Resumen de MARTIN Has Its Place: A Macroeconometric Model of the Australian Economy

Alexander Ballantyne, Tom Cusbert, Richard Evans, Rochelle Guttmann, Jonathan Hambur, Adam Hamilton, Elizabeth Kendall, Rachael McCririck, Gabriela Nodari, Daniel M. Rees

• This paper introduces MARTIN, the Reserve Bank of Australia's new model of the Australian economy. MARTIN is an economy-wide model used for forecasting and counterfactual scenario analysis. In contrast to other models used at the Bank (and at many other central banks) which adhere to a narrow theoretical view of how the economy operates, MARTIN is a macroeconometric model that consists of a system of reduced-form equations built to strike a balance between theoretical rigour and empirical realism. We provide an overview of the model, describe its main equations and demonstrate its responses to various scenarios.