Researcher Profiles Adam Gorajek
Financial Markets Group
Current research interests: monetary policy, international spillovers, central bank operations, financial markets
Contact: gorajeka@rba.gov.au
Adam is head of the Research and Modelling Hub of the Financial Markets Group. Prior to that he has held various policy roles at the RBA and Australia’s prudential regulator (APRA), and has performed technical assistance throughout the Pacific Islands. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales, and has journal publications in the fields of economic measurement, econometric theory and policy experimentation.
Academic publications
- ‘Valuing Safety and Privacy in Retail Central Bank Digital Currency’ International Journal of Central Banking.
- ‘Generalising the Stochastic Approach to Price Indexes’ Review of Income and Wealth, 70(1), pp 80–101.
- ‘Quasilinear-mean Regression’ Journal of Economic Surveys, 36(5), pp 1288–1310.
Other Research Papers
- ‘Estimating Household Valuations for Offline Digital Money’ RBA Research Discussion Paper.
- ‘Valuing Safety and Privacy in Retail Central Bank Digital Currency’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2024-02.
- ‘Comment on ‘Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back’’ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Staff Report No 629.
- ‘Star Wars at Central Banks’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2021-02.
- ‘The Well-meaning Economist’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2019-08.
- ‘Econometric Perspectives on Economic Measurement’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2018-08.
Policy publications
- ‘Lower Bulk Commodity Prices and Their Effect on Economic Activity’ RBA Bulletin, September.
- ‘Small Business Funding in Australia’ in Small Business Finance Roundtable, Proceedings of a Conference, RBA, Sydney, pp 15–24.
- ‘Developments in the Structure of the Australian Financial System’ RBA Bulletin, June
- ‘Australian Bank Capital and the Regulatory Framework’ RBA Bulletin, September.