Stochastic simulation of the reserve bank's model of the New Zealand economyFootnote∗

I am grateful to Robin Harrison for his supervision of the M.A. research project on which this article is based, to David Giles for his comments and to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for allowing the use of their model and data. I would like to thank three anonymous referees for this helpful comments on an earlier draft.

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