... Zealand and those in Australia and the United States. The currency risk premium was then derived from actual interest rate differentials between New Zealand and Australia and New Zealand and the ... outputgap, and the exchange rate at neutral. An economy may bein a position where the interest rate is above the NRR, the exchange rate is below its neutral level, and the output gap is positive. In these ... as the mechanism which equates the demand and supply of thatgood, the interest rate can be thought of as the mechanismwhich equates the demand for, and supply of, loanable funds.In the stylised...