Susie McKenzie
Senior Economist
Susie specialises in international trade, public policy and economic modelling. She brings nearly a decade of experience across government and international organisations, including the New Zealand Treasury, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and the United Nations, providing economic research and advice on domestic and international policy issues.
Her work has included assessing the economic impacts of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on New Zealand industries and consumers, analysing the effects of international economic developments on the New Zealand economy, and developing economic models to support government policy advice and forecasting. She has also undertaken research on demographic change, energy markets, and the economic impacts of free trade agreements.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
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McKenzie, S., Smith, C., Vu, H., & Binning, A. (forthcoming, February 2027). The fiscal implications of our future population. Policy Quarterly.
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Campbell, S., & Üngör, M. (2020). Revisiting human capital and aggregate income differences. Economic Modelling, 91, 43–64.
Treasury Analytical Notes
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McKenzie, S. (2025). Vector autoregressive models for tax forecasting (AN 25/03). New Zealand Treasury.
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Binning, A., McKenzie, S., Özbilgin, M., & Smith, C. (2025). Microeconomic heterogeneity in wages, hours, and assets to inform an OLG model for New Zealand (AN 25/06). New Zealand Treasury.
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McKenzie, S. (2024). How vulnerable is New Zealand to economic shocks in its major trading partners? (AN 24/04). New Zealand Treasury.
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Binning, A., McKenzie, S., Özbilgin, M., & Smith, C. (2024). New Zealand demographics and their role in an overlapping generations model (AN 24/08). New Zealand Treasury.
Book chapters
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Weller, J., Gontero, S., & McKenzie, S. (2024). The risk of technologically triggered job destruction: A view from Latin America. In R. E. Rodríguez Pérez & L. Meza González (Eds.), Technological change and labor markets: Productivity, job polarization, and inequality (Chapter 5). Routledge.
Earlier publications appear under the name Susie Campbell.