Remarkably little is known about the boards of directors of New Zealand companies. The most recent research in this area was conducted by Turner (1985) who examined CEO duality among listed companies for 1984, and Chandler ...

Although possums have been controlled by government agencies for more than 4 decades, there is little quantitative information available on the costs of controlling possums or the extent to which costs vary. A number of ...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate a model of rent determination for shopping centers in the Central District of Hong Kong, one that allows for differentiation among retail units. Besides some of the commonly-studied ...

The world recessionary period of the 1980's forced many governments to re-evaluate their economic management strategies. Today, existing strategies are being supplanted by a belief that economic growth is best achieved by ...

This paper examines the past and current development of the organic industry in New Zealand. Organic farming in New Zealand has changed and grown rapidly over the last 10 years. This has mainly been due to the development ...

Participation in agrichemical training courses and awareness of the benefits of information on safe and efficient agrichemical use and management is ultimately dependant upon recognition of a need or a desire for such ...

This paper aims to explain from within mainstream theory why incorporating the rational expectations hypothesis in new classical macroeconomics leads to stable market equilibria, while other branches within the mainstream ...

This paper examines in the context of a developing agrarian economy aspects of the Post Keynesian theories of inflation caused by income distribution conflict and of endogenous money creation. It highlights the ability of ...

The crisis in Asia has dominated economic, financial, and much business thinking for more than seven months. It looks set to continue to do so for an extended period. The effects on the countries concerned, on the region, ...

Capital theory has been used in a wide range of economic applications to provide valuable insights into intertemporal trade-offs. This research uses an optimal control framework to model a livestock disease control problem ...