Professor John Gibson
Professor of Economics
Keywords
Development Economics, Economic Modeling and Econometrics, Industrial Economics, Information and communication technology, Labour Economics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Qualitative Research, Urban and Regional Economics.
Contact Details
Email: jkgibson@waikato.ac.nzRoom: MSB.2.15
Phone: +64 7 838 4289
Papers Taught
About John
Professor John Gibson previously taught at the University of Canterbury, and the Economics Department and Center for Development Economics at Williams College. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University he has worked in the following countries: Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. His teaching and research interests are in microeconomics and in the micro econometric aspects of development, labour and the international economy. His other research interests include poverty measurement, where he was a member of an expert group advising the United Nations Statistical Division,and the design and analysis of household survey data, and economic development, especially in China and other Asian and Pacific economies.
Research Interests
Development, labour and the international economy,
Microeconomics,
Panel econometrics,
Poverty analysis.
Recent Publications
Gibson, J. (2019). Aggregate and distributional impacts of China’s household responsibility system. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, online, 16 pages. doi:10.1111/1467-8489.12329
Li, C., Gibson, J., & Boe-Gibson, G. (2019). Regional inequality in urban China, allowing for spatial cost of living differences: Evidence from a hedonic analysis of apartment prices. Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 6(2), 170-185. doi:10.1002/app5.272
Bai, Y., Deng, X., Gibson, J., Zhao, Z., & Xu, H. (2019). How does urbanization affect residential CO2 emissions? An analysis on urban agglomerations of China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 209, 876-885. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.248
Gibson, J., & Kim, B. (2019). Quality, quantity, and spatial variation of price: Back to the bog. Journal of Development Economics, 137, 66-77. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.11.008
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