The Chair in Public Finance conducts research on public finance to improve the quality of public policy in New Zealand and abroad.
Professor Norman Gemmell is the current Chair in Public Finance.
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OPINION: With the government borrowing heavily to fund its pandemic response and recovery, it has been suggested it could simply cancel its debt by printing more money.
A former Reserve Bank (RBNZ) Chairman, Chief Economist and architect of inflation-targeting, Arthur Grimes, is scathing of how far the country’s central bank is going in its easing of monetary policy.
Budget 2020 may not be the proverbial pre-election ‘lolly-scramble’ so often on journalists’ lips at this time in an election year. But a canny Emperor knows exactly what ‘invisible’ electioneering clothes he’s wearing, writes Professor Norman Gemmell.
