This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of unexpected domestic and foreign monetary policy shocks on 'industrial output' in New Zealand based on a 'new open economy macroeconomic' (NOEM) model. Empirical analyses are ...

Since 1990, the European Union (EU) is New Zealand’s second biggest trading partner after Australia. New Zealand’s exports to the EU are mainly in agricultural products, such as sheep-meat, butter, venison, kiwifruit, ...

Loan contract performance determines the profitability and stability of the financial institutions and screening the loan applications is a key process in minimizing credit risk. Before making any credit decisions, credit ...

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 ...