Matt and myself have just returned from our wedding, honeymoon, and birthday party overseas, and I’m eager to post a lot more content this year! However, before doing so I thought it would be fun to share a couple of pictures of our recent journey.
While the concept of quantitative easing has received a lot of attention amongst economists, qualitative easing was not as widely discussed. Qualitative easing is a monetary easing program that was used by Japan in 2013 and represents some elements of the QE programmes in the US. The outline of how it works is well described […]
When we model production functions in macroeconomics, the broad ingredients we have for output growth are labour and capital – our factors of production. Both of these factors need to be remunerated, which raises the question of what share of income goes to each. This is the question of factor income shares.
As Motu has noted, the gig economy is an emerging part of the labour market with the features of independent contracting. In the gig economy world, there is little to no cost of switching the job to another is involved. Examples of the gig economy activities include: Uber drivers, YouTube bloggers/ social influencers, independent consultants […]
Last time I discussed the relationship between the cost of capital and investment. Given that motivation, the goal of this post is to understand whether investment is responsive to changes in the UCC due to changes in tax settings. This does two things: Provides evidence regarding whether the capital stock will ultimately be influenced by […]
In this post I intend to motivate research that is underway by Lynda Sanderson and myself on the investment behaviour of New Zealand firms. [“Taxation, user cost of capital and investment behaviour of NZ firms” forthcoming] The goal of our current research is to understand how changes in tax settings in New Zealand have influenced […]