AUT - Business Economics
Business Economics
Our focus is on business itself and the business decision-maker rather than on the traditional role of economics in public policy. This is underpinned by our strong emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach, which is guided by our awareness and plurality of analytical traditions.
The Economics team comprises a lively, international group of economists, with research interests in human resource economics and industrial relations; international trade and finance; development economics; institutional economics; socio-economic policy; geographical economics; productivity variations; and policy evaluation and auditing. This approach has been welcomed by the community of economics scholars in New Zealand, attracting a 100% research-active rating in the country’s recent research quality assessment (PBRF 2006).
Our team’s primary teaching aim is to apply economics and socio-economic principles in areas that are of interest and relevance to most businesses. Our research informs our teaching, particularly the Business Economics major and double majors within the Bachelor of Business (BBus) programme, and advanced economics courses in the BBus Honours and Master of Business (MBus) programmes. We also make an active contribution to the School’s increasingly popular MBA programme.
Our applied focus is also reflected in our published research, which can be found in both, mainstream economics journals and in journals traditionally associated with other business disciplines, but in which economists are known to have applied their methods and reasoning. Our researchers have had their papers accepted for publication in a wide variety of highly regarded, internationally recognised journal outlets, including:
Applied Economics
Auditing – A Journal of Theory and Practice
Economics of Education Review
Economics Letters
Environment and Planning A
European Journal of Comparative Economics
European Journal of Industrial Relations
Evaluation Review
International Journal of Business Performance Management
International Journal of Human Resource Management
International Journal of Manpower
International Review of Applied Economics
International Review of Economics Education
Journal of Economic Surveys
Journal of Gambling, Business and Economics
Journal of Income Distribution
Journal of Regional Science
Journal of Socio-economics
Journal of World Trade
Local Economy
Papers in Regional Science
Policy Studies
Regional Studies
Research into Post-compulsory Education
Review of Social Economy
Singapore Economic Review
Social Indicators Research
World Economy
Detailed information about members of the Business Economics research team, supervisory interests and our current research activities and projects can be found by clicking on the names of individual staff, which are listed below:
Staff
Contact
Professor Tim Maloney - Chair of Economics Discipline.
Email: tmaloney@aut.ac.nz