This paper addresses the issue of whether New Zealand's public debt obligations should be denominated in domestic or foreign currency. Using the tax-smoothing approach of Bohn (1990), we estimate optimal debt portfolios. We find that, contrary to recent Government policy and the results from a...

This paper tests the rational expectations theory of the term structure using recent daily, weekly, and monthly observations on New Zealand interest rates. We find that for many maturities we cannot reject the expectations hypothesis using both short and long versions of the theory. These...