Assistant Governor and Head of Economics
Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

John is the Assistant Governor and Head of Economics at the Reserve Bank.

He has held posts at Victoria University of Wellington, the International Monetary Fund and National Bank of New Zealand.

He has also spent time as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and taught at the World Bank Institute.

He gained a BSc and MCom from the University of Auckland and a PhD from Yale University.

Current research interests:

• Monetary policy
• Business cycles
• Commodity prices

Recent Publications:

• 'The New Zealand Business Cycles', (with Viv B. Hall), accepted for publication in Econometric Theory.
• 'Regional Business Cycles in New Zealand. Do they exist?" What might drive them?' (with Viv B. Hall), Papers in Regional Science, 2007, 86, 167-191.
• 'Parity Reversion in Real Exchange Rates: Fast, Slow or Not at All?' (with P. Cashin) IMF Staff Papers, 2006, 53, 64-89.
• 'Would Adopting the Australian Dollar Provide Superior Monetary Policy in New Zealand', (with A. Drew, V. Hall, and R. St Clair), Economic Modelling, 2004, 21, 949-964.