Karsten Chipeniuk
Adviser, Economics Directorate
Biography
Karsten is an Adviser in the Research and Analytics team in the Economics Department. Karsten joined the Reserve Bank in July 2017. Prior to this, he completed his PhD in economics from Indiana University in the United States.
Karsten’s main fields of interest include heterogeneous agent macroeconomics, computational economics, and financial time series. While at the Reserve Bank, he has contributed to work on distributional effects of monetary policy in New Zealand, interaction between monetary and fiscal policies, and understanding the macroeconomic consequences of climate change and the transition to a net zero economy. He has published in international journals including the European Economic Review, the Journal of Macroeconomics, and Computational Economics.
Previously Karsten completed a PhD in mathematics at the University of British Columbia, Canada and worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology and Indiana University.
Email: [email protected]
Current research interests
- Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics
- Monetary Fiscal Interactions
- Macroeconomic Impacts of Climate Change
Recent publications
- Chipeniuk, K, Katz, N and Walker, T (2022) “Households auctioneers, and aggregation” European Economic Review, January 2022, Vol 141.
- Chipeniuk, K and Nolan, G (2022) “Monetary Policy Easing and the Distribution of Wealth in New Zealand” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Note, January 2022, AN2022/01.
- Chipeniuk, K and Walker, T (2021) “Forward inflation expectations: Evidence from inflation caps and floors” Journal of Macroeconomics, December 2021, Vol 70.