Research Team

Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

Nicolas joined the RBNZ in 2009. He obtained his PhD from Bocconi University in 2009. He is a research associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis.

Current research interests:

Monetary Economics; Labour Economics; Applied Macro-Econometrics.

Research papers:

• “Monetary Policy, Inflation and Unemployment: In Defense of the Federal Reserve” forthcoming in Macroeconomic Dynamics.
• “Matching efficiency and business cycle fluctuations” joint with Francesco Furlanetto, CAMA working paper series 34/2012, July 2012.
• “Mismatch shocks and unemployment during the Great Recession” joint with Francesco Furlanetto, first version September 2011 (under revision).
• “Non-linear macroeconomic reactions to uncertainty shocks in the U.S.” joint with Giovanni Caggiano and Efrem Castelnuovo, preliminary version December 2012
• “Evaluating a monetary business cycle model for the euro area” National Bank of Belgium, wp 173, July 2009.
• “Comparing shocks and frictions in the U.S. and Euro Area business cycles: A frequency-domain DSGE approach” September 2012

Non-technical papers:

• “Matching workers with jobs: How well is the New Zealand labour market doing?” joint with Rebecca Craigie and David Gillmore, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, 75(4), December 2012.
• “Not a jobless recovery, just a slow one” joint with Rebecca Craigie and David Gillmore, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Notes 2012/06, September 2012.
• “Deviations from the Taylor rule and the dual mandate” VOXEU 02/02/2011.