Economics and Finance

Economics and Finance

Dr Philip Meguire

Position

Senior Lecturer

Qualifications

A.B. (Hons.) (Economics) 1976, (Chicago)
M.B.A. 1982
Ph.D. (Business) 1995

Room

 

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 364 2520
Internal Phone: 6520
Email: philip.meguire@canterbury.ac.nz

Postal address:
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

Undergraduate Courses

ECON 325-S2 Macroeconomic Analysis | ECON 327-S1 Economic Analysis of Law

Graduate Courses

ECON 605-S1 Macroeconomics I

Research Interests

  • Dynamics of fiscal policy and viability of borrowing
  • Balance sheet of the American economy

Current Projects

  • Tenure review
  • Can more revenue be generated from the USA corporate income tax?

Recent Publications

“Does tenure review in New Zealand’s South Island give rise to rents?” New Zealand Economic Papers, 2012.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00779954.2011.608247

Boundary Algebra: A Simpler Approach to Basic Logic and Boolean Algebra. 2011, VDM Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-3639367492. 168pp.

"Closing the Deal: Principals, Agents, and Sub-Agents in New Zealand Land Reform", Land Economics, 2010, 86: 467-492.

"The Train Wreck in the American Home Mortgage Industry", Banks and Bank Systems, 2009, 3:78-87.

"Social Security and Personal Saving: 1971 and Beyond," Empirical Economics, 2003, 28: 115-139.

"Social Security and Private Savings," National Tax Journal, 1998, 51: 339-358.