Reserve Bank Bulletin
The Reserve Bank Bulletin is published quarterly and canvasses a wide range of issues related to both central banking and the New Zealand economy. On the record speeches of the Governor and Deputy Governors also feature regularly.
Accessing the Bulletin
There are a number of ways you can find Bulletin articles:
- Browse Author or Title lists of Reserve Bank Bulletin articles and Discussion Papers
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- The current year's Reserve Bank Bulletin articles are listed below
- View earlier Bulletins from 1980 to 2006
All articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You can download the free Acrobat PDF reader from the Adobe website.
2008
September
September 2008, (vol 71, no 3) get the entire volume, and view abstracts and PDFs of the editor's note and articles.
- Complete volume (PDF 1.2MB)
- Editor's note (PDF 133KB)
- Flexibility and the limits to inflation targeting (PDF 381KB) by Alan Bollard and Tim Ng
- Inflation in New Zealand's trading partner economies (PDF 260KB) by Satish Ranchhod
- The costs of inflation - what have we learned? (PDF 124KB) by David Gillmore
- Events precede ideas: Bob Gordon on macroeconomics (PDF 100KB) Interview conducted by Emmanuel De Veirman and Tim Ng
- Financial turmoil and global imbalances: the end of Bretton Woods II? (PDF 153KB) by Chris Hunt
- A user's guide to credit ratings (PDF 76KB) by Doug Widdowson and Andy Wood
June
June 2008, (vol 71, no 2) get the entire volume, and view abstracts and PDFs of the editor's note and articles.
- Complete volume (PDF 4MB)
- Editor's note (PDF 88KB)
- Some perspectives on past recessions (PDF 381KB) by Michael Reddell and Cath Sleeman
- The changing transmission mechanism of New Zealand monetary policy (PDF 188KB) by Rishab Sethi
- The relationship between financial stability and monetary policy (PDF 116KB) by Leni Hunter
- The themes and thinking behind New Zealand's 1967 decimal coin designs (PDF 3.1MB) by Matthew Wright
- Establishing technical specifications for New Zealand's new 10 cent, 20 cent and 50 cent coins (PDF 254KB) by Don Oliver
March
March 2008, (vol 71, no 1) get the entire volume, and view abstracts and PDFs of the editor's note and articles.
- Complete volume (PDF 525KB)
- Editor's note (PDF 87KB)
- The use of money and credit measures in contemporary monetary policy (PDF 141KB) by Chris Bloor, Chris Hunt, Tim Ng and Hamish Pepper
- Recent trends and developments in currency (PDF 223KB) by Alan Boaden
- The Reserve Bank, private sector banks and the creation of money and credit (PDF 104KB) by Gillian Lawrence
- Future directions for Reserve Bank financial statistics (PDF 74KB) by Rochelle Barrow
- The business cycle, housing and the role of policy: summary of a recent conference held by The Treasury and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (PDF 56KB) by Robert A Buckle and Aaron Drew
- Economic and financial chronology 2007 (PDF 49KB) by Gillian Lawrence
Previous years
- earlier Bulletins from 1980 to 2007. PDFs of complete volumes and individual articles are available.
