Source: Reserve Bank of New Zealand
15 January 2025 – At 11am on Wednesday 29 January 2025 Chief Economist Paul Conway will deliver a speech titled: Beyond the Cycle: Growth and interest rates in the long run.
The full speech text will be published on the RBNZ website at 11am. The speech will also be livestreamed via the RBNZ website. Viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions of Mr Conway via an online portal once the speech has been delivered.
About the speech
The speech looks beyond the business cycle to explore New Zealand’s longer-term economic growth potential. It also discusses the neutral interest rate, including what drives changes in the neutral rate.
The speech is written by the Chief Economist and RBNZ staff and is not intended as an official Monetary Policy Committee statement. There will be no update on the state of the economy since the November 2024 Monetary Policy Statement. Recent economic data results from December and January will be discussed in detail in the upcoming Monetary Policy Statement on 19 February.
