Les Oxley, a distinguished Fellow of MSSANZ, was elected one of the 12 new Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2004.
The RSNZ citation reads as follows:
"Professor Leslie T. Oxley, Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, and Adjunct Professor, University of Western Australia, is recognised internationally for the advances he has made in econometric modelling and testing, particularly as applied to studies of industrialization, economic growth and the measurement of human capital. His work is at the forefront of research using modern time series econometric methods to advance understanding of both unique historical events - for example, the British Industrial Revolution - and current issues of central importance, including the determinants of economic growth and the measurement of human capital.
Leslie Oxley has used novel statistical methods to substantiate and refine measures of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and his outstanding combinations of statistical, mathematical, economic and historiographical skills to create major resources of new time series data for Australia and New Zealand. A unique characteristic of his research, which is published in the leading international journals in economics, economic history and econometrics, is the ability to create advanced research methods derived from econometrics, statistics and mathematics to resolve important controversial issues in economics and economic history.
Leslie Oxley is an outstanding scholar whose innovative research has had a significant impact on his profession.
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