Niven Winchester, Department of Economics, University of Otago

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Niven Winchester

B Niven Winchester Com(Hons) (Otago) MEc (ANU) PhD (Nottingham)

Niven's research evaluates trade policies and climate change mitigation policies using computable general equilibrium modelling. Recent studies focus on 'food miles', the impact of trade liberalisation on wage inequality, and the economic impact of border carbon adjustments. Niven also has an interest in sports economics, particularly sports predictions and sports ranking systems. Niven currently has at joint appointment at the University of Otago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact Details

Office: CO726
Tel 64 3 479 8648
Fax 64 3 479 8174
Email niven.winchester@otago.ac.nz

Niven Winchester's CV

You can view Niven's CV in pdf format.

Work in Progress

(With S. Paltsev & J. Reilly) Will border carbon adjustments work? Report 184, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA
(With R. Stefani) An innovative approach to NFL standings using optimal bonus points, University of Otago Economics Discussion Paper 0905, 2009.
(With L.J.A. Lenten) Optimal bonus points in the Australian Football League, University of Otago Economics Discussion Paper 0903, 2009.
(With D. Duval) Public/private risk sharing in air services provision. (Available by request)

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

(With J. Ballingall) Food miles: Starving the poor? The World Economy, forthcoming.
(With S. Paltsev, J. Morris & J. Reilly) Costs of mitigating climate change in the US, Annual Review of Resource Economics, forthcoming.
(With A. Charteris) Dairy disaggregation and joint production in an economy-wide model, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, forthcoming
Is there a dirty little secret? NTBs and the gains from trade, Journal of Policy Modeling, 31(6), 2009, 819-834.
Searching for the smoking gun: Did trade hurt unskilled workers? The Economic Record, 2008, 84, 141-156.
Shifting the 'goal posts': Optimizing the allocation of competition points for sporting contests, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2008, 4, Article 1.
(With D. Greenaway) Rising wage inequality and capital-skill complementarity, Journal of Policy Modeling, 29(1), 2007, 41-54.
A classroom tariff setting game, Journal of Economic Education, 37(4), 2006, 431-441. (Download a spreadsheet for calculating utility and terms of trade in Excel format and other downloads to assist classroom instruction.)
(With D. Greenaway & G.V. Reed) Skill classification and the effect of trade on wage inequality, Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 142(2), 2006, 287-306.
Liberating Middle Earth: How will changes in the global trading system affect New Zealand? New Zealand Economic Papers, 40(1), 2006, 45-79.

Book Chapters

Optimal Super Rugby bonus points revisited, In L.J.A. Lenten (ed.), Economics of Sports Leagues: An International Perspective, Edward-Elgar: Northampton, forthcoming.
(With M. Richardson) More (or less) on necessarily welfare-enhancing free trade areas, In N. Van Long, M. Tawada and B. Tran-Nam Atax (eds), Globalization and Emerging Issues in Trade Theory and Policy, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Volume 5, Emerald, 2008, 121-138.
Trade and rising wage inequality: What can we learn from a decade of computable general equilibrium analysis? In: D. Greenaway, R. Upward and P. Wright (eds), Globalisation and Labour and Market Adjustment, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008, 54-72.