Would adopting the Australian dollar provide superior monetary policy in New Zealand? |
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Authors: | Aaron Drew Viv B Hall C John McDermott Robert St Clair |
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Institution: | a OECD, Paris, France;b School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand;c National Bank of New Zealand Limited, Wellington, New Zealand;d Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore |
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Abstract: | Counterfactual experiments with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's core model provide some insight into the implications for New Zealand's economic performance over the 1990s, had it credibly fixed its currency to the Australian dollar. If New Zealand had faced the relatively more stimulatory Australian monetary conditions prevailing over the 1990s, then output growth may have been temporarily boosted. However, demand pressures would have probably been greater and inflation higher. In particular, results suggest that over the latter part of the 1990s annual inflation would have been approximately 1% point higher on average. Stochastic simulation experiments provide a vehicle to analyse what the implications of currency union might be more generally. Results suggest that if New Zealand were to lose its ability to set monetary policy independent of that set in Australia, then the variability of inflation and output would increase over the business cycle. |
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Keywords: | Common currency Australian dollar Monetary policy New Zealand |
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