New Zealand embarked on major unilateral trade policy changes as part of the economic reform packages from 1984. Since that time there has been some evidence that unskilled wages have fallen relative to skilled workers ...

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, ...

This paper estimates short and long run income elasticities of demand for New Zealand exports to several Asian countries. Export demand is modelled as a function of spending power using cointegration analysis. The results ...

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 ...

The trade and wages debate worldwide, over the last decade has focused attention on the possible relationships between trade liberalisation and the factor distribution of income. In Australia real wages in manufacturing ...

The New Zealand dairy industry has been well placed to take advantage of the relaxing international market barriers that have long plagued the dairy trade. At the same time it is very important to keep the size of New ...

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, ...

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 ...