Speech to the Auckland Employers and Manufacturers Association, 6 August 2012 Alan Bollard and Michael Reddell

This article reproduces the paper for a speech given by Governor Alan Bollard on 30 July 2008. We argue that New Zealand’s flexible inflation-targeting framework serves the economy well, but one should not to ask too much of it. Inflation targeting is the best approach New Zealand and many...

Speech to the Auckland Employers and Manufacturers Association, 6 August 2012 Alan Bollard and Michael Reddell

This article reproduces the paper for a speech given by Governor Alan Bollard on 30 January 2009 to the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, Christchurch, New Zealand. It discusses the causes and consequences of the credit boom this decade in developed Western economies, the policy...

[fre] L’article porte sur la politique de la Banque de réserve de Nouvelle-Zélande en matière d’externalisation des activités bancaires. Les banques néo-zélandaises externalisent de plus en plus une partie importante de leurs activités commerciales à des prestataires de services qui...

The Taylor Rule is often used to describe simply how central banks adjust short-term interest rates in response to economic conditions. We use this approach to analyse monetary policy in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States since the early 1990s. We find that the response of monetary...

Some simple cross-country comparisons of exchange rate volatility are presented, suggesting that New Zealand's exchange rate has been more volatile than those of many of its peers. The note also discusses possible reasons for the volatility, and possible policy responses

The Policy Targets Agreement (PTA) frames monetary policy conduct. It sets out New Zealand's approach to 'flexible' inflation targeting, which seeks to maintain price stability over the medium term while accommodating, to some degree, shocks that can cause unnecessary economic volatility. A new...

We look at how large international datasets can improve forecasts of national activity. We use the case of New Zealand, an archetypal small open economy. We apply "data-rich" factor and shrinkage methods to tackle the problem of efficiently handling hundreds of predictor data series from many...

The financial crisis and economic recession, and policymakers' responses to these events, have raised sovereign risk concerns in a number of advanced economies. This has increased the cost and reduced the stability of funding for banks. It has also meant that decisions about the maturity of...