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...

An address by Dr Alan Bollard, Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand on 11 August 2005.

An address by Dr Alan Bollard, Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand on 11 August 2005.

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...

An address by Dr Alan Bollard, Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to the New Zealand Credit and Finance Institute on 14 October 2005.