Research staff profiles – Gunes Kamber

Gunes Kamber

Modelling Team
Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

Gunes joined the Bank in 2009. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Paris School of Economics, University of Paris 1. Gunes was an intern at the OECD in 2004, at the International Monetary Fund in 2007 and at the Bank of England in 2008.

Current research interests:

Monetary policy and DSGE models
Labour market frictions
Transmission of international shocks

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Recent Publications:

Financial frictions and the role of investment specific technology shocks in the business cycle, with Christie Smith and Christoph Thoenissen, CAMA Working Paper, 2012-30

Financial Intermediation and the International Business Cycle: The case of small countries with big banks, with Christoph Thoenissen, CAMA Working Paper, 2011-22

Internationalized Production in a Small Open Economy, with Aurélien Eyquem, Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming

Using estimated models to assess nominal and real rigidities in the United Kingdom, with Stephen Millard, International Journal of Central Banking, forthcoming

The financial accelerator and monetary policy rules, with Christoph Thoenissen, Economics Letters, 115(2), 2012

An estimated small open economy model with frictional unemployment, with Julien Albertini and Michael Kirker, Pacific Economic Review, 17(2), 2012

Inflation dynamics under habit formation in hours, Economics Letters, 108(3), 2010

Understanding Russia's inflation in the post-1998 crisis, with Ritu Basu, Hajime Takizawa and Harm Zebregs. IMF Selected Issues Paper, October 2007

The Turkish Republic and The European Union: A Very Long Engagement, with J. Creel, in Report on the State of the European Union, volume 2, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Jacques Le Cacheux (ed), 2007.
Debt, deficits and inflation on the road to the EU: the case of Turkey, with J.Creel, Revue de l’OFCE, Special Issue “The new EU enlargement”, April, 2004