Oxley’s research focuses on the fields of economic growth, economic history, well-being, sustainability, financial econometrics, research on the effects of COVID19 on the economy, and econometrics. He is an applied economist who combines time series econometric methods with economic and historical knowledge to consider questions such as why countries grow at different rates and whether growth and wellbeing are sustainable.
He publishes in fields including econometric theory and methods; innovation; well-being; sustainable development; and the Chinese economy. Some of his research outputs focus on the measurement, modeling and analysis of economic growth, well-being and sustainability, where it has been published in top field journals. The research uses extensive historical spans of data, and new methods developed as part of this ongoing research, which the premier New Zealand contestable “Marsden Fund” and the UK Leverhulme Trust fund. These papers are a novel area of academic work, and have underpinned aspects of the NZ Treasury’s policy design and advice.
