Andrew Coleman
Ph.D.,
Economics, Princeton University, 1998
Andrew joined the Department in December 2010 having previously
held appointments at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington,
and the University on Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Andrew uses disaggregated computer based models and historic data
sets to research the way that transport networks affect prices and
production patterns across space. At Motu he has developed multiple
agent computer-based models to examine the incidence of demographic
change and taxes on the economy. In 2010 he was a member of New
Zealand's Saving Working Group.
Contact details
Office CO733
Tel 64 3 479 7494
Email andrew.coleman@otago.ac.nz
Current Teaching
Selected Publications
"The Long Term Impact of Capital Gains Taxes in New Zealand."
New Zealand Economic Papers 44(2), 2010, 159-177.
"A model of spatial arbitrage with transport capacity constraints
and endogenous transport prices," American Journal of Agricultural
Economics 91(1), 2009, 42-56.
"Storage, slow transport and the law of one price: theory
with evidence from nineteenth century U.S. corn markets," Review
of Economics and Statistics 91(2), 2009, 332-350.
"The pitfalls of estimating transactions costs from price
data: evidence from trans-Atlantic gold-point arbitrage, 1886 –
1905," Explorations in Economic History 44(3), 2007,
387-410.
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