2015 Working Paper series

Links to papers from the 2015 Working Paper series.

• Basic understanding of social inequality dynamics, Jacek B Krawczyk and Wilbur Townsend (WP 01/2015)
• New Zealand inequality and the struggle between capital and labour, Jacek B Krawczyk and Wilbur Townsend (WP 02/2015)
• Comparing the direct human impact of natural disasters for two (surprisingly similar) cases - the Christchurch earthquake and Bangkok flood of 2011, Ilan Noy (WP 03/2015)
• A non-monetary global measure of the direct impact of natural disasters, Ilan Noy (WP 04/2015)
• The (MIS) allocation of public spending in a low income country: Evidence from disaster risk reduction spending in Bangladesh, Azreen Karim and Ilan Noy (WP 05/2015)
• The long-run socio-economic consequences of a large disaster: The 1995 earthquake in Kobe, William Du Pont IV, Yoko Ukuyama, Ilan Noy and Yasuyuki Sawada (WP 06/2015)
• Precautionary strategies and household savings, Joshua Aizenman, Eduardo Cavallo and Ilan Noy (WP 07/2015)
• Natural disasters and climate change in the Pacific island countries: New non-monetary measurements of impacts, Ilan Noy (WP 08/2015)
• Recessions and recoveries of the New Zealand's post-second world war business cycles, Viv Hall and John McDermott (WP 09/2015)
• Viability of an economy with constrained inequality, Jacek B Krawczyk and Wilbur Townsend (WP 10/2015)
• The effect of payday lending restrictions on liquor sales, Harold E Cuffe and Christopher G Gibbs (WP 11/2015)
• Innovation and growth with financial, and other, frictions, Jonathan Chiu, Cesaire Meh and Randall Wright (WP 12/2015)
• Gender gap in upward mobility: What is the role of non-cognitive traits?, Luke yu-Wei Chu and Susan J Linz (WP 13/2015)
• Understanding peer effects - on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects, Jan Feld and Ulf Zölitz (WP 14/2015)