Marea Sing
Acting Manager Research and Analytics, Economics Directorate
Biography
Marea is currently serving as Acting Manager of the Research and Analytics team, a position she also held in 2023. She has held a range of leadership and advisory roles across the organisation, including Acting Manager of the Modelling team, Adviser in the Forecasting, Modelling and Central Banking Analytics teams, and Principal Adviser in the Data and Information Directorate. Before joining Te Pūtea Matua, she worked at the South African Reserve Bank, where she specialised in macroeconomic modelling and macroprudential policy. Marea holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in Big Data Science from the University of Pretoria.
Email: [email protected]
Current research interests
- Machine-learning and deep-learning
- Granular data
- Microdata
- Distributional impacts of macroeconomic policy
- Structural and empirical macroeconomic modelling
Recent publications
- Sing, M and Zheng, G (2023) “Sectoral Reallocation and Income Growth in the Labour Market During the COVID-19 Pandemic” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Notes, May 2023, AN2023-01
- Sing, M and Bohm, T (2022) “Evaluating the Reserve Bank’s Forecasting Performance” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, Vol. 85, No. 4
- Sing, M and Chatterjee, S (2021) “Measuring systemic risk in South African banks” South African Reserve Bank Working Paper Series, April 2021, WP/21/04
- Sing, M, Nesengani, N and Steinbach, R (2017) “Animal spirits and the hangover in private sector investment” South African Reserve Bank Occasional Bulletin of Economic Notes, January 2017, OBEN/2017/03