Adam Richardson
Senior Manager, Economic Directorate
Biography
Adam is a Senior Manager in the Economics Department. He joined the Bank in 2007. He has spent time in a number of roles across the Economics and Financial Markets Departments and has been a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee. 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.
Email: [email protected]
Current research interests
- Monetary policy transmission
- Machine learning applications
- Macro modelling
Recent publications
- Richardson, A, Mulder, T and Vehbi, T (2021) “Nowcasting GDP using machine-learning algorithms: A real-time assessment” International Journal of Forecasting, Volume 37, Issue 2, 941-948
- Richardson, A, Culling, J, Jacob, P, Truong, E and Vehbi, T (2019) “Have the effects of monetary policy on inflation and economic activity in New Zealand changed over time?” (PDF, 1MB) Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Note, August 2019, AN2019/10
- 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, AN2017/06
- 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 and 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 and 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 2015/0