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Inertia and Herding in Humanitarian Aid Decisions

Fielding, David (Department of Economics, University of Otago, 2010)
Using panel data for the period 1995-2008, we model the aid allocation decisions of the three largest official donors of humanitarian aid: the United States government, the United Kingdom government and the European ...
Low-income housing in high-amenity areas: Long-run impacts on residential development

Thorsnes, Paul; Alexander, Robert; Kidson, David (University of Otago, 2011)
Centre-left governments from the 1940s into the 1970s developed several large areas in the urban fringe of Dunedin, New Zealand for low-density, mostly single-family public rental housing. The public housing in these areas ...
Due diligence, research joint ventures, and incentives to innovate

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen (University of Otago, 2011)
The decision to cooperate within R&D joint ventures is often based on ‘expert advice.’ Such advice typically originates in a due diligence process, which assesses the R&D joint venture’s profitability, for example, by ...
Consumer Response to Time Varying Prices for Electricity

Lawson, Rob; Thorsnes, Paul; Williams, John (University of Otago, 2011)
We report new experimental evidence of the household response to weekday differentials in peak and off-peak electricity prices. The data come from Auckland, New Zealand, where peak residential electricity consumption ...
New Zealand: The Last Bastion of Textbook Open-economy Macroeconomics

Fielding, David (University of Otago, 2011)
Recent empirical research into the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy shocks has generated a ‘puzzle’. Both Keynesian and Real Business Cycle models predict that a fiscal expansion will lead to a real exchange rate ...
Politics and techniques of data encryption

Wolfe, Henry B (University of Otago, 1996)
Cryptography is the art or science, depending on how you look at it, of keeping messages secure. It has been around for a couple of thousand years in various forms. The Spartan Lysander and even Caesar made use of cryptography ...
Who's next? A new process for creating points systems for prioritising patients for elective health services

Barber, Alison; Hansen, Paul; Naden, Ray; Ombler, Franz; Stewart, Ralph (University of Otago, 2011)
We describe a new process for creating points systems for prioritising patients for elective health services. Beginning in 2004, the authors were closely involved in a project to develop the process, initially for coronary ...
Planning and matchmaking in a multi-agent system for software integration

Diaz, Aurora; Cranefield, Stephen; Purvis, Martin (University of Otago, 1997)
Computer users employ a collection of software tools to support their day-to-day work. Often the software environment is dynamic with new tools being added as they become available and removed as they become obsolete or ...
Aid and Dutch Disease in the South Pacific

Fielding, David (University of Otago, 2007)
The impact of aid inflows on relative prices and output is ambiguous. Aid inflows that increase domestic expenditure are likely to cause real exchange rate appreciation, ceteris paribus. However, if this expenditure raises ...
Smoke alarm detection, broadcast notifications and social implications

Woods, Alan (University of Otago, 2010)
Changes in population demographics and lifestyle choices have led to an increased risk of higher mortality from house fires. The current average of 27 house fire related deaths per year is likely to be exceeded in the ...