Adam Richardson

Biography:
Adam is the Manager of the Central Banking Analytics team in the Economics Department. He joined the Bank in 2007 and has also spent time in the Bank’s Forecasting, Policy Analysis and International & Markets Analysis teams. He also spent a year working in Sydney as an economist for an international bank. Adam has an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Otago and is a CFA charterholder.
Current research interests:
- Monetary policy transmission
- Machine learning applications
- Macro modelling
Recent publications:
- Richardson, A; Drought, S and Perry, R (2018) “Aspects of implementing unconventional monetary policy in New Zealand” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, May 2018, Vol. 81, No. 4
- Richardson, A and Wadsworth, A (2017) “A factor model of commodity price co-movements: An application to New Zealand export prices” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Note, November 2017, AN2014/06
- Richardson, A (2016) “Behind the scenes of an OCR decision in New Zealand” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, July 2016, Vol 79, No 11
- Richardson, A, Lewis, M & McDermott, J (2016) “Inflation expectations and the conduct of monetary policy” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, March 2016, Vol 79, No 4
- Richardson, A; Ford, D & Kendall, E (2015) “Evaluating monetary policy”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, November 2015, Vol. 78, No. 7
- Richardson, A and Williams, R (2015), “Estimating New Zealand’s neutral interest rate”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Note, September 2015, AN 2015/05
- Richardson, A (2015), “Can global economic conditions explain low New Zealand inflation?”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Note, May 2015, AN 2015/03
- Richardson, A (2011), “The macroeconomic impact of the Rugby World Cup”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Note, August 2011, AN 2011/01