Dennis Rose

Title

Senior Associate

Profile

Dennis is a research economist working in retirement.  Beginning his career in the public service (Departments of Statistics and Industries and Commerce), he subsequently worked at the NZ Institute of Economic Research, and, after a period as a self-employed consultant, at the NZ Planning Council, and at Business and Economic Research Ltd.  Major fields of interest have included, national income accounting, industrial economics including the motor vehicle industry, Pacific Island economies, trade and development policy, labour markets and employment policy.  Dennis has frequently been involved in short and medium term economic modelling and forecasting, particularly at NZIER, NZPC and BERL.

His continuing interest in employment policy is reflected in recent papers addressing the macro economic interface with employment, including papers on the exchange rate and the balance of payments, and on the determinants of national interest rates.  Controversy on Wellington’s Western Corridor roading options revived a long-standing interest in the economics of the public sector discount rate, leading to an IPS seminar on the subject in 2006 and a recent review of discounting in the Stern Report on Climate Change.

His primary current focus is on two challenges faced by open high-income economies, the maintenance of full employment and the promotion of equitable economic and social outcomes.

Selected conference papers and publications

The Public Sector Discount Rate (Papers presented to IPS Seminar and NZ Association of Economists, 2006).

National Interest Rates and Net International Investment Positions (Paper presented to NZ Association of Economists, 2005).

The influence of the exchange rate on New Zealand’s exports and imports (Symposium on Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits, ed Leslie Hull, VUW School of Economics and Finance, 2001).

Co-author, with Paul Callister, Implications of Labour Market Change for Retirement Income Policy (Ministry of Social Policy, Wellington 2001).

Co-author, with Adolf Stroombergen, The Role of Inheritance (Office of the Retirement Commissioner, Wellington 1998).