Nigel Morkel-Kingsbury

Will the banks follow the lead of the RBA and cut interest rates? AAP

May 1, 2012

RBA cuts the cash rate ‑ will the banks follow?

Graham White, University of Sydney; Mardi Dungey, University of Tasmania, and Nigel Morkel-Kingsbury, Monash University

The pressure is on Australia’s major banks to pass on the Reserve Bank of Australia’s 50 basis point cut in full to Australian households and businesses. In a surprise move, the RBA slashed Australia’s…

Contrary to a report published by French bank Societe Generale, Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens confirmed that funding costs for Australian banks had increased. AAP

March 7, 2012

Evidence shows banks’ funding stance on interest rates was correct

Nigel Morkel-Kingsbury, Monash University

Predicting the setting for the banks’ standard variable housing loan interest rate used to be simple. Before the subprime crisis in the US and the subsequent GFC, the variable rate was simply the RBA target…

There is economic reasoning behind Glenn Stevens’s low public profile. AAP

May 15, 2011

Is Ben Bernanke giving Glenn Stevens a run for his money?

Nigel Morkel-Kingsbury, Monash University

Late last month, Ben Bernanke held the first ever press conference by a chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank. For more than an hour, he took questions about the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision…

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RBA cuts the cash rate ‑ will the banks follow?

Evidence shows banks’ funding stance on interest rates was correct

Is Ben Bernanke giving Glenn Stevens a run for his money?

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