Issues & International Team
Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

Kirdan is currently the Manager of the Issues and International team having previously held the position of Manager of the Research team in Economics Department.

Current research interests:

• Impact of emerging market economies on New Zealand trade
• The financial crisis and implications for inflation targeting
• Trends and developments within New Zealand’s household sector

Selected publications:

• “Open Economy Forecasting with a DSGE-VAR: Head to head with the RBNZ published forecasts”, joint with Troy Matheson and Christie Smith, forthcoming, International Journal of Forecasting,
• “A happy ‘halfway-house’? Medium term inflation targeting in New Zealand”, joint with Sam Warburton, forthcoming, Journal of International Money and Finance
• (2009), “Uncovering the Hit-list for Small Inflation Targeters: A Bayesian Structural Analysis”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 41(4), pages 583-618.
• (2007), “Mind your Ps and Qs! Improving ARMA forecasts with RBC priors”, joint with Troy Matheson, Economic Letters 96 (2), August, pp 275-281