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Seminars and workshops

The Reserve Bank regularly hosts seminars and workshops in order to foster debate on monetary and financial-system policy and monetary and financial economics more generally. The workshops typically arise in conjunction with Victoria University of Wellington's Professorial Fellowship in Monetary and Financial Economics.

Workshops

Past workshops

Workshops have discussed financial stability and banking, optimal policy rules, monetary policy under uncertainty, whether monetary policy should be forward or backward looking, and exchange rate issues arising from the Asian crisis. Some of the papers from these workshops are available below.


2008

Capital Markets - Workshop; 20 June 2008

2007

The business cycle, housing and the role of policy; 10 & 11 December 2007

2006

Housing, savings, and the household balance sheet; 14 November 2006

Financial Sector Balance Sheets and Vulnerability to Financial Crises; 25 September 2006

Macro econometrics and Model Uncertainty Conference; 27-28 June 2006

Macro Policy Forum; 12 June 2006

The interface between monetary policy and macro modelling; 13-15 March 2006

South Pacific Course on Central Banking; 28 February-2 March 2006

2005

Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models; 12 August 2005

Recent developments in VAR methodology; 20 May 2005

Workshop on Banking Crisis Management; 3 March 2005

2004

Workshop on financial stability and banking; 27 April 2004

2003

Analysing the economy for monetary policy purposes: some key issues; 21 March 2003

2002

The Australasian macroeconomics workshop; 4-5 April 2002

Exchange rate strategies for developed open economies in the new millennium; 19 February 2002

2000

Monetary policy decision making: proactive or reactive workshop held at RBNZ; 8 June 2000

1998

Monetary policy under uncertainty, workshop held at RBNZ; 29-30 June 1998

Seminars

Economics Seminars

The following seminars were given or are scheduled to be given at the Bank. These seminars are open to academic and professional economists. Applications to attend or deliver a seminar should be addressed to the Co-ordinator of Economics Research Network Initiative (ERNI).

Date

Visitor and Affiliation

Seminar




20 Nov 2007

Anthony Richards

Reserve Bank of Australia

Current Australian situation and challenges facing the RBA

25 Oct 2007

William Dewald

Ohio State University

Inflation and Bond Market Inflation Expectations, 1880-2007

12 Oct 2007

Nicolo Spagnolo

Brunel University, London


11 Oct 2007

Andrew Harvey


26 Aug 2007

Doug Laxton

International Monetary Fund

Price-level path targeting

25 Aug 2007

Doug Laxton

International Monetary Fund

Estimating potential output in a DSGE model

24 Aug 2007

Doug Laxton

International Monetary Fund

Does the exchange rate belong in monetary policy rules?

26 July 2007

James Yetman

University of Hong Kong

Monetary Policy and Asset Prices

11 July 2007

Tao Zha

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Regime-switching DSGE models -- how to solve them and how to estimate them.

9 July 2007

Tao Zha

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Bayesian econometrics of learning models.

5 July 2007

Tao Zha

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Conditional Forecasts

2 July 2007

Tao Zha

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

The theory of identification of structural VARs

14 June 2007

Ian Mitchell

DTZ

Recent trends in commercial and industrial property in New Zealand

21 May 2007

Dr Kang

Bank of Korea

Update of the current economic situation in South Korea

7 May 2007

Su Wu

Deakin University, Australia

An Evaluation of the 'Four Pillars' Policy in Australia

2 May 2007

Ryoko Ito

Canterbury honours graduate

Instrument vs. targeting rules in the conduct of monetary policy

19 Apr 2007

William Coleman

ANU Canberra

Why we love nominal bonds

28 Mar 2007

Daria Taglioni

ECB

How the adoption of the Euro affected price volumes and trade volumes in Europe

27 Mar 2007

Ken Kuttner

Oberlin College

Do markets care who chairs the central bank?

6 Mar 2007

Pierre Siklos

Wilfred Laurier University

Central Bank Governance: an analysis of the biggest constitutional crisis ever faced by the Bank of Canada, and its aftermath.

12 Feb 2007

John Landon-Lane

Rutgers University

A Full Information Bayesian Approach to the Evaluation and Estimation of DSGE Models

15 Nov 2006

Luci Ellis

Reserve bank of Australia

Disinflation and the dynamics of mortgage debt

28 Sept 2006

Lyndon Moore

Victoria University of Wellington

How Fundamental is the Pricing of Liquidity?

10 Aug 2006

Stephen Turnovsky

Washington University

Growth and Income Inequality: A Canonical Model

7 Aug 2006

Nektarios Aslanidis

Monash University

Leading Indicator Properties of US High Yield Credit Spreads

1 Aug 2006

David Grimmond

Infometrics

The Macroeconomic Benefits of Monetary Policy Reform in New Zealand

6 July 2006

John McDermott

Victoria University of Wellington

The New Zealand Business Cycle: Return to Golden Days

30 June 2006

Rodney Strachan

Leicester University

Bayesian Analysis of Error Correction Models

29 June 2006

Todd Clark

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

The Predictive Content of the Output Gap for Inflation: Resolving In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Evidence

26 June 2006

Simon Potter

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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19 June 2006

Thomas Lubik

Johns Hopkins University

Empirical Relevance of Lucas Critique

26 May 2006

Larry Christiano

Northwestern University

Assessing Structural VARs

22 May 2006

Yu-Chin Chen

University of Washington

Commodity Currencies and Exchange Rate Predictability: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach

15 May 2006

Simon van Norden

CIREQ, HEC, Montreal

Reliability in Forecasting and Policy Analysis

20 April 2006

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

Central Bank of Chile

Does Inflation Targeting Make a Difference?

