Assistant Governor and Head of Economics
Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

John is the Assistant Governor and Head of Economics at the Reserve Bank.

He has held posts at Victoria University of Wellington, the International Monetary Fund and National Bank of New Zealand.

He has also spent time as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and taught at the World Bank Institute.

He gained a BSc and MCom from the University of Auckland and a PhD from Yale University.

Current research interests:

• Monetary policy
• Business cycles
• Commodity prices

Recent Publications:

• “Is there an unobserved components common cycle for Australasia? Implications for a Common Currency,” (with V. B. Hall), New Zealand Economic Papers, Forthcoming.

• “A Quarterly post-Second World War real GDP Series for New Zealand,” (with V. B. Hall), New Zealand Economic Papers, 45, 3, 2011, 273-298.

• “Unobserved Components Business Cycles for New Zealand. What Are They, and What Might Drive Them?” (with V. B. Hall), Economic Record, 2011, 87, 294-317.

• “The New Zealand Business Cycle,” (with V. B. Hall), Econometric Theory, 2009, 25, 1050-1069.