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Experiments on reciprocity, social comparisons and overconfidence.
(University of Canterbury. School of Business and Economics, 2015)
This thesis consists of three chapters focusing on negative reciprocity, transparency and job assignment, and overconfidence. To test my hypotheses I use experimental economics methods, which offer control over the data ...
Why does Australia grow faster than New Zealand?
(University of Canterbury. Department of Economics, 2002)
We analyse the divergence in productivity between Australia and New Zealand, with
a special emphasis on quantifying the industry-level contributors to the divergence
and on whether the countries have comparable growth ...
Telecommunication regulation.
(University of Canterbury. Department of Economics, 2002)
Telecommunications has gained in importance in the world economy. Regulation of
this industry therefore has become a crucial policy issue of the governments around
the world. In the thesis, I examine regulation of ...
Social media usage and its effect on virtual team dynamics: a Transactive Memory System approach
(University of Canterbury, 2015)
Virtual teams (VTs) comprise knowledge workers who are geographically dispersed, may be constrained by different time zones, and primarily co-ordinate their work through suitable communication tools. Virtual teams are ...
The costs of community and institutional care of the dependent elderly
(University of Canterbury. Economics, 1987)
Estimates have been obtained of the cost of care of the
dependent elderly in private and public hospital and in the
community, based upon information collected on samples of
elderly in Christchurch, New Zealand. In order ...
Organisational information systems resilience : a Q-methodology approach.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)
Organisational resilience has gained increasing attention in recent years. In this research, we adopt Agency Theory and Weill’s IT Governance framework to investigate the decision priorities of senior executives in the ...
An Application of Principal Component Analysis to Stock Portfolio Management
(University of Canterbury. Department of economics and finance, 2015)
This thesis investigates the application of principal component analysis to the Australian stock market using ASX200 index and its constituents from April 2000 to February 2014. The first ten principal components were ...
The direct and indirect influences of job demands, engagement and drive on work-life conflict and well-being
(University of Canterbury. Department of Management, 2015)
In healthy organisations, employee well-being is coexistent with efficient and effective work organisations. Improving employee wellbeing is therefore of significant importance for organisational performance. This study ...
Exploring the Importance of Innovations with Patent Citations
(University of Canterbury. Economics, 2007)
This thesis begins by outlining the theoretical and empirical foundations of the economics of innovations. It then proceeds by analysing four econometric issues in the measurement of technological knowledge embedded in ...
Preliminary-test estimation of a mis-specified linear model with spherically symmetric disturbances
(University of Canterbury. Economics, 1990)
This thesis considers some finite sample properties of preliminary test (pre-test) estimators of the unknown parameters of a (possibly) mis-specified linear regression model. We investigate two types of misspecification ...
