Paul Hansen

BCom PGDipCom (Otago) MEc (ANU) PhD (Otago)

Lately Paul has been concentrating on priority setting and resource allocation, especially in the health sector. He's also very interested in working with other researchers and students at applying his "1000Minds" software referred to below (for research applications see www.1000minds.com/researchers). Paul's recent teaching includes 2nd-year microeconomics, health economics and 'managerial economics' for Otago's MBA.

Contact Details

Office CO727
Tel 64 3 479 8547
Email paul.hansen@otago.ac.nz

Current Teaching

• MBA
• ECON201
• ECON271

Paul Hansen's C.V.

Download a copy of Paul's current CV in PDF format.

Patented Software

"1000Minds" software (www.1000minds.com) for making prioritisation decisions based on the preferences and expert knowledge of users (i.e. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis), and also for Conjoint Analysis. (with F Ombler)

Selected Publications

"A new method for scoring multi-attribute value models using pairwise rankings of alternatives" (with F Ombler) Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 15, 2009, 87-107

"A 'new and improved' EQ-5D valuation questionnaire? Results from a pilot study" (with N Devlin, P Herbison & S Macran), The European Journal of Health Economics 6, 2005, 73-82.

Keeping Economics Real: New Zealand Economic Issues (edited with A King), Auckland: Pearson, 2004, 215 pp.

"Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' health state valuations - a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs" (with N Devlin, P Kind & A Williams), Health Economics 12, 2003, 529-544.

"Another graphical proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem", Journal of Economic Education, 33, 2002, 217-235. [pdf 934k]

"Health care expenditure and GDP: panel data unit root test results - comment", (with A King), Journal of Health Economics, 17, 1998, 377-381.

"The determinants of health care expenditure: a cointegration approach", (with A King), Journal of Health Economics, 15, 1996, 127-137.

"Inference on productivity differentials in multi-sector models of economic growth", (with R Alexander and D Owen), Journal of Development Economics, 51, 1996, 315-325.

"Uncertain income, uncertain taxes and Ricardian equivalence", Bulletin of Economic Research 48, 1996, 317-28.

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