New Zealand Economic Papers in published on behalf of the
New Zealand Association of Economists. NZAE was founded in 1959 and has five constitutional objects:
- To promote collaboration and discussion among professional economists in New Zealand;
- To encourage research and to publish the results of that research and other relevant material;
- To obtain and disseminate information on research projects in progress or anticipated;
- To promote the profession of economics in New Zealand; and
- To foster in all sections of the community interest in and understanding of New Zealand economic problems.
Membership is primarily open to those who have a degree in economics or commerce, and/or those who in the normal course of work use the tools of economic analysis such as teachers, investigators or advisers on economic matters.