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Working Papers in Economics [142]
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Crime and Mobility during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Preliminary Empirical Exploration
(2020)In this research note we document the decrease in victimisation rates during the COVID-19 lockdown period in New Zealand. We show that the changes in mobility patterns in the same period are significantly correlated with ... -
Fluid Personality: Indigenous Rights and the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2019)In March 2017, the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 (NZ) (‘Te Awa Tupua Act’) became the first piece of legislation in the world to declare a river a legal person. Through this grant of legal ... -
Preventing the use of financial institutions for money laundering and the implications for financial privacy
(Emerald, 2018)© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the implication of money laundering preventive measures for financial privacy, with the focus on banking secrecy. Design/methodology/approach: This ... -
The Socratic Method Reloaded: How to Make it Work in Large Classes?
(2014)The Socratic method with its constant questioning poses a challenge to students, more so than any other teaching method. By the same token, it teaches law students what they need to know: legal analysis, critical thinking ... -
Trust or Do Not Trust: Evaluation Strategies Used by Online Health Consumers in South East Asia
(2020)Introduction. Health information searching is a popular activity conducted on the Internet. However, the focus of past research studies have been on health consumers from the western world. Thus, there is a gap of information ... -
Looking Forward Looking Back: Customary International Law, Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples
(2020)Two of the most laudable achievements of human rights are the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Aside from advancing ... -
Housing in Post-Quake Canterbury: Human Rights Fault Lines
(2017)The 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes and their aftermath have been described by the Human Rights Commission as one of New Zealand's greatest contemporary human rights challenges. This article documents the shortcomings in ... -
The growing threat of money laundering to Vietnam
(Emerald, 2013)Purpose - The paper sketches out the scenario of money laundering (ML) in Vietnam and the harm ML may cause to the country. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first, based on the general concept of ML, scrutinizes ... -
Online Health Searching: A Perspective from South East Asia
(2020)Performing an online health search is a popular activity conducted on the Internet. Research studies from developed countries provide information on source used, type of search performed and devices used to perform the ... -
Online Health Searching: A Perspective from South East Asia
(2020)Performing an online health search is a popular activity conducted on the Internet. Research studies from developed countries provide information on source used, type of search performed and devices used to perform the ... -
Workplace Exercise Programmes - How organizational factors influence employee participation
(Emerald, 2019)© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Past research identifies many positive outcomes associated with workplace exercise initiatives. Realizing these outcomes is, however, dependent on securing sustained employee ... -
Dissensus and democratic accountability in a case of conflict
(Emerald, 2020)© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper explores diverse practices of the giving and demanding of democratic accountability within a case of conflict around deep-sea petroleum exploration in Aotearoa New ... -
Business-to-business software as a service : how gamification can be used as an acquisition tool through its influence on engagement.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This research explores the influence that gamification may have upon the behavioural intentions of new business software users towards the adoption of information technology. Many businesses operating within the business ... -
Take it or leave it : party not ending for payday lending.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis analyses the effectiveness of the current New Zealand consumer credit protection legislation for third tier credit standard form contracts. This thesis argues that the current legislative protection under the ... -
Towards understanding the initial adoption of online retail stores in a low internet penetration context: An exploratory work in Ghana
(MDPI AG, 2020)© 2020 by the author. Online shopping has become increasingly popular in the past two decades. Yet, despite its popularity, the use of online stores on the African continent pales in comparison to other parts of the world. ... -
‘Wicked’ solutions for ‘wicked’ problems: Responsible innovations in social enterprises for sustainable development
(2020)Social enterprises create innovative solutions to address social issues and achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). This paper examines the innovative social entrepreneurial processes using the theoretical foundation ... -
Commercial Surrogacy and the Sale of Children: A Call to Action for the Committee on the Rights of the Child
(Centre for Commercial & Corporate Law Inc, University of Canterbury, 2019)One of the many unsettled issues in relation to commercial surrogacy is whether a commercial surrogacy arrangement amounts to an unlawful sale of children in breach of article 35 of the United Nations Convention on ...
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