Paul Hansen

BCom PGDipCom (Otago) MEc (ANU) PhD (Otago)

These days Paul works mainly in areas related to priority-setting and resource allocation, especially in the health sector. The co-inventor of "1000Minds" software (see below), Paul is very interested in working with other researchers and students at applying 1000Minds to a wide variety of decision-making problems. Paul's teaching includes intermediate microeconomics, health economics and 'managerial economics' for Otago's MBA.

Contact Details

Office CO727
Tel 64 3 479 8547
Email paul.hansen@otago.ac.nz

Current Teaching

• MBA
• ECON201
• ECON271

Paul Hansen's C.V.

Download a copy of Paul's current CV in PDF format.

Decision Making Software

Co-invented with F Ombler, "1000Minds" software (www.1000minds.com) is for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Conjoint Analysis. 1000Minds implements the 'PAPRIKA' method, which is an acronym for 'Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives' (to learn more, see the fourth reference below or search for 'PAPRIKA' on Wikipedia). As well as commercial applications, 1000Minds is used for teaching and research at dozens of universities worldwide –see www.1000minds.com/researchers. For a trial or to apply for an academic award, visit www.1000minds.com

Software for Ranking University Majors

Co-invented with F Ombler, J Moller, C Kasper and A Gilks, "No Major Drama" (www.nomajordrama.co.nz) is free Internet-based software to help students learn about majors for Bachelor degrees from across all eight New Zealand universities. Applying the PAPRIKA method mentioned above, No Major Drama enables users to create their own personalised rankings of almost 200 major subject areas – e.g. Accounting, Music, Zoology, etc – representing over 700 specific majors for Bachelor degrees from across all eight NZ universities.

Selected Publications

"A preference-based approach to deriving breeding objectives: applied to sheep
breeding" (with T Byrne, P Amer, P Fennessy & B Wickham), Animal 6, 2012, 778-88.

"Health technology prioritization: Which criteria for prioritizing new technologies and
what are their relative weights?" (with O Golan, G Kaplan & O Tal), Health Policy 102, 2011
126-35.

"Economic evaluation of a community-based obesity prevention program in children:
the APPLE project" (with K McAuley, R Taylor, V Farmer, S Williams, C Booker & J
Mann), Obesity 18, 2010 131-6.

"A new method for scoring multi-attribute value models using pairwise rankings of alternatives" (with F Ombler), Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 15, 2009, 87-107

"A 'new and improved' EQ-5D valuation questionnaire? Results from a pilot study" (with N Devlin, P Herbison & S Macran), The European Journal of Health Economics 6, 2005, 73-82.

Keeping Economics Real: New Zealand Economic Issues (edited with A King), Auckland: Pearson, 2004, 215 pp.

"Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' health state valuations - a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs" (with N Devlin, P Kind & A Williams), Health Economics 12, 2003, 529-544.

"Another graphical proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem", Journal of Economic Education, 33, 2002, 217-235. [pdf 934k]

"Health care expenditure and GDP: panel data unit root test results - comment", (with A King), Journal of Health Economics, 17, 1998, 377-381.

"The determinants of health care expenditure: a cointegration approach", (with A King), Journal of Health Economics, 15, 1996, 127-137.

"Inference on productivity differentials in multi-sector models of economic growth", (with R Alexander and D Owen), Journal of Development Economics, 51, 1996, 315-325.

"Uncertain income, uncertain taxes and Ricardian equivalence", Bulletin of Economic Research 48, 1996, 317-28.

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