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35 years after the inception of inflation-targeting, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua will host a research conference in Wellington on 6-7 March 2025 to understand the challenges to flexible inflation targeting and the opportunities to polish it further in the post-pandemic world. Dr. Ben Bernanke and Dr. Catherine Mann will give the keynote addresses.
We invite empirical as well as applied theory papers relevant for monetary policy-making covering focus areas including but not limited to:
• Global value chains, supply shocks and inflation
• Monetary policy and structural change
• The use of high-frequency data for monetary policy analysis
• Transmission of alternative monetary policy tools
• The role of inflation expectations in monetary policy transmission
• Assessing monetary policy mandates
• The interaction between fiscal and monetary policy
• The financial stability implications of monetary policy
• Neutral interest rates in small open economies
• Asset market dynamics and monetary policy
• External shocks and their implications for small open economies
Important dates
1 November 2024: Email complete manuscripts to conference2025@rbnz.govt.nz
3 December 2024: Acceptance notification
7 February 2025: Final versions of papers due
6-7 March 2025: Conference
2 The Terrace
6011 Wellington , New Zealand
