The purpose of this study is to investigate the relative strengths of the channels through which monetary policy impacts upon the real sector in New Zealand. The three main channels that have been identified in the literature ...

The allocation of publicly funded resources in the health sector via Cost Utility Analysis requires preferences for different health states to be known. While preferences for New Zealanders as a whole have been elicited, ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate one possible cause for the recent rise OECD health care expenditures, namely the Sisyphus syndrome. In order for a Sisyphus syndrome to exist two dynamic relationships must hold. ...

This study investigates the effect of compliance mechanisms on contributions to a public good fund in an experimental context. Thirty-six participants, matched by gender and trust level into nine groups of four participants, ...

Monetary policy is a topic of enduring interest. This is partially due to the financial liberalisation that increases the volume of international capital flows and the influence of foreign monetary policy on the domestic ...

This thesis investigates the determinants of international capital flows and strives to present new evidence-based answers to the long-standing question of why capital tends not to flow from rich to poor countries as ...

This thesis is a collection of three separate but thematic studies on child human capital development in Nepal. The first study (Chapter 3) examines the relationship between parental education and child health outcomes ...

Over the last 40 years worldwide obesity rates have doubled and diabetes rates have quadrupled. Obesity is estimated to be killing at least 2.8 million adults per year and rising (European Association for the study of ...

When a private transaction takes place without publically observable prices, how might that information leak into the public domain and coordinate demand and supply sides of the economy? The Walrasian model of general ...