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- John Gibson, Department of Economics, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato
- Grant Scobie, The Treasury
- Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ivan Tuckwell for assistance with the data and to two anonymous referees and seminar participants at the Treasury, the University of Waikato and the New Zealand Association of Economists Conference in Christchurch for helpful comments.