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Economics research at the AUT Business School
Economics is the study of the difficult choices made by individuals, households, firms and governments. It provides a logical and ordered way of looking at the problem-solving and optimising behaviour of decision makers. Economics is one of the core disciplines in any contemporary university. It provides the skills needed for analysing and implementing solutions to many of the critical problems facing businesses and societies today.
About the Economics departmentMembers of the Economics department at AUT have PhDs from universities around the world. They cover a wide range of fields within the discipline, including microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, international trade and finance, regional and urban economics, labour economics, economic development and public policy. We are proud of our established record and commitment to research excellence, high quality undergraduate, postgraduate, interdisciplinary and MBA education, and community and professional engagement, especially in the area of economic policy.
Our teaching is informed by our wide-ranging research activities. The Department has received a 100% research-active rating in the latest research quality assessment (PBRF 2006) among the universities in New Zealand. Members of the Department have published in many highly ranked, domestic and international journals in Economics. These include: Australian Economic Papers, Economica, Economics of Education Review, European Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Economic Surveys, Labour Economics, New Zealand Economic Papers, Regional Studies and World Economy.
Members of Economics Department sit on editorial boards and serve as referees for professional journals. They work as consultants and provide expert advice to both private firms and government organisations. This wealth of academic and real-world experience provides an ideal background for the supervision of student research at an Honours, Masters and PhD level at AUT.
Detailed information about the members of the Economics research team, including supervisory interests and current research activities, can be found by clicking on the names of individual staff, which are listed below:
Head of Department
Professors
Associate professors
Senior lecturers
Lecturers
PhD Students
Contact
Professor Tim Maloney - Head of Economics Discipline.
Email: tmaloney@aut.ac.nz