Motu has developed a game where participants take part in a simplified nutrient trading system or a simplified emissions trading system. This was designed to give participants ‘hands on’ experience of trading.Nutrient Trading SystemParticipants manage either a...
This paper examines the incidence of involuntary job loss and its impact on the employment and earnings of affected workers, using data from the Survey of Families, Incomes and Employment (SoFIE) for the 2002–09 period....
This paper proposes a framework for how houses could be developed, with a focus on how regulatory policies and practices affect decision making. The authors surveyed property developers in Auckland on how planning rules and...
Many public entities are interested in empirical estimation of the overall impact, in terms of benefits to citizens, of publicly funded research. These include:
increased incomes,
better health,
cleaner environment,
enhancement of social and cultural values, and
any other benefit...
This paper looks at the challenges New Zealand has confronted and potential solutions that have emerged while investigating the inclusion of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an emissions trading scheme. We argue that a...
Considerable emphasis has been placed on designing climate change mitigation policies, both in New Zealand and internationally. This paper, while also dealing with climate change, alters the focus to adaptation policy. Adaptation is important whether...
In 2001, the New Zealand Superannuation Fund was created to partially prefund the future cost of New Zealand’s pay-as-you-go superannuation scheme. In 2009, in response to worsening government finances, additional contributions to the Fund ceased.
This...
Why does transport deserve its own conference, its own government department and delivery agencies, its own trade journals, academic journals and books? The reason is not because transport is valued particularly in its own right....
Motu has extensive research programmes in the areas of emissions trading to address greenhouse gases and nutrient trading for water quality. This Motu Note provides an introduction to both fields and surveys interactions between nutrient...