Forecasting Team
Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

Tim currently manages the Forecasting team, which is responsible for producing the projections of economic activity and inflation in the Bank's Monetary Policy Statements. He joined the Bank in 1999, after graduating from Canterbury University and has worked in both the Financial Stability and Economics Departments. Tim had a two year secondment to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Economics Group, returning to New Zealand in July 2006.

Current research interests:

• Economic forecasting
• Macro modelling

Selected publications:

• Schwartz, C, T Hampton, C Lewis and D Norman (2006), ‘A Survey of Housing Equity Withdrawal and Injection in Australia,’ Reserve Bank of Australia Discussion paper.
• Hampton, T, R Philip and D Stephens (2003), ‘Monetary policy communication and uncertainty,’ Reserve Bank Bulletin, June.
• Hampton, T (2002), ‘The role of the Reserve Bank's macro model in the formation of interest rate projections,’ Reserve Bank Bulletin, June.
• Hampton, T (2001), ‘How much do import price shocks matter for consumer prices?’ Reserve Bank Discussion paper, DP2001/06.
• Brookes, A, and T Hampton (2000), ‘The Official Cash Rate one year on,’ Reserve Bank Bulletin, June.
• Hampton, T (2000), ‘Y2K and banking system liquidity,’ Reserve Bank Bulletin, March.
• Hampton, T (1999), ‘Intra-day liquidity and real-time gross settlement - 18 months on,’ Reserve Bank Bulletin, December.