The purpose of this paper is to develop an ordinal probit model of entrepreneurship which would enable us to calibrate the degree of entrepreneurship of an individual in appropriate samples and to perform multivariate ...

Contrary to the view that complex dynamical systems are curiosities at a safe distance from core tenets of economics, it is shown that they undermine a few fundamental constructs and models. The long run macroeconomic ...

Using data from a 1989 household survey of new vehicle buyers, this paper develops and estimates a nested logit model of new vehicle demands where the make-models in the lower nest are partitioned by their fuel efficiencies ...

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 ...

This study extends previous recreational demand research by defining an annual portfolio of recreational trips as the elemental alternative. There are three distinct advantages to this approach. First, identifying an ...

This study has two objectives. The first objective is to address the issue of management versus owner control of New Zealand public listed companies. Specifically the focus is on the extent to which shareholders in New ...

Numerous studies have explored the relationship between corporate governance and corporate financial performance - see Zahra and Pearce (1989) for a review. In contrast, only a few studies have looked at corporate governance ...

This paper presents a simple application of the travel cost method conducted using geographical information system software. This permits analysis of the impact of various assumptions concerning the definition of visitor ...

Attempts by the government of New Zealand to redress past inequities to Maori will inevitably play an important part in future economic development for Maori. While some attention has been given to economic development for ...

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 ...