Professorial Fellowship in Monetary and Financial Economics Past fellows - public lectures and research

Mr Gordon Thiessen

March 2011, is the former Governor of the Bank of Canada for a term of seven years.

Public lecture presentation:
Presentation:

Professor Charles Goodhart

January 2010, is a member of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics.

Public lecture presentation: The Role of Macro-Prudential Supervision
Presentation: Money, Credit and Bank Behaviour: Need for a New Approach (PDF 813KB)

Professor Michael Bordo

May – July 2009, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Public lecture presentation: Global Shocks, Global Financial Crises: How can small open economies like New Zealand protect themselves? An Historical Perspective (2.19MB)
Presentation: An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007 – 2008 (PDF 136KB)

Professor Eric Leeper

September – November 2008, Professor of Economics at the Indiana University. He also holds positions as a director of the Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Research at the Indiana University

Presentation: Fiscal Foresight: Analytics and Econometrics (PDF 440KB)

Professor Richard J. Herring

February – March & August – September 2006, Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking, at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Public lecture paper: Booms and Busts in Housing Markets - How Vulnerable is NZ? (PDF 333KB)
Presentation: House Prices, Mortgage Lending and Vulnerability to Financial Crises (PDF 494KB)

Professor Edward J Kane

Jan – March 2005, James F. Cleary Chair in Finance at Boston College.

Public lecture paper: Confronting Divergent Interests in Trans-Tasman Regulatory Arrangements. (PDF 72KB)
Public lecture presentation: Confronting Divergent Interests in Trans-Tasman Regulatory Arrangements. (PDF 720KB)
Presentation: Can We Breed Fiercer Watchdog Institutions For Use In Corporate Governance? (PDF 72KB)
Participation in Workshop: Workshop on Banking Crisis Management at the Reserve Bank on 3 March 2005

Professor George G Kaufman

March – May 2004, John F Smith, Jr. Professor of Economics and Finance, Loyola University Chicago

Public lecture: Banking regulation and foreign owned banks

Professor Kenneth West

January – June 2003, Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin

Public lecture: Monetary policy and the volatility of real exchange rates in New Zealand

Professor Matthew Shapiro

January - April 2003, Professor Economic Department. Senior Research Scientist - Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

Public lecture: Has the rate of economic growth changed? Evidence and lessons for public policy

Professor Takatoshi Ito

February 2002, Hitosubashi University

Public lecture: Toward New International Financial Architecture: an Asian perspective

Professor Peter B Kenen

February - March 2002, Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance Princeton University

Public lecture: The International Financial Architecture - old issues and new initiatives

Professor Michael Woodford

1 June – 30 June 2000, Harold H Helm ’20 Professor of Economics and Banking Princeton University

Public lecture: “Information technology and future of monetary policy”
Research: Business cycle modelling and the theory of monetary policy

Professor Andrew K Rose

11 November - 18 December 1998, Haas School of Business Administration University of California, Berkeley

Public lecture: “Limited currency crises and contagion: is there a case for an Asian Monetary Fund?”
Research: “Limited currency crises and contagion: is there a case for an Asian Monetary Fund?” Victoria Economic Commentaries, 16(1), July 1999.
“Noise trading and exchange rate regimes”, Graduate School of Business & Government Management Working Paper, February 1999.

Professor Lars Svensson

16 October - 27 November 1997 Institute for International Economic Studies Stockholm University

Public lecture: “Inflation targeting in an open economy: strict or flexible inflation targeting?”
Research: “Inflation targeting in an open economy: strict or flexible inflation targeting?” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper G97/8, November 1997 and in Victoria Economic Commentaries, 15(1), March 1998.

Professor Laurence Ball

30 May - 7 December 1996, Johns Hopkins University

Public lecture: “A proposal for the next macroeconomic reform”
Research: “A proposal for the next macroeconomic reform”, Victoria Economic Commentaries, 14(1), March 1997.
“Efficient rules for monetary policy”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper G97/3, January 1997.

Dr. Ralph Bryant

15 January - 16 March and 16 April - 6 June 1996, Brookings Institution

Public lecture: “Central Bank independence, fiscal responsibility and the goals of macroeconomic policy: an American perspective on the New Zealand experience”
Research: “Alternative rules for monetary policy and fiscal policy in New Zealand: a preliminary assessment of stabilisation properties”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper G96/3, July1996.

Professor Bennett T McCallum

22 March - 23 June 1995, Carnegie-Mellon University

Public lecture: “Monetary Economics and the New Zealand Monetary Experiment”
Research: “Monetary economics and the New Zealand monetary experiment”, Victoria Economic Commentaries, 12(2), September 1995.
“New Zealand's monetary policy arrangements: some critical issues”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper G95/4, June 1995.