellectual property - which is a generic term for a range of property rights that provide protection for “creations of the mind”. Copyright does not, however, exist until a work is recorded, in ...
  • New Zealand information on the Internet: the Power to Find the Knowledge 
    Smith, Alastair G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    In a world of apparently ubiquitous information, does knowledge still equal power? Whatever the answer to this question, we will not have power unless we can retrieve our knowledge. Despite the advances of the last decades, ...
  • A note resolving the debate on “The weighted average cost of capital is not quite right” 
    Keef, Stephen P; Khaled, Mohammed S; Roush, Melvin L (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    Miller (2009a) derives a weighted average cost of capital for the special case where the cash flows to equity and the cashflows to debt are annuities. The paper attracts debate. We show that the weighted average cost of ...
  • Miller's (2009) WACC model: An extension 
    Keef, Stephen P; Khaled, Mohammed S; Roush, Melvin L (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    Miller (2009a) presents an analysis of the weighted average cost of capital WACC model. The paper attracts debate which uses a variety of repayment schedules to support the arguments raised. We present an extension of ...
  • The friday the thirteenth effect in stock prices: international evidence using panel data 
    Keef, Stephen P; Khaled, Mohammed S (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This examination of the Friday the 13th effect, in 62 international stock indices for the period 2000 to 2008, characterises the degree that the effect is influenced by: (i) the GDP of the economy and (ii) the sign of the ...
  • Tests for weak form market efficiency in stock prices: Monte Carlo evidence 
    Khaled, Mohammed S; Keef, Stephen P (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    Efficiency in financial markets is tested by applying variance ratio (VR)tests, but unit root tests are also used by many, sometimes in addition to the VR tests. There is a lack of clarity in the literature about the ...

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