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Andrew Coleman

Andrew ColemanPh.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.