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Environment
- Climate change mitigation
- Environmental modelling
- Climate change impacts
- Agricultural economics
- Solutions for Freshwater Management
- Fisheries Management
- Devolution and the Resource Management Act
- Value and Natural Capital
- The Adoption of Environmentally Friendly Technologies in Agriculture
- Policy-Induced Technology Adoption: Evidence from the U.S. Lead Phasedown
- Transaction Costs and Tradable Permit Markets: The United States Lead Phasedown
- A Case Study for Devolution: The problem of preserving kiwi habitat in the Far North
- Devolution and the New Zealand Resource Management Act
- A guide to just transitions for communities in Aotearoa NZ
- Urban & regional
- Wellbeing & macro-economics
- Population & labour
- Human rights
- Productivity & innovation
Wellbeing & macro-economics
Macroeconomics looks at fiscal and monetary policies and their aggregate effects, while wellbeing looks at outcomes such as income, life expectancy and sustainability.
Outcome measures may include typical macroeconomic concerns such as GDP, unemployment, inflation, balance of payments and exchange rates, but can also include wellbeing measures like life expectancy and life satisfaction. Sustainability measures may also be an important focus.
Our research focus
Motu’s current and recent research focus includes:
- Examining measures of aggregate wellbeing and sustainability – funded by a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund grant.
- The effects of culture on economic performance.
- The value of culture and heritage activities for regional and national outcomes.
- Effects of the exchange rate on exporting activity.
- Effects of central bank policies on financial and economic outcomes.
- Impacts of aggregate credit shocks on the housing market.
- Tax structures (including effective marginal tax rates for firms, and scope for a land tax).
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Much of Arthur Grimes' work on wellbeing and sustainability is conducted in conjunction with researchers from Waikato, Auckland and Lincoln universities.
Work on taxes is conducted together with researchers from Victoria University of Wellington and the Treasury.
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