2009

Client: Greater Wellington Regional Council Authors: David Norman and Kel Sanderson Date: September 2009 This project developed a framework for measuring the business interruption losses from lifeline disruption after a rupture of the Wellington fault line. Working with Greater Wellington Regional Council and the Wellington Lifelines Group, we estimated likely lifeline restoration times, industry dependencies on various lifelines, building »»

Client: Greater Wellington Regional Council Authors: David Norman and Kel Sanderson Date: November 2009 This project followed on from the work we did developing a framework for measuring the business interruption losses from lifeline disruption after a rupture of the Wellington fault line. Working with Greater Wellington Regional Council, we estimated how the proposed Whakatikei Dam would reduce lifeline restoration times, and thus business »»

Client: Cook Islands Tourism Corporation Authors: David Norman and Kel Sanderson Date: November 2009 This project estimated the likely economic benefit to the Cook Islands of a proposed new seasonal air route between Sydney and Rarotonga. The report presents a range of scenarios, with load factors ranging between 65 percent and 85 percent, and flights a year between 12 and 16. The additional visitors on these flights could spend up to $5.5 »»

Client: Cook Islands Tourism Corporation Authors: David Norman Kel Sanderson, and Iain Munro Date: October 2009 This project updated work we did last year on the economic benefit of the RAR-LAX air route on the Cook Island economy. The project shows the role the route has in attracting Northern Hemisphere visitors to the Cook Islands. It presents a picture of the current economic impact of these visitors, and also of the likely increase as »»

Client: Nelson City Council Authors: David Norman, Fiona Stokes, Kel Sanderson, Tim Grubb, Cristine Angus Date: October 2009 This project, completed for Nelson City Council, considered the likely economic benefits of a proposed Conference Centre (CC), and a proposed Performing Arts Centre (PAC), for the Nelson-Tasman Region. The report estimated the likely construction costs of the PAC, and produced two scenarios of what economic impact the »»

Client: Pacific Cooperation Foundation Authors: David Norman, Michael Webster and Dr Ganesh Nana Date: June 2009 This project was completed for the Pacific Cooperation Foundation. Its purpose was to provide economic support and analysis to the Pacific Wave Conference being held in Auckland from 3 to 4 June 2009. The project had two components. First, we produced a Key Points for Keynote Speakers document. The Key Points document provided »»

Client: Positively Wellington Tourism and Grow Wellington Authors: Michael Webster and Dr Ganesh Nana Date: June 2009 This project was completed for Grow Wellington and Positively Wellington Tourism. Its purpose was to fees to produce an economic impact analysis for a Wellington on a Plate food festival. The report described the festival, the potential benefits of the festival, and went on to estimate the economic impact to the Wellington »»

Authors: David Norman, Jiani Wu, Jason Leung-Wai Client: Education New Zealand Date: May 2009 This project was commissioned by the Education New Zealand (ENZ) Trust. Its chief purpose is to aid the development of region-specific marketing strategies for the China market. The China market is a crucial component of export education for many New Zealand institutions, but numbers of students from China have declined sharply in recent years. »»

Authors: Dr Ganesh Nana, Fiona Stokes and Adrian Slack Client:  Maori Television Date: March 2009 This study was commissioned by Maori Television to estimate their contribution to the New Zealand economy. Maori Television began broadcasting in March 2004 and launched a second channel, Te Reo, in March 2008. Using a conventional economic impact assessment multiplier approach, the total economic impact of Maori Television and its »»

Client: The Ministry of Health and ACC Authors: Adrian Slack, Dr Ganesh Nana, Michael Webster, Fiona Stokes and Jiani Wu Date: July 2009 This research estimates the social costs of harmful alcohol and other drug use, excluding tobacco, in New Zealand.  Harms related to drug use include a wide range of crime, lost output, health service use and other diverted resources.  Harmful use has both opportunity costs, which divert »»

Client: Enterprise Ashburton Authors: David Norman, Jason Leung-Wai and Dr Ganesh Nana Date: March 2009 The profile looked at GDP growth for the District. It also considered changes in the tourism, sheep and beef, dairy, arable, and engineering sectors in more detail. Finally, it considered the role of key Ashburton exports in the regional economy, finding that the District punches well above its weight in terms of exports across its key »»

Client: Waitaki Development Board Authors: Michael Webster, David Norman, and Dr Ganesh Nana Date: March 2009  The profile looks at several key performance indicators, and the composition of the local economy. It looks in detail at employment, GDP, labour productivity and business units. The profile also looked at four areas of interest to the District, namely tourism, dairy and sheep, education and housing.  BERL job# »»

Client: Society of Local Government Managers (SOLGM) Authors: Jiani Wu, Dr Ganesh Nana Date: March 2009 The project was commissioned by the Society of Local Government Managers (SOLGM). The report contains forecasts for price level, using data for the December 2008 quarter, change adjustors for local authorities (LAs) to use in their budget processes consistent with their Long-term Council Community Plans (LTCCP). It incorporates the »»

Client: Dunedin City Council Authors: David Norman, Jason Leung-Wai and Dr Ganesh Nana Date: March 2009 The profile looks at several key performance indicators, and the composition of the local economy. It looks in detail at employment, GDP, labour productivity and business units, as well as the largest and fastest-growing industries, location quotients, and six sectors supported by the Economic Development Unit. Analysis is for the »»

Client: The Industry Training Federation Authors: Dr Ganesh Nana, Kel Sanderson, Fiona Stokes and Michael Webster Date: March 2009 This report provides the Industry Training Federation (ITF) with a projection of the labour demand required by New Zealand industry over the medium-to-long term. The current economic outlook is negative and short-term prospects provide grim reading. Over the longer term we expect economic conditions to return to »»

Client: Industry Capability Network Authors: Fiona Stokes and Dr Ganesh Nana Date: February 2009 This report describes a selection of multipliers related to the New Zealand domestic manufacturing industry. These multipliers are calculated from data for the 2007/08 year. It asks: What is the impact of this sector’s annual production (gross output) rising by another $1m? A $1m increase in gross output in the New Zealand domestic »»

Client: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Authors: David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana The purpose of this project was to calculate multipliers for the biotech and biotech-active industry (“the biotech industry”) in New Zealand. This will enable New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) to better understand and assess the impact of the biotech industry on the New Zealand economy. The study found that, in line with international »»