71 blog posts found
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Treasury presentations at the 2021 NZ Association of Economists conference
Posted: 19 Aug 2021With the growing availability of data and improved modelling techniques the frontier of policy advice continues to move out. To illustrate the potential of new data and techniques, Treasury staff... -
Working Paper: The Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending Shocks in New Zealand
Posted: 28 Jun 2021In a low interest rate environment, central banks are often constrained by the Zero Lower Bound so fiscal policy has become more important, and since the global financial crisis, the effects of... -
Working Paper: Golden Years - Understanding the New Zealand Superannuation Fund
Posted: 22 Jun 2021The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSF) is one of New Zealand’s largest publicly-owned financial assets. Established by the government in 2001, its primary purpose is to provide a means... -
The Economic Update cycle: how, why, and when the Treasury is forecasting
Posted: 17 Jun 2021Budget 2021 capped a particularly busy forecasting and fiscal reporting year for the Treasury – one punctuated by September’s Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU), which is ordinarily in... -
WEU Special Topic – Alert Level Assumptions Refresh (BEFU 2021)
Posted: 23 Apr 2021Topic: Economic forecastingSpecial Topic – Alert Level Assumptions Refresh (BEFU 2021) The economic effects of COVID-19, and the corresponding alert level restrictions and support measures that have been put in place, are now... -
WEU Special Topic - March 2021 Business Talks
Posted: 9 Apr 2021Topic: Economic forecastingSpecial Topic - March 2021 Business Talks Between 3 March and 12 March 2021, officials from the Treasury met with a range of businesses and other organisations to discuss the outlook for the economy... -
Conversations about the future
Posted: 6 Apr 2021Author:An introduction to a set of interviews about demographics, climate change and their implications with selected Māori and Pacific leaders and experts. As part of the work for the Treasury's 2020 Long... -
Economic advice in a time of COVID: How the New Zealand Treasury navigated the uncertainty of the global pandemic
Posted: 5 Feb 2021Topic: COVID-19Providing advice amongst the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic created new analytical challenges for the Treasury and other government agencies. This blog describes how the Treasury advised from... -
2020: The Treasury’s ‘Year of COVID’
Posted: 28 Jan 2021Topic: COVID-19As the Government’s lead economic and financial advisor, the Treasury’s major focus in 2020 and into 2021 has been leading work across the whole of government to support the COVID-19 economic... -
WEU Special Topic: HYEFU Business Talks
Posted: 23 Nov 2020Topic: Economic forecastingSpecial Topic: HYEFU Business Talks Between 28 October and 4 November 2020, officials from the Treasury met with a range of businesses and organisations to discuss the outlook for the economy....