This paper provides a framework with which to analyse growth in a small economy with perfect capital mobility. It provides a diagrammatic representation of steady states which differs in interesting and important ways from the usual closed-economy Solow-Swan diagram. The paper also analyses...

This paper reviews the origins of the 2 per percent rule, arguing that existing evidence for the rule is not as strong as is often supposed and that in any case it can be a misleading guide to the payoff period in policy applications. In the context of a postulated change in the rate of increase...

Recent reforms in New Zealand have focused attention on the achievement of well-specific objectives for monetary and fiscal policy. The Reserve Bank Act requires that monetary policy be directed towards maintenance of inflation in the 0-2 per cent range. The Fiscal Responsibility Act specifies a...