Innovation and independence
Subtitle: the Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973-2002
By: John Singleton, with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes.
Contributors: Grimes, A.; Hawke, G. R.; Holmes, Frank Wakefield, Sir, 1924-
Publisher: Auckland University Press; in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Auckland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781869403645
Subjects: Reserve Bank of New Zealand -- History.; Banks and banking, Central -- New Zealand.; New Zealand -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1984.; New Zealand -- Economic conditions -- 1984-
Other titles: Innovation + independence
Description: The authors re-examine the Bank's early history and the deepening crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s, explore intellectual developments at the Bank and the crucial change of government in 1984, and explain how the challenges of the 1980s prompted the Bank to take the opportunity to refashion its systems and design a new institutional policy framework that targeted inflation.
Notes: Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-336).
Table of contents: title: Central banking in a controlled economy; title: The Bank and the deepening crisis; title: Intellectual developments in the Bank to 1984; title: Monetary policy and disinflation, 1984-1990; title: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1989; title: Monetary policy in the nineties; title: Financial stability; title: A comfortable old slipper? the Bank's domestic history; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix I : Reserve Bank governors 1934-2006; title: Statistics