The contents of New Zealand Economic Papers, Volume 49, Issue 2, 2015 (available online or by subscription):

• Asian stock markets, US economic policy uncertainty and US macro-shocks by Michael Donadelli
• The short-run nationwide macroeconomic effects of the Canterbury earthquakes by Lisa Doyle & Ilan Noy
• The effects of unemployment rate fluctuations on private health insurance coverage in New Zealand by David Chamberlain & Andrea Kutinova Menclova
• Monetary policy and interest rates under inflation targeting in Australia and New Zealand by Hakan Berument & Richard T. Froyen
• Revenue-maximising tax rates and elasticities of taxable income in New Zealand by John Creedy & Norman Gemmell