Martin Berka Department of Economics and Finance Massey University Private Bag 102 904 Auckland, New Zealand ph: ++64 9 414 0800 ext. 9474 fx: ++64 9 441 8177

I am a senior lecturer in economics at Massey University. My primary research interests lie in international finance and trade, open macroeconomics and monetary economics. I am also a research associate of the Centers for International Price Research.

C.V.

Teaching (current teaching schedule)
Econ 178.308 - Advanced Macroeconomics
Fin 125.785 - Research Methods in Finance

Economics / Finance Brown Bag Seminars

Research
Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle as a Trade Phenomenon (Ph.D. thesis), and matlab files related to chapter 1 of my dissertation

General Equilibrium Model of Arbitrage Trade and Real Exchange Rate Persistence

Non-linear Adjustment in International Prices and Physical Characteristics of Goods, published in Review of International Economics, Vol 17 (1), 2009.

Basle Accord and Financial Intermediation: The Impact of Policy (with Christian Zimmermann, see long abstract)

What Determines European Real Exchange Rates? (with Michael B. Devereux, first draft)

The Consumption Terms of Trade and Commodity Prices (with Mario J. Crucini, first draft)

Credit Crunch as an Optimal Decision of Risk-Averse Banks under Uncertainty

Funding of regions in New Zealand

Concordances between

• 6-digit IO codes and 4-digit US SIC 1987 codes. Constructed for translating 6-digit US Input-Output tables for years 1971, 1977, 1982, 1987 and 1992 into SIC 87. The second column denotes a weight (assumed equal across all SIC industries in a particular row).
• 4-digit US SIC 1987 codes and 4-digit ISIC (rev. 3) codes. Same, aggregated to 2-digits.
• 4-digit ISIC (rev. 3) codes and 5-digit SITC (rev. 3) codes. Same, aggregated into 2-digit ISIC (rev.3) and 2-digit SITC (rev.3)

Note: second column denotes a weight (assumed equal across all industries in a particular row

Restructuring the Banking Sector in Slovakia (M.A. thesis), with defense notes (all you really need to know, encrypted)

Research reports and theses of students I supervised:

• Is globalization operating to reduce inflation: Evidence from 6 OECD countries by Menghan Cai
• The economic relationship between trade and immigration in New Zealand by Mingming Qian
• Explaining exchange rate pass-through to different Asian countries by Xuemei Xiang
• Explaining exchange rate pass-through in different prices by using VAR model in European countries by Fangfang Liang
• Exchange rate pass-through to import prices across industries in New Zealand by Hanshi Lin
• Explaining the persistence of Aus-NZ real exchange rate deviations across industries by Jinhui Zhang

Other
New Economics Papers in Open Macroeconomics (and Open Macro blog)
RePEc - Research Papers in Economics, the largest database of econ literature, free of charge.
Econ academics and Econbrowser

Massey University / Department of Economics and Finance

"A perfection of means and a confusion of aims seems to be our main problem" - Albert Einstein (other quotes)