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Energy-aware optimisation of business processes
Due to changes in energy supply, and regulatory mechanism related to energy provisioning, organizations will need to tackle energy management is- sues. One way of doing so is to allocate resources to business processes ...
Where Should I Live? The Locational Choices of Australians and New Zealanders
This paper exploits the existence of the trans-Tasman travel agreement and the availability of comparable census data in Australia and New Zealand to examine the extent to which individuals respond to different labour ...
Corruption and the Public Display of Wealth
We build a principal-agent-client model of corruption, allowing for heterogeneity in the value of public projects relative to the cost of monitoring their execution and for uncertainty of corruptors regarding the value of ...
Search and destroy: a bioeconomic analysis of orange roughy fisheries on seamounts in New Zealand
This paper develops a bioeconomic model that captures the underlying incentives driving the serial depletion of pristine seamounts. The determinants under New Zealand’s Quota Management System relate to unit cost savings ...
Artificial Neural Networks and Aggregate Consumption Patterns in New Zealand
This study uses artificial neural networks (ANNs) to reproduce aggregate per-capita consumption patterns for the New Zealand economy. Results suggest that non-linear ANNs can outperform a linear econometric model at ...
Suggested retail prices with downstream competition
We analyze vertical relationships between a manufacturer and competing retailers when consumers have reference-dependent preferences. Consumers adopt the manufacturer’s suggested retail price as their reference price and ...