Andrew Coleman
Senior Fellow
Andrew began at Motu in February 2008, coming from a position as Senior Adviser at the Reserve Bank. He earlier worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, where he taught economic development and international finance. He has also worked at The New Zealand Treasury and the United Building Society. In 2004, he took a 6-month sabbatical at Motu.
Andrew’s work at Motu contributes to research programmes on emissions trading and climate change, transport and housing. The Motu programmes have much in common with his main research interest, the way that storage and transport networks affect the prices of natural resources.
Andrew has a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.
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Publications
Coleman, Andrew; Sylvia Dixon and David C. Maré. 2005. "Maori Economic Development - Glimpses from Statistical Sources," Motu Working Paper 05-13.
- Coleman, Andrew. 2008. "Storage Under Backwardation: A Direct Test of the Wright-Williams Conjecture," Motu Working Paper 08-13.
Coleman, Andrew. 2008. "Inflation and the Measurement of Saving and Housing Affordability," Motu Working Paper 08-09.
Coleman, Andrew. 2008. "Tax, Credit Constraints, and the Big Costs of Small Inflation," Motu Working Paper 08-14.
Coleman, Andrew and Özer Karagedikli. 2008. "The Relative Size of New Zealand Exchange Rate and Interest Rate Responses to News," Motu Working Paper 08-08
Coleman, Andrew. 2008. 'The Hidden Costs of Low Inflation: Savings, Tax and the Dearth of Home Ownership,' Motu Public Policy Seminar, October.
Coleman, Andrew. 2009. "The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Home Production Activity: Evidence from Rural New York, 1825-1845," Motu Manuscript, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Coleman, Andrew. 2008. "The Hidden Costs of Low Inflation: Savings, Tax and the Dearth of Home Ownership," Wellington Public Policy Seminar, October.
Kerr, Suzi and Andrew Coleman. 2008. "Economic regrets," Motu manuscript presented to Cluster B of the Climate Change Leadership Forum, 22 May.
Coleman, Andrew and Grant M. Scobie. 2009. "A Simple Model of Housing Rental and Ownership with Policy Simulations," Motu Working Paper 09-08.
Coleman, Andrew and John Landon-Lane. 2007. "Housing markets and migration in New Zealand, 1962-2006," Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2007/12.
Coleman, A. 2007. "Credit constraints and housing markets in New Zealand," Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2007/11.
Coleman, Andrew and Brian Silverstone. 2007. "Price changes by firms in New Zealand - some evidence from the Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion," Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin 70:3, pp. 18-30.
Coleman Andrew. 2007. "Tradables and non-tradables inflation in Australia and New Zealand," Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin 70:1, pp. 45-53.
Coleman, Andrew. 2001. "Three Perspectives on an Australasian Monetary Union" in David Gruen and John Simon (Eds.) Future Directions for Monetary Policies in East Asia" (Sydney: Reserve Bank of Australia)
Coleman, Andrew. 1999. "Economic Integration and Monetary Union," Treasury Working Paper 99/06.
Coleman, Andrew and Tony Daglish. 1998. "Regional price convergence in Australian and New Zealand, 1984-1996," Treasury Working Paper 98/03.
Coleman, Andrew. 2009. "A model of spatial arbitrage with transport capacity constraints and endogenous transport prices," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91:1, pp. 42-56.
Coleman, Andrew. 2007. "The pitfalls of estimating transactions costs from price data: evidence from trans-Atlantic gold-point arbitrage, 1886 – 1905," Explorations in Economic History, 44:3, pp. 387-410.
Coleman, Andrew. 2009. "The Long Term Effects of Capital Gains Taxes in New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 09-13.
Coleman, Andrew and Arthur Grimes. 2009. "Fiscal, Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Land and Property Taxes," Motu Working Paper 09-14.
Coleman, Andrew and Grant Scobie. 2009. "A Simple Model of Housing Rental and Ownership with Policy Simulations," Treasury Working Paper 09-05.
