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Research Team Email:
firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz
Biography:
Richard is a Senior Adviser in the Research team. His current research
interest is in describing and understanding the performance of firms, and the
application of this understanding to issues of public policy. Richard is an
Affiliate of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, and has been a member of
the Foundation for Research, Science & Technology’s SET Advisory
Group since its inception. Prior to working at the Reserve Bank, he was a
Chief Adviser at the Ministry of Economic Development and, before that, worked
for Tokyo-Mitsubishi International in London, and the New Zealand Treasury.
Richard holds a doctorate from the University of Waikato in Applied Mathematics
(Magnetohydrodynamics), where his thesis entailed modelling solar flares.
Current research interests:
- Firm objectives, organization, and behaviour
- Microeconomic analyses of economic development, particularly using
Statistics New Zealand’s prototype Longitudinal
Business Database
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Selected publications:
- Fabling, Richard & Grimes, Arthur (2008) “Over
the Hedge? Exporters' Optimal
and Selective Hedging Choices”, RBNZ
Discussion Paper 2008/14
- Fabling, Richard; Gretton, Julia & Powell, Claire (2008) “Developing
the Prototype Longitudinal Business Database: New
Zealand's Experience”, Statistics New Zealand Research
Paper
- Fabling, Richard; Grimes, Arthur; Sanderson, Lynda & Stevens, Philip
(2008) “Some
Rise by Sin, and Some by Virtue Fall: Firm Dynamics, Market Structure and
Performance”, MED Occasional Paper 08/01
- Fabling, Richard & Grimes, Arthur (2008) “Do
Exporters Cut the Hedge? Who Hedges, When and Why?”, MED Occasional
Paper 08/02
- Fabling, Richard & Sanderson, Lynda (2008) “Firm
Level Patterns in Merchandise Trade”, MED Occasional Paper 08/03
- Fabling, Richard; Grimes, Arthur & Stevens, Philip (2008) “A
Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Firm Performance Measures”,
MED Occasional Paper 08/04
- Fabling, Richard & Grimes, Arthur (2007) “HR
Practices and New Zealand Firm Performance: What Matters and Who Does
It?”, MED Occasional Paper 07/02 (forthcoming in the
International Journal of Human Resource Management)
- Fabling, Richard (2007) “How Innovative
are New Zealand Firms? Quantifying & Relating Organisational
and Marketing Innovation to Traditional Science
& Technology Indicators”, in Science, Technology and
Innovation Indicators in a Changing World: Responding to Policy Needs,
OECD: Paris
- Crawford, Ron; Fabling, Richard; Grimes, Arthur & Bonner, Nick (2007)
“National R&D and Patenting: Is New Zealand an Outlier?”, New
Zealand Economic Papers 41(1), 69-90
- Fabling, Richard & Grimes, Arthur (2007) “Practice
Makes Profit: Business Practices and Firm Success”, Small Business
Economics 29(4), 383-399
- Fabling, Richard & Grimes, Arthur (2005) “Insolvency
and Economic Development: Regional Variation and Adjustment”, Journal
of Economics & Business 57(4), 339-359
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