Speech delivered to the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, Christchurch, 28 January 2011.

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.

An authoritative insider's perspective, this book penned by the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand chronicles the global financial and economic meltdown. A well-researched and dynamic firsthand account, it captures the drama of the events-from the overheated markets of 2007 through the...