Session chair: Grant Spencer (Reserve Bank of New Zealand)
Alan Bollard, Governor, Opening comments
A small new Keynesian model of the New Zealand economy
Presented by: Phillip Liu (Reserve Bank of New Zealand)
Discussant: John McDermott (ANZ National Bank)
Mind your Ps and Qs: Improving ARMA forecasts with RBC priors
Presented by: Kirdan Lees (Reserve Bank of New Zealand) and Troy Matheson (Reserve Bank of New Zealand)
Discussant: Stephen Burnell (Victoria University of Wellington)
Session chair: David Hargreaves (Reserve Bank of New Zealand)
Model for analysis and simulations
Presented by: Claudio Soto (Central Bank of Chile) and Juan Pablo Medina (Central Bank of Chile)
Discussant: Aaron Drew (Reserve Bank of New Zealand)
Session chair: Shaun Vahey (Reserve Bank of New Zealand)
Fiscal and trade balances in a model with sticky prices and distortionary taxes
Presented by: Paul McNelis (Fordham University) and Guay Lim (University of Melbourne)
Discussant: Kunhong Kim (Victoria University of Wellington)
A simple, structural and empirical model of the antipodean transmission mechanism
Presented by: Thomas Lubik (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant: Guay Lim (University of Melbourne)
Ramsey fiscal and monetary policy under sticky prices and liquid bonds
Presented by: Timothy Kam (ANU) and Yifan Hu (University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Ana Maria Santacreu (NYU, Reserve Bank of New Zealand)