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What Explains Changes in the Level of Abuse Against Civilians during the Peruvian Civil War?

Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja (Discussion Paper, 2010)

Using a new monthly time-series data set, we explore the factors associated with variations in the number of civilians killed or wounded by participants in the civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that an ...
Evaluating the Feasibility of a Pacific Islands Currency Union

Lahari, Willie (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)

This thesis evaluates the feasibility of a Pacific Islands currency union involving six Pacific Island countries (PICs) comprising Fiji, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, and their ...
The Use of Win Percentages for Competitive Balance Measures

King, Nicholas (Thesis, Master of Commerce, 2011)

The purpose of this thesis is to test the appropriateness of using win percentages as a basis for measuring competitive balance in a sports competition. Match results are simulated to generate end-of-season outcomes which ...
Suggested retail prices with downstream competition

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Puppe, Clemens; Rosenkranz, Stephanie (Discussion Paper, 2012)

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 ...
Do monetary shocks cause regional prices to go bananas?

Gibson, Frederick A. C. (Thesis, Master of Commerce, 2012)

This thesis intends to investigate the asymmetric effects of monetary policy on regional prices within Fiji. The monetary policy shocks are generated by removing any systemic response to future economic conditions from the ...
Search and destroy: a bioeconomic analysis of orange roughy fisheries on seamounts in New Zealand

Kahui, Viktoria; Armstrong, Claire W. (Discussion Paper, 2012)

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 ...
Playoff Uncertainty, Match Uncertainty and Attendance at Australian National Rugby League Matches

King, Nicholas; Owen, P. Dorian; Audas, Rick (Discussion Paper, 2010)

This paper develops a new simulation-based measure of playoff uncertainty and investigates its contribution to modelling match attendance compared to other variants of playoff uncertainty in the existing literature. A model ...
Innovation Races with the Possibility of Failure

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Martin, Stephen (Discussion Paper, 2011)

The standard innovation race specification assumes a memoryless exponential distribution for the time to success of an R&D project. This specification implies that a project succeeds, eventually, with probability one. ...
Determinants of Relative Price Variability during a Recession: Evidence from Canada at the Time of the Great Depression

Fielding, David; Hajzler, Chris; MacGee, Jim (Discussion Paper, 2011)

Most studies find that relative price variability (RPV) is a U-shaped or V-shaped function of anticipated inflation, and a V-shaped function of unanticipated inflation. One exception is Reinsdorf (1994), who finds that RPV ...
Virtually Science: An Agent-based Model of the Rise and Fall of Scientific Research Programs

Farhat, Daniel (Discussion Paper, 2010)

Is there more to ‘good science’ than explaining novel facts? Social interaction within the scientific community plays a pivotal role in defining acceptable research. This paper develops an agent-based computational model ...