Bob Buckle
PVC /Dean,
Commerce and Administration Faculty Office
Phone: 04 463 5822
Email: address
Street Address: Room 1209, Rutherford House 23 Lambton Quay, Pipitea Campus
Nearest Fax: 04 463 5436
Personal History
Professor Buckle was appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Administration commencing 1 February 2008.
Prior to taking up this position, Professor Buckle was a senior advisor with the New Zealand Treasury from 2000 to 2007 where he led work on macroeconomic policy priorities and the development of the Treasury's economic growth programme. He was also Chair, Economic Committee, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in 2007 and 2008.
Prior to joining the Treasury in 2000, Professor Buckle was Head of the School of Economics and Finance at Victoria University of Wellington. He was a full-time member of the academic staff at Victoria University from 1981 to 2000 and has been a visiting economist at several overseas universities, research institutes and international economic policy organisations.
In 2003 he was awarded the NZIER/QANTAS award for contributions to New Zealand economics. Professor Buckle was appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University, Australia in May 2008. In July 2009 he was made a Life Member of the New Zealand Association of Economists. Professor Buckle is the Chair of the Victoria University Tax Working Group.
Qualifications
M.Com(Hons), Auck
B.Com, Auck
Responsibilities
The Pro Vice-Chancellor is a member of the University Senior Management Team and manages the Faculty of Commerce and Administration, which includes management responsibility for the Heads of the Schools of Accounting and Commercial Law, Economics and Finance, Information Management, Marketing and International Business, and the Victoria Management School.
In this role, the Pro Vice-Chancellor is responsible for the strategic development of the Faculty and participation in all strategy development and implement ation activities for the University.
Selection of Recent Publications and Presentations
Journal Articles
'Asia-Pacific growth before and after the global financial crisis', Policy Quarterly, 5 (4), November 2009, pp. 36-45.
'APEC moves behind-the-border: Evidence that structural reform will hasten income convergence in the Asia-Pacific region' (with Amy Cruickshank), Agenda, 15 (4), December 2008, pp. 19-34.
'A structural VAR business cycle model for a volatile small open economy' (with Kunhong Kim, Heather Kirkham, Nathan McLellan and Jared Sharma), Economic Modelling, 24, November 2007, pp. 990-1017.
'Consumption-smoothing in a small, cyclically volatile open economy: Evidence from New Zealand' (with Kunhong Kim, Viv B. Hall), Journal of International Money and Finance, 25 (8), December 2006, pp. 1277-1295.
'Markov switching models for GDP growth in a small open economy: The New Zealand experience' (with David Haugh and Peter Thomson), Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis, 1 (2), 2004, pp. 227-257.
'Calm after the storm?: Supply-side contributions to New Zealand's GDP volatility decline' (with David Haugh and Peter Thomson), New Zealand Economic Papers, 37 (2), 2003, pp. 217-243.
'Inflation and asymmetric price adjustment' (with John Carlson), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 82 (1), 2000, pp. 157-160.
'Menu costs, firm size and price rigidity (with John Carlson), Economics Letters, 66 (1), 2000, pp. 59-63.
Other Recent Publications and Presentations
'Is looking behind the border the key to catching up?' (with Laura Hubbard), Competition and Regulation Times, Issue 29, July 2009, p.16.
'The Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Asia-Pacific Growth', Lee Foundation Lecture, 29 August 2009, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
'Toward a World Class Tax System', Address to the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department Technical Leaders' Conference, 25 August 2009, James Cook Grand Chancellor Hotel, Wellington.
'The Global Financial Crisis and Asia-Pacific Growth: Causes, Consequences and Lessons', Keynote address to the World Class Practices in Management Education Conference, 31 May - 2 June 2009, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. This address was also presented as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebrations of the Victoria University MBA, 11 August 2009, Victoria University of Wellington.
'The Global Financial Crisis', presentation to the New Zealand Law Librarians' Association Symposium, 7 May 2009, Auckland.
'The business cycle, housing and the role of policy: summary of a recent conference held by the Treasury and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand' (with Aaron Drew), Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, 71 (1), March 2008, pp. 40-44.
'Progressing structural reform in APEC economies', Invited article for the APEC Newsletter: Leaders' Week Edition, 18, November 2008.
'The challenge of structural change', pp. 130-143 in Driving Growth - APEC's Destiny, Edited by APEC Study Centre, Monash University, Australia, published by The APEC Study Centre, Monash University, in association with APEC 2007 and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Australia, August 2008, pp 275.
'Roles of fiscal policy in New Zealand' (with Felicity Barker and Robert St Clair), Treasury Working Paper 08/01, June 2008, pp 42.
'Structural reform in APEC economies', Presentation at the APEC Thematic Seminar and Informal Senior Officials' meeting, Lima, Peru, 27-29 November 2007.
'Time has come to get busy behind the borders', The Australian Financial Review, Special APEC Issue, 3 September, 2007, page S14.
'Roles of fiscal policy in New Zealand' (with Felicity Barker and Robert St Clair), paper for a conference on 'Fiscal policy frameworks, monetary policy implications, and intergenerational financial funds', co-hosted by CAMA and the Lowy Institute, 23-24 August, Sydney.
'The challenge of structural change in APEC economies' (with Amy Cruickshank), Treasury Working Paper 07/06, July 2007, pp. 41.
'Toward a model of firm productivity dynamics' (with David Law and Dean Hyslop), Treasury Working Paper 06/11, November 2006, pp. 31.
'Testing stabilisation policy limits in a small open economy', Proceedings from a macroeconomic policy forum (Editor with Aaron Drew), Reserve Bank of New Zealand and The Treasury, Wellington, October 2006, pp. 200.
'Impacts of a potential influenza pandemic on New Zealand's macroeconomy' (with James Douglas and Kam Szeto), Treasury Policy Perspectives Paper 06/03.
'Skill and stamina win the growth race at the OECD stadium' (with Nathan McLellan), Competition and Regulation Times, Vol. 13, January 2004, pp. 8-10.
'The growth race at the OECD stadium' (with Nathan McLellan), Competition and Regulation Times, Vol. 11, August 2003, pp. 1-2, 12.
'The impact of monetary policy on New Zealand business cycles and inflation variability' (with Kunhong Kim and Nathan McLellan), Treasury Working Paper 03/09.