The New Zealand dairy industry has been well placed to take advantage of the relaxing international market barriers that have long plagued the dairy trade. At the same time it is very important to keep the size of New ...

Some enduring location choices challenge the conventional models of competitive location allocation. One such is the persistence of market gardens around large urban centres that use locations that are highly valued because ...

We present the first assessment of willingness to pay (WTP) for water supply change to be conducted in the largest city in the developing world; Mexico City. Two large sample contingent valuation surveys are conducted to ...

The contingent valuation method for estimating willingness to pay for public goods typically adopts a single referendum question format which is statistically inefficient. As an alternative, Cooper, Hanemann and Signorello ...

We review the literature regarding the aggregation of benefit value estimates for non-market goods. Two case studies are presented through which we develop an approach to aggregation which applies the spatial analytic ...

Attempts by the government of New Zealand to redress past inequities to Maori will inevitably play an important part in future economic development for Maori. While some attention has been given to economic development ...

This paper presents a simple application of the travel cost method conducted using geographical information system software. This permits analysis of the impact of various assumptions concerning the definition of visitor ...

This study has two objectives. The first objective is to address the issue of management versus owner control of New Zealand public listed companies. Specifically the focus is on the extent to which shareholders in New ...

Remarkably little is known about the boards of directors of New Zealand companies. The most recent research in this area was conducted by Turner (1985) who examined CEO duality among listed companies for 1984, and Chandler ...

This study extends previous recreational demand research by defining an annual portfolio of recreational trips as the elemental alternative. There are three distinct advantages to this approach. First, identifying an ...