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Dr Philip Paul Gunby

Contact

Department: Department of Economics and Finance

Email: philip.gunby@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3693823

Office: Meremere 427B

Language: English

About
Research / Creative works
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Fields of Research

  • Economics of Education
  • Applied Economics

Researcher Summary

Research interests include the economics of education, applied economics.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Economics: Applied Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics

Resources

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Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles
  • Gunby P. and Cheung L. (2022) Crime and Mobility during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Preliminary Empirical Exploration. New Zealand Economic Papers 56(1): 106-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00779954.2020.1870535.
  • Gunby P. and Watt R. (2021) A new approximation for the risk premium with large risks. Journal of Risk Finance 22(3/4): 279-295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JRF-04-2020-0073.
  • Watt R. and Gunby P. (2020) Time is money: An economic analysis of the optimal pacing problem. Mathematical Social Sciences 108: 50-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2020.08.003.
  • Gunby P., Jin Y. and Robert Reed W. (2017) Did FDI Really Cause Chinese Economic Growth? A Meta-Analysis. World Development 90: 242-255. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.10.001.
  • Healy N. and Gunby P. (2012) The impact of recent government tertiary education policies on access to higher education in New Zealand. Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice 27(1): 29-45.
  • Fountain J. and Gunby P. (2011) Ambiguity, the certainty illusion, and the natural frequency approach to reasoning with inverse probabilities. New Zealand Economic Papers 45(1-2): 195-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00779954.2011.556079.
  • Fountain J. and Gunby P. (2011) Improving clinician-patient communication of health risks when diagnostic test information is imprecise. The New Zealand Medical Journal 124(1342): 39-47.
  • Gunby P. (2011) How Bad is the State of Occupational Fatalities in New Zealand? New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations 36(1): 35-51.
  • Fountain J. and Gunby P. (2010) Comparing Ambiguous Inferences when Probabilities Are Imprecise. Wolfram Demonstrations Project.
  • Fountain J. and Gunby P. (2010) The Discriminatory Power of Diagnostic Information from Discrete Medical Tests. Wolfram Demonstration Project.
  • Woodfield A. and Gunby P. (2003) The Marketization of New Zealand Schools: Assessing Fiske and Ladd. Journal of Economic Literature 41(3): 863-884.
  • Cowan R. and Gunby P. (1996) Sprayed to death: Path dependence, lock-in and pest control strategies. Economic Journal 106(436): 521-542. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2235561.
Chapters
  • Gunby P. and Healy N. (2012) New Zealand. In UNESCO (Ed.), The Impact of Economic Crisis on Higher Education: 85-100. Bangkok: UNESCO.
  • Cowan R. and Gunby P. (2007) Sprayed to Death: Pest Control Strategies and Technological Lock-In. In Mytelka L (Ed.), Innovation and Economic Development Cheltenham: Edward-Elgar.
  • Cowan R., Fauchart E., Foray D. and Gunby P. (2006) Learning from disaster. In Pyka A; Hanusch H (Ed.), Applied Evolutionary Economics and the Knowledge-Based Economy: 40-71. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Hickson S. and Gunby P. (2016) The velocity of circulation – not constant and not irrelevant. Melbourne: Australasian Teaching Economics Conference, 7-8 Jul 2016.
  • Gunby P. and Jin Y. (2015) Determinants of Chinese Government Size: An Extreme Bounds Analysis. Wellington, New Zealand: 56th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE), 1-3 Jul 2015.
  • Fountain J. and Gunby P. (2010) Ambiguity, the Certainty Illusion, and Gigerenzer's Natural Frequency Approach to Reasoning with Inverse Probabilities. University of Auckland, New Zealand: 51st New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, 30 Jun-2 Jul 2010.
  • Gunby P. and Healy N. (2010) The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Higher Education in New Zealand. Bangkok, Thailand: Regional Seminar on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Higher Education and the Use of ICT in Universities in Asia and the Pacific, 30 Jun-2 Jul 2010.
  • Gunby P. and Wilkinson M. (2010) Evaluating the Impact of the 2002 Amendments to the Health and Safety in Employment Act (1992). University of Auckland, New Zealand: 51st New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, 30 Jun-2 Jul 2010.
  • Watt R. (2007) A New Approximation to the Risk Premium with Large Risks. Christchurch, New Zealand: 48th Annual Conference New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE), 27-29 Jun 2007.
Reports
  • Cowan R., Fauchart E., Foray D. and Gunby P. (2000) Technological Accidents: Learning from Disaster.Intitut pour le Managment de la Researche et de l'Innovation. Paris: Universite Paris-Dauphine Intitut pour le Managment de la Researche et de l'Innov. Commissioned by IMRI Working Paper 00/08, Université Dauphine.
Additional Publications
  • Gunby P. and Cheung L. (2020) Crime and Mobility during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Preliminary Empirical Exploration. 1-11.
  • Gunby P. and Hickson S. (2020) Cashless Economies, Data Analysis, and Research-Based Teaching: The Versatility of the Velocity of Money for Teaching Macroeconomics. 1-39.
  • Gunby P. and Hickson S. (2018) Is Cash Dead? Using Economic Concepts To Motivate Learning and Economic Thinking..
  • Gunby P. and Hickson S. (2016) Is Cash Dead? Using Economic Concepts To Motivate Learning and Economic Thinking. .
  • Gunby P., Jin Y. and Reed WR. (2016) Did FDI Really Cause Chinese Economic Growth? A Meta-Analysis. .
  • Gunby PP. and Jin Y. (2016) Determinants of Chinese Government Size: An Extreme Bounds Analysis. Department of Economics and Finance, University of Canterbury. 11.
  • Gunby PP. and Watt R. (2016) Optimal Pacing of 400m and 800m Races: A Standard Microeconomics Approach. RePEc. Commissioned by Department of Economics and Finance, University of Canterbury.
  • Hickson S. and Gunby P. (2016) The velocity of circulation - not constant and not irrelevant. In.
  • Fountain J. and Gunby P. (2010) Comparing Ambiguous Inferences When Probabilities are Imprecise. University of Canterbury. 17pp.
  • Cowan R., Fauchart E., Foray D. and Gunby P. (1999) Defaillances de logiciels, crise technologique et apprentissage: Une apprche par l'economie des connaissances. Raport de recerche, Convention 97-44, Programme Risques Collectifs et Situations de Crise - Conseil National de la Receherche Sc Raport de recerche, C.
  • Gunby P. (1998) Demon or Saviour? An Assessment of the ISO 9000 Quality Assurance Standards [Discussion Paper No. 9801]. Department of Ecomonics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

Review and Refereeing

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  • European Review of Agricultural Economics ( 2011 )
  • Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization ( 1997 - 2002)
  • Journal of the History of Economic Thought ( 2010 )
  • Journal Refereeing ( 2012 - 2023)
  • New Zealand Economic Papers ( 2010 )
  • USA National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( 1997 - 2002)
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