The contents of New Zealand Economic Papers, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2015 (available online or by subscription):

• An analysis of benefit flows in New Zealand using a social accounting framework by Omar Aziz, Nick Carroll & John Creedy
• Recognising and building on freshman students’ prior knowledge of economics by Michael P. Cameron & Steven Lim
• Current trends in economics enrolments at secondary and tertiary level by Stephen Agnew
• Improving the profitability of Waikato dairy farms: Insights from a whole-farm optimisation model by Graeme J. Doole
• Demographic transition and the real exchange rate in Australia: An empirical investigation by Kamrul Hassan, Ruhul Salim & Harry Bloch
• Exchange-rate volatility and commodity trade between the USA and Indonesia by Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Hanafiah Harvey & Scott W. Hegerty