Coleman, Andrew. April 2010. "Squeezed in and squeezed out: the effects of population ageing on the demand for housing," Motu Working Paper 10-01.
Coleman, Andrew. 2010. "Why Grandma is my Landlord: Population Ageing, Taxes, and their Implications for the Housing Market," Auckland Public Policy Seminar, May.
Coleman, Andrew. 2010. "Uncovering uncovered interest parity during the classical gold standard era, 1888-1905," Motu Working Paper 10-02.
Coleman, Andrew. 2010. "Transport infrastructure, 'lock-out' and urban form," IPS/Motu Infrastructure Workshop, Wellington, July 2010.
Coleman, Andrew and Hugh McDonald. 2010. "'No country for old men”: a note on the trans-Tasman income divide". Motu Working Paper 10-08.
Coleman, Andrew. November 2010. "Transport infrastructure, lock-out, and urban form: Highway development in Auckland and the United States," Motu Note #4.
Coleman, Andrew. 2010. "Transport Infrastructure, Lock-Out and Urban Form: Highway Development in Auckland and the United States", Policy Quarterly, 6:4, pp. 23-7. Available online at http://ips.ac.nz/publications/publications/show/306
Coleman, Andrew. 2010. "The Long Term Impact of Capital Gains Taxes in New Zealand", New Zealand Economic Papers, 44:2, pp. 159-77.
Coleman, Andrew. 2011. "Financial Contracts and the Management of Carbon Emissions in Small Scale Plantation Forests," Motu Working Paper 11-04. Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Coleman, Andrew. 2011. "Mandatory Retirement Income Schemes, Saving Incentives, and KiwiSaver," Motu Note #6, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Coleman, Andrew. 2011. "Behavioural Economics: Implications for the Savings Literature," Motu Note #7, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Coleman, Andrew. 2011. "PAYGO v SAYGO: Prefunding Government-Provided Pensions," Motu Note #8, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Maré, David C., Andrew Coleman and Ruth Pinkerton. 2011. "Patterns of Population Location in Auckland," Motu Working Paper 11-06, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Maré, David C., and Andrew Coleman. 2011. "Estimating the Determinants of Population Location in Auckland," Motu Working Paper 11-07, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington
Maré, David C., and Andrew Coleman. 2011. "Patterns of Business Location in Auckland," Motu Working Paper 11-08, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Coleman, Andrew, 2011. "Price Discounting in New Zealand," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011. Available online from http://www.nzae.org.nz/conferences/2011/programme.html.
McDonald, Hugh, and Andrew Coleman. 2011. "No Country for Old Men: Trans-Tasman Income Patterns, 1981-2009," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011.
Coleman, Andrew, and David C. Maré. 2011. "Preferences, Location Choices and the Residential Composition of Cities," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011. Available online from http://www.nzae.org.nz/conferences/2011/programme.html.
Maré, David C., and Andrew Coleman. "Patterns of Business Location in Auckland," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011.
Coleman, Andrew. 2011. "Saving New Zealand: Pay-As-You-Go versus Save-As-You-Go Superannuation Schemes," Motu Research Update 20, p. 8.
- Maré, David C., and Andrew Coleman. 2011. "The Determinants of Firm Location in Auckland," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011.
- Coleman, Andrew. 2011. "Uncovering Uncovered Interest Parity during the Classical Gold Standard Era, 1888-1905," Otago University, Dunedin, 16 September 2011.
- Coleman, Andrew. 2011. "Saving, Private and Public: Do New Zealanders Need Rescuing from Financial Oblivion?" Presentation to the National Council of Women (Otago Branch), Dunedin, 5 October 2011.
- Coleman, Andrew. 2011. "Property Prices, Wealth and the Intergenerational Consequences of Capital Gains Taxes," New Zealand Treasury, Wellington, 2 September 2011.
Maré, Dave, and Andrew Coleman. 2011. "Patterns of Population Location in Auckland," Motu Research Update 21, pp. 1-2.