Contemporary Topics in Finance

Iris Claus is Macroeconomic Advisor at the International Monetary Fund's Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre in Fiji. She previously held policy and research positions at the Asian Development Bank, the New Zealand Inland Revenue, the New Zealand Treasury, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and the Bank of Canada. Iris is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Surveys and Asian Economic Papers, a Senior Fellow at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and an affiliate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA). Her current research interests are in unconventional monetary policy, taxation, financial intermediation, open economy macroeconomics and general equilibrium modeling. Leo Krippner is Senior Advisor in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's Economics Department. He previously worked in the Reserve Bank's Financial Markets Department, the New Zealand Treasury, and in private sector funds management at AMP Capital Investors and AXA Funds Management. Leo is a Senior Fellow at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, an affiliate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), and a member of the Education Trust of the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE). He is the recipient of the 2017 Central Banking Award in Economics and the 2003 A R Bergstrom Prize in Econometrics. His current research interests are in term structure modelling, macro-finance, and econometric modeling.