New Zealand and Australia are highly interdependent in many ways. However, New Zealand is more reliant on Australia than Australia is on New Zealand. Given high economic relation, business-cycle transmission is expected ...

Conventional econometric models, such as discriminant analysis and logistic regression have been used to predict consumer choice. However, in recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying artificial neural ...

The Waterway Enhancement Programme was established by the Christchurch City Council as part of an ongoing commitment towards the sustainable management of tributary waterways throughout the city. Enhancement activities ...

Two years ago Asia’s tiger economies were celebrating the Asian miracle, operating in an environment of relatively low inflation with a stable but cautious monetary policy. However, the rising wave of growth has suddenly ...

The search for the real causes behind the Asian financial crisis is turning up a lengthy list of suspects. In trying to comprehend the magnitude and contagion effects of the crisis, investors and policy makers from crisis ...

Increases in national income are usually treated as economic growth. If large enough to produce increases in per capita income, they are generally considered as welfare enhancing. Yet, at the same time, these increases in ...

An examination of the growth rates in farm asset values and returns in New Zealand between 1962 and 1987 reveals that a significant divergence has developed between the two. The objective of this study was to examine the ...