New Zealanders have had a close relationship with Asia since World War 2 almost without realising that we had a close relationship. Japan was one of the first countries to grant us visa free access. In the 1950’s and 60’s ...

A number of environmental factors influence the International Transfer Pricing decision processes of multinational enterprises (MNEs). The extent to which each of these factors affect the process depends on management’s ...

A branding strategy is often employed in the marketing of manufactured or processed food products but many other food products have comparatively lower levels of branding. At the same time there are frequent calls to utilise ...

This paper presents a model of inflation that is generated by an excess supply of credit-money without any money base impulse from government. Instead, inflation turns out to depend on just three variables: the marginal ...

Conservation covenants have received scant attention internationally as a tool for providing conservation. This paper examines their use in New Zealand where they have been almost the sole policy measure in protecting land ...

This paper discusses changes in dietary patterns and proposes some reasons for these, including food safety and environmental reasons. Implications of these changes are discussed from both a national and international ...

This paper examines interorganisational collaboration between tourism organisations. Specifically, it addresses the critical preconditions necessary for co-ordinated tourism events to succeed. Using a proposed city winter ...

Some enduring location choices challenge the conventional models of competitive location allocation. One such is the persistence of market gardens around large urban centres that use locations that are highly valued because ...

In this paper we focus on the effects of the crisis on New Zealand exports, including the effects on New Zealand manufacturers, on the effects of the crisis on growth in East Asia, on the effects of the crisis on the ...

An appropriate objective for trade policy ought to be to maximise imports. Unfortunately, trade policy negotiators get very caught up in the facilitation of this objective by necessarily arguing about access for exports, ...