Information for Academics and Researchers

Page updated 5 May 2008

Treasury activities and information of particular interest to academics and researchers include our Academic Linkages Programme, research and policy publications, speeches by senior managers, and models and data relating to the economy and Government finances.

Academic Linkages Programme

Behind the Treasury’s wide-ranging economic and fiscal responsibilities lie many different academic disciplines. They include disciplines such as law, sociology, history and political science, as well as the traditional areas of economics, accounting and finance.

The Academic Linkages Programme aims to help the Treasury strengthen its links with the broader academic community through a range of activities:

• Guest Lectures - At least once a month leading academics from New Zealand and overseas are invited to present a scholarly lecture at the Treasury for Treasury staff as well as external people. You can subscribe to receive email alerts about Guest Lectures.
• Post-Graduate Scholarships - The Treasury offers a number of scholarships each year to support the preparation of Honours and Masters theses and dissertations at New Zealand universities.
• Student Summer Internships - The Treasury offers a number of summer internships to advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students.
• Visiting Research Fellowships - Treasury sponsors academics to spend a period at Treasury working on a project of mutual interest.

Models and Data

• Budget Data - Revenue and Expenses - MS Excel workbooks containing the revenue and expense data published in the Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ending 30 June 2008.
• Financial Statements of the Government - For information on the government's assets and liabilities, revenue and expenses and cash flows.
• Monthly Economic Indicators - A regular commentary on economic data releases from the previous month. An annex contains detailed charts and source data.
• Long Term Data Series (Statistics New Zealand) - Data compiled by Treasury to provide a general reference source of information on demographic, social and economic trends in New Zealand which covers varying periods of time between 1840 and 2004. Now hosted by Statistics New Zealand.
• Modelling New Zealand’s Long Term Fiscal Position - A paper which sets out the key judgements that are needed to prepare the Treasury's four-yearly Statement on New Zealand’s Long Term Fiscal Position that looks out at least 40 years.
• Tax Outturn Data - Tables of monthly tax revenue and receipts from collecting departments.
• Long Term Fiscal Model - A Treasury model in MS Excel format which projects the financial performance and the financial position of the Government.
• New Zealand Superannuation (NZS) Fund Contribution Rate Model - A Treasury model in MS Excel format that calculates the contribution rate for pre-funding NZS.

Research and Policy Publications

Treasury Working Papers and Policy Perspectives Papers are commissioned as part of the Treasury's core function of developing and providing advice to the Minister of Finance. They include work undertaken by Treasury staff as well as work undertaken for Treasury by external researchers or consultants.

These papers now have their have their own dedicated indexes so visitors can browse the papers by subject, by author and by Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification number.

Speeches

The Secretary to the Treasury and other senior staff members regularly present speeches to external audiences on a range of topics relating to Treasury's work.