Issues and International Team
Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

Chris supervises the monitoring of the international economic environment and assembles the Bank's forecasts for trading partner growth, inflation and interest rates. He is also the International Financial Institutions (IFI) Liaison Officer for the Economics Department.

Chris joined the Bank in 2002 following a year working at the Ministry of Health. Chris has a PhD in Political Science from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Current research interests:

• Monetary policy and economic growth
• US current account adjustment and global imbalances
• Currency union
• Political economy

Selected publications:

• Hunt, C (2005), “A fresh look at the merits of a currency union”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, December

• Bollard, A and C Hunt (2005), “Monetary policy and economic performance: the experience of New Zealand”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, December

• Eckhold, K and C Hunt (2005), “The Reserve Bank’s New Foreign Exchange Intervention Policy”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, March

• Hunt, C (2004), “Interpreting Clause 4(b) of the Policy Targets Agreement: avoiding unnecessary instability in output, interest rates and the exchange rate”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, June