Wei Zhang
Research Analyst
Wei arrived in New Zealand in 2003 from Beijing, China to study at Victoria University of Wellington. Since then, he has gained a BCA degree (majoring in Economics, Money and Finance, and Econometrics) and a BCA degree with 1st class honours majoring in Money and Finance and in Econometrics.
His recently submitted MCA thesis is titled: ‘Estimating the Empirical Capital Asset Pricing Model and its Implication in the Calculation of the Cost of Capital for Regulated Businesses’.
Wei started at Motu in April 2008, where his main occupation is to learn a model - the LURNZv1 model - and to develop its second version. In his spare time he works out every weekday, snorkels, and memorises the vocabulary for the United States’ Graduate Record Examinations (GRE).
Curriculum Vitae (PDF 145kb)
Publications
- Makin, Anthony; Wei Zhang and Grant Scobie. 2008. "The Contribution of Foreign Borrowing to the New Zealand Economy," Treasury Working Paper 08/03.
Todd, Maribeth; Wei Zhang and Suzi Kerr. 2009. "Competition for land between biofuels, pastoral agriculture and scrub lands," in Bioenergy options for New Zealand: analysis of large-scale bioenergy from forestry. Peter Hall and Michael Jack. Scion report. pp. 122-40. Available online at http://www.scionresearch.com/bioenergy+report.aspx.
Kerr, Suzi and Wei Zhang. 2009. "Allocation of New Zealand Units within Agriculture in the New Zealand Emissions Trading System," Motu Working Paper 09-16.
Baisden, Troy; Levente Timar; ED Keller; Duncan Smeaton; A Clark; David Austin; William Power and Wei Zhang. 2010. "New Zealand's Pasture Production in 2020 and 2050," GNS Science Consultancy Report 2010/154.
Kerr, Suzi; Levente Timar and Wei Zhang. 2010. "Emissions Trading for Forestry and Agriculture: Policy Design and Integrated Simulations in New Zealand," poster at the Analysis, Integration and Modelling of Earth Systems Open Science Conference, Edinburgh, UK.
Kerr, Suzi; William Power and Wei Zhang. 2009. "Potential Scrub Changes and Its Spatial Allocation Under the New Zealand Emission Trading System," in The XXVII International Conference of Agricultural Economists, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China.
Kerr, Suzi; Wei Zhang and William Power. 2010. "Short Term Effects of Moderate Carbon Prices on Land Use in the New Zealand Emissions Trading System: LURNZ-Climate Land Use Change Simulations," New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference, Nelson, 26-7 August 2010.
Shepherd, James D.; Anne M. Sutherland; Ian Payton; Suzi Kerr; Wei Zhang and William Power. 2008. "Nature and Scale of Eligible Post-1989 Non-Planted Forests," Landcare Research Contract Report: LC809/033.