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12/6: To Make or Buy (Skills): An Analysis of Training Decisions Using Microdata

Jason Timmins, Geoff Mason, Penny Mok, Peter Nunns and Philip Stevens

12/5: A Good Worker is Hard to Find: Skills Shortages in New Zealand Firms

Penny Mok, Geoff Mason, Philip Stevens and Jason Timmins

12/4: Business Strategies and Employment Decisions: Interviews with New Zealand Firms

William Kaye-Blake, Bette Flagler and Rachel Campbell

12/3: Business Strategy and Skills in New Zealand

Philip Stevens

12/2: Should the focus of publicly provided small business assistance be on start-ups or growth businesses?

Francis Greene

12/1: Inovation and the city: Review of the Auckland regional innovation system

EeMun Chen

11/4: Business Responses to the Introduction of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Part I

Elisabeth Numan-Parsons, Adolf Stroombergen Stroombergen and Ngaio Fletcher

11/3: Management Matters in New Zealand: How Does Manufacturing Measure Up?

Roy Green and Renu Agarwal

11/2: Auckland's Knowledge Economy: Australasian and European Comparisons

Arthur Grimes, Jason Le Vaillant and Philip McCann

11/1: Echanching Productivity: Towards an Updated Action Agenda

Roger Procter

10/2: Impact of emissions pricing on New Zealand manufacturing: A short-run analysis

Matthew Bartleet, Kris Iyer, Gillian Lawrence, Elisabeth Numan-Parsons and Adolf Stroombergen

10/1: Criminalisation of Cartel Behaviour

David King

09/1: Flying the nest - an analysis of Kiwi firms delisting from the NZX

Gillian Lawrence, Amelia Sharman and Bryan Chapple

08/9: Labour Productivity in Auckland Firms

David Maré

08/8: Inside the Black box: Policies for Economic Growth

Roger Procter

08/7: Ways of Thinking About Economic Growth: Papers from MED's Growth Seminar Series

Kenneth Carlaw, Brian Easton, Arthur Grimes, David Maré and Frederic Sautet

08/6: Assessing Agglomeration Impacts in Auckland: Phase 2

John Williamson, Richard Paling, Ramon Staheli and David Waite

08/5: Assessing Agglomeration Impacts in Auckland: Phase 1

John Williamson, Richard Paling and David Waite

08/4: A Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Firm Performance Measures

Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Philip Stevens

08/3: Firm Level Patterns in Merchandise Trade

Richard Fabling and Lynda Sanderson

08/2: Do Exporters Cut the Hedge? Who Hedges, When and Why?

Richard Fabling and Arthur Grimes

08/1: Some Rise by Sin, and Some by Virtue Fall: Firm Dynamics, Market Structure and Performance

Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes, Lynda Sanderson and Philip Stevens

07/5: New Zealand Financial Markets, Saving and Investment

Linda Cameron, Bryan Chapple, Nick Davis, Artemisia Kousis and Geoff Lewis

07/4: Just How Innovative are New Zealand Firms? Quantifying & Relating Organisational and Marketing Innovation to Traditional Science & Technology Indicators

Richard Fabling

07/3: Capital Intensity and Welfare: National and International Determinants

Arthur Grimes

07/2: HR Practices and Firm Performance: What Matters and Who Does It?

Richard Fabling and Arthur Grimes

07/1: Geographic Concentration and Firm Productivity

David Maré and Jason Timmins

06/9: Improving the Water Allocation Framework in New Zealand

Richard Hawke

06/8: Business R&D, Innovation and Economic Growth: An Evidence-Based Synthesis of the Policy Issues

Nick Davis

06/7: Impacts of Employment Regulation: Towards an Evaluation Framework

Jeff Borland

06/6: Public Policy Framework for the New Zealand Innovation System

Keith Smith

06/5: Trade and Networks: Mechanisms for Productivity Growth

Lynda Sanderson

06/4: A Smooth Ride: Terms of Trade, Volatility and GDP Growth

Arthur Grimes

06/3: The Effects of Agglomeration on Economic Activity: The Empirical Evidence on Mechanisms and Magnitudes

Ron Crawford

06/2: Determinants of National R&D and Patenting: Application to a Small, Distant Country

Ron Crawford, Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Nick Bonner

06/1: Practice Makes Profit: Business Practices and Firm Success

Richard Fabling and Arthur Grimes