10 April 2024
Sarah Allison
[FYI request #25969 email]
Dear Sarah
Thank you for your Official Information Act (OIA) request of 3 March 2024 for:
I request under the official information act the titles and descriptions of al seminars, workshops,
lectures (or guest lectures) held by the Bank between 1 September 2023 and 1 March 2024. I am
only interested in subject area sessions (related to economic and social themes) so please exclude
anything from the corporate side of the Bank's operations (HR, finance, IT etc).
Please include the name of the presenter(s), the description of the event, and any papers or notes
supplied for the event (i.e. academic articles or briefing notes).
As noted in our earlier correspondence, the timeframe for this response was extended to 10 April
2024, to al ow for the necessary consultations required to make a decision on this release.
Response
We have interpreted your request as being for a list of the seminars, workshops, or lectures held by
(hosted by) the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua (RBNZ) with external groups
between 1 September 2023 and 1 March 2024. The list you have requested is to include
titles/descriptions, presenters, and if any papers informed/were provided for the seminar, workshop,
or lecture.
As you have also specified the list should focus on ‘economic or social themes’, we have canvassed
the RBNZ’s Financial Stability Group, Economics Directorate, and Sustainability and Financial
Inclusion Directorate to col ate this list.
Please find below a table setting out the seminars, workshops, and lectures held by RBNZ from 1
September 2023 to 1 March 2024 on ‘economic and social themes’. Please note that some of the
papers listed may not be prepared or held by the RBNZ (if they were presented by external parties).
Date
Title / Description
Presenters
Papers or notes
4-6
Seminar (Economics)
Solmaz Moslehi, Senior
Changes in the
September
Lecturer in the
Composition of Tax
2023
Department of
Revenues: Implications for
Economics at the
Monetary and Fiscal
Monash University
Policy
14 September Open Bank Resolution (OBR)
Daniel Snethlage
2023
webinar
Cavan O’Connor-Close
(both RBNZ)
2
Date
Title / Description
Presenters
Papers or notes
27 September Seminar (Economics)
Vice President,
Decomposing Supply and
2023
Economic Research
Demand Driven Inflation
Department, Federal
Reserve Bank of San
Francisco
28 September RBNZ Workshop in Quantitative John Cochrane (Hoover
Expectations and the
2023
Economics
Institution)
neutrality of interest rates
Lynda Sanderson (New
Missing migrants: Border
Zealand Productivity
closures as a labour
Commission)
supply shock
Martin Berka (Massey
Social media sentiment
University)
and house prices:
Evidence from 35 Chinese
cities
Phillip Vermeulen
Leverage and time-
(University of
varying effects of
Canterbury)
monetary policy on the
stock market
Robert Kirkby (Victoria
University of Wel ington)
Dennis Wesselbaum
Preferences, expectations,
(University of Otago)
and actions: Evidence
from a survey of New
Zealand firms
29 September Seminar (Economics)
James Graham
Consumption Behaviour
2023
(University of Sydney)
Across the Distribution of
Assets
17 October
Seminar (Economics)
Dean Hyslop
COVID-19 Wage Subsidy:
2023
David Mare
Outcome evaluation
(Senior Fellows at Motu)
15 November Banks and Non-Bank Deposit
Ngarimu Parata
Slide deck presentation
2023
Taker Director and Senior Of icer Christian Hawkesby
Function
Kerry Watt
16 November Insurance sector Director and
Kate Le Quesne
Slide deck presentation
2023
Senior Of icer Function
Scott McKinnon
Angus McGregor
Kerry Beaumont
(all RBNZ)
4 December
Workshop: Non-bank deposit
Sandeep Parekh
2023
takers (Finpower users) re. data
Scott Graham
requirements for Depositor
(both RBNZ)
Compensation Scheme.
5 December
Workshop: Non-bank deposit
2023
takers (Finzsoft users) re. data
requirements for Depositor
Compensation Scheme.
3
Date
Title / Description
Presenters
Papers or notes
19 December Seminar (Economics)
Miles Parker
Price Stability and the
2023
(Senior Lead Economist
Green Energy Transition at European Central
Bank)
Please note that further to these seminars, workshops, or lectures that the RBNZ also holds Monetary
Policy Statement (MPS) press conferences fol owing the release of the MPS. More information can
be found at the fol owing link:
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-policy/monetary-policy-
statement.
On 28-29 September 2023 the RBNZ also hosted the Central Bank Network for Indigenous Inclusion
Symposium on Indigenous Inclusion. The RBNZ has released information on the symposium under
the OIA which can be found at the fol owing link:
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/-
/media/project/sites/rbnz/files/publications/oias/2024/oia2324_025-information-on-the-central-
bank-network-for-indigenous-inclusion-cbni -symposium.pdf.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this OIA response.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
We intend to publish this response on the Reserve Bank’s website at:
www.rbnz.govt.nz/research-
and-publications/of icial-information-requests. We do this in order to improve transparency and
provide an additional resource for anyone seeking information.
Yours sincerely
Government and Industry Relations Team
Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua
