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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.