7 April 2006

Quentin Grafton

ANU

Total factor productivity, per capita income and social divergence

30 March 2006

James Mitchell

NIESR

A Bayesian Indicator of Manufacturing Output from Qualitative Business Panel Survey Data

20 March 2006

Seppo Honkapohja

Cambridge University

A Review of Models with Learning

10 March 2006

William Dickens

Brookings Institution

The Interaction of Labor Markets and Inflation: Analysis of Micro Data from the International Wage Flexibility Project

7 March 2006

Sweta Saxena

University of Pittsburg

Growth Dynamics: The Myth of Economic Recovery

28 Feb 2006

Roger Bowden

Victoria University of Wellington

The agribusiness cycles and its wavelets by

7 Feb 2006

Emmanuel de Veriman

John Hopkins University

Which non-linearity in the Phillips curve? The absence of accelerating deflation in Japan

1 Feb 2006

Michael Graff

University of Queensland

A multi-sectoral flash indicator for the Swiss business cycle

1 Dec 2005

Alfred Guender

University of Canterbury

Price Level Targeting and Delegation Issue

29 Nov 2005

Jacek B. Krawczyk

Victoria University of Wellington

“Satisficing” Solutions to a Monetary Policy Problem: A Viability Theory Approach

23 Nov 2005

Jan Libich

LaTrobe University

Inflexibility of Inflation Targeting Revisited: Modelling the Anchoring Effect

16 Nov 2005

Yuliya Meshcheryakova Victoria University of Wellington

Macroeconomic Effects of International Outsourcing

19 Oct 2005

Peter Chang

Victoria University of Wellington

Development aid, Steady State Equilibrium, and Endogenously Arising Volatility in a Neoclassical Growth Model

12 Oct 2005

Müge Adalet

Victoria University of Wellington

Current Account Reversals: Always a Problem?

5 Oct 2005

Adrian Pagan

CAMA and ANU

Inventories and the Business Cycle

30 Sept 2005

Begoña Domínguez

University of Auckland

The Time-Consistency of Government Debt and Institutional Restrictions on the Level of Debt

22 Sept 2005

Kylie Smith

Reserve Bank of Australia

Housing and the Household Wealth Portfolio: The Role of Location

19 Sept 2005

David Hendry

Oxford University

Unpredictability and the Foundations of Economic Forecasting

17 Aug 2005

Weshah Razzak

Department of Labour

Income, Productivity and Real Interest Rates: Why are New Zealand and Australia so Different?

12 Aug 2005

Timothy Kam

Australian National University

Ramsey Fiscal and Monetary Policy under Sticky Prices and Liquid Bonds

12 Aug 2005

Thomas Lubik

Johns Hopkins University

A Simple, Structural, and Empirical Model of the Antipodean Transmission Mechanism

12 Aug 2005

Paul McNelis

Fordham University

Fiscal and Trade Balances in a Model with Sticky Prices and Distortionary Taxes

12 Aug 2005

Claudio Soto

Central Bank of Chile

Model for Analysis and Simulations

11 Aug 2005

Debasis Bandyopadhyay

Auckland University

Calibration: A New Econometric Tool for Empirical Macroeconomics

10 Aug 2005

Thomas Lubik

John Hopkins University

An Assessment of Search and Matching Models of Labour Markets

4 Aug 2005

Mark Holmes

Waikato University

Integration or Independence? An Alternative Assessment of Real Interest Rate Linkages

27 July 2005

Thomas Lubik

John Hopkins University

A Bayesian Look at New Open Economy Macroeconomics

26 July 2005

John Williams

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Robust Monetary Policy with Imperfect Knowledge

19 July 2005

John Williams

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty in Micro-Founded Macroeconometric Models

28 June 2005

Stephen Cecchetti

Brandeis University

Changing Inflation Persistence

27 June 2005

Stephen Cecchetti

Brandeis University

Capital Requirement and Optimal Monetary Policy

13 June 2005

Daniel S. Hamermesh

University of Texas at Austin

The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

20 May 2005

Jim Nason

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Identifying the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

20 May 2005

Juan Rubio-Ramirez

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

A,B,C's (and D)'s for Understanding VARs

13 April 2005

Dick Startz

University of Washington

Measuring the NAIRU with Reduced Uncertainty: A Multiple Indicator-Common Component Approach

11 April 2005

Dick Startz

University of Washington

Partial Adjustment as Optimal Response in a Dynamic Brainard Model

21 March 2005

Timo Teräsvirta

Stockholm School of Economics

Non-linear Econometrics

3 March 2005

Dean Hyslop

New Zealand Treasury

Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Panel Data

V. V. Chari

University of Minnesota

A Critique of Structural VARs Using Real Business Cycle Theory