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title: NZIER’s Shadow Board sees stronger easing bias as appropriate
description: NZIER’s Monetary Policy Shadow Board have lowered their recommendation for the OCR but remained centred on a no-change decision for Wednesday.
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# [NZIER’s Shadow Board sees stronger easing bias as appropriate](https://www.nzier.org.nz/publications/nziers-shadow-board-sees-stronger-easing-bias-as-appropriate)

 Written by [The NZIER Team](https://www.nzier.org.nz/publications/author/the-nzier-team) | August 4, 2019

NZIER’s *Monetary Policy Shadow Board* have lowered their recommendation for the OCR but remained centred on a no-change decision for Wednesday. There was a wide range of views this time, and NZIER *Shadow Board* members distinguished between their views on what they think the Reserve Bank will do, versus what it should do. Nonetheless, there was a stronger easing bias amongst the NZIER *Shadow Board*, relative to June.

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