Chris Bloor
Manager Policy Analysis, Economics Directorate
Biography
Chris is the Manager of the Policy Analysis team in the Economics Department.
Chris has been at the Reserve Bank since 2005 and has worked in several roles during this time. From 2009-2020 he worked in the financial stability area of the Reserve Bank where he was instrumental in the design and implementation of loan to value ratio restrictions and led the development of the bank stress testing programme and production of the Financial Stability Report.
Chris rejoined the Economics department in late 2020, and in his current role is responsible for maintaining the frameworks under which monetary policy operates and for providing advice on monetary policy strategy to the Monetary Policy Committee. With his team, he led the recent review of the MPC’s Remit and Charter.
Email: [email protected]
Current policy interests
- Monetary policy strategy
- Coordination of monetary policy with fiscal and financial stability policy
Recent publications
- Supporting New Zealand's economic stability - Toitu te Ohanga
- Bloor, C; Knowles, K; Nicholls, K (2020) “Outcomes from a COVID-19 stress test of New Zealand banks” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, September 2020, Vol. 83, No 3