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Regional and Industry Cycles in Australasia: Implications for a Common Currency
Get PDFIf two countries experience similar cycles, loss in monetary sovereignty following currency union may not be severe. Analysis of cyclical similarity is frequently carried out at the overall industry level, then interpreted with reference to regional industrial structures. By contrast, this paper explicitly incorporates regional industry structure into an examination of Australasian cycles. Since 1991, NZ and Australasian cycles have been highly correlated, but there is little evidence that the NZ cycle has been "caused" by Australian regional or industry cycles. We test whether the NZDAUD exchange rate has insulated NZ from Australian shocks, but find it has not played a major buffering role in response to Australian industry shocks (including mining shocks). Instead, the strongest impacts on the NZDAUD stem from the NZ cycle. An important loss of monetary sovereignty under currency union may therefore arise in response to NZ-specific shocks.
Intra & Inter-Regional Industry Shocks: A New Metric with an Application to Australasian Currency Union
Get PDFWe place regional industry structures at centre stage in currency union analysis, decomposing differences between regional and aggregate cycles into 'industry structure' and 'industry cycle' effects. The industry structure effect indicates whether a region's industry structure causes its cycle to deviate from the aggregate; the industry cycle effect indicates the importance of region-specific shocks in causing a deviation between cycles. We apply the methodology to Australasia. One region, ACT, has a material industry structure effect arising from its heavy central government concentration. No other region has a material industry structure effect; their cycles differ from the aggregate due to region-specific shocks.
The 'Burden' of the feminine: Frank Sargeson's encounter with Katherine Mansfield
No full textThis essay is situated in relation to the critical commonplace that the contrasting literary modes and prose styles of Frank Sargeson and Katherine Mansfield -- of hard-edged realist writing and the miniaturist ‘subjectivist’ writing of impressionism -- laid the foundation for the two traditions in New Zealand prose. I suggest that significant similarities can be found in the writers' artistic orientation, traceable to their critique of colonial culture and society: namely, an aesthetics of fragmentation, resistance to normative gender constructions of colonial society and their use of symbolic modes of representation. Furthermore, I argue that Mansfield can be traced as an intertextual presence in Sargeson’s work, alongside an implied gendered critique of her female voice, values and attitudes, and that he developed his repertoire by adapting her techniques of impressionism and impersonation to his ambivalently gendered viewpoint in order to nuance masculine vulnerability and unrequited love. This specific influence of Mansfield upon Sargeson will be illustrated with reference to his story, ‘A Man and his Wife’ (1939), in which I suggest he surreptitiously draws on Mansfield’s last story, ‘The Canary’ (1923), ‘writing back’ in a rural colonial context and voice to her metropolitan discourse
On display: New essays in cultural studies
No full textThe article reviews the book "On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies," edited by Anna Smith and Lydia Wevers
Recent Writings: Dinah Hawken reads poems with Elizabeth Knox.
No full textRecent Writings, chaired by Lydia Wevers. Dinah Hawken reads 12 short poems, and prose poems, in a session with Elizabeth Knox. Women's Book Festival, Wellington 19/09/1989
Bernice Reubens - Womens Book Festival Wellington
No full textIn a session chaired by Lydia Wevers, English novelist Bernice Reubens talks about writing and answers questions. Women's Book festival, Wellington 20/09/1989. Radio New Zealand recording
An Hour with Murray Bail
No full textAn Hour with Murray Bail, chaired by Lydia Wevers. Australian story writer, novelist, and art critic Murray Bail discusses his work and reads from the novel "Holden's Performance." Radio New Zealand recording, Writers and Readers Week, Wellington 18/03/1990
The New Zealand short story a panel discussion with Fiona Kidman ...[et al.].
No full textAlso with Owen Marshall, Chris Else and Vincent O'Sullivan.Presented at the writers and readers week held during the 2nd New Zealand International Festival of the Arts,Wellington, 18 March 1988.Recorded by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive.Chairperson: Lydia Wevers
Recent Writings: Sue Reidy and Lauris Edmond.
No full textIn a session of "Recent Writings" with Lauris Edmond and Sue Reidy, chaired by Lydia Wevers. Edmond reads the following poems; The Lecture, Rhineland, Worser Bay School, Ward Island, Lake Ontrario, Hydroslide, Break down. Women's Book Festival, Wellington 19/09/1989
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