Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56732 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2011-032
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has been the first central bank that began to publish interest rate projections in order to improve its guidance of monetary policy. This paper provides new evidence on the role of interest rate projections for market expectations about future short-term rates and the behavior of long-term interest rates in New Zealand. We find that interest rate projections up to four quarters ahead play a significant role for the RBNZs expectations management before the crisis, while their empirical relevance has decreased ever since. For interest rate projections at longer horizons, the information content seems to be only weak and partially destabilizing.
Subjects: 
central bank interest rate projections
central bank communication
expectations management of central banks
JEL: 
E52
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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