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Rangan Gupta is currently a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa and he completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, he then joined the Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, as a Senior Lecturer in August 2005 and his academic interests are mainly Monetary Theory and Policy, and Time Series Econometrics.

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Could we have predicted the recent downturn in the South African Housing Market?

This paper develops large-scale Bayesian Vector Autoregressive (BVA...

Sonali Das, Rangan Gupta, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

A Large Factor Model for Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables in South Africa

This paper uses large Factor Models (FMs) which accommodates a larg...

Rangan Gupta, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

Costly tax enforcement and financial repression

Using an overlapping generations production-economy model character...

Rangan Gupta, Emmanuel Ziramba

Working Paper

Is a DFM well suited for forecasting regional house price inflation?

This paper uses the Dynamic Factor Model (DFM) framework, which acc...

Sonali Das, Rangan Gupta, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

Tax evasion and financial repression: A reconsideration using endogenous growth models

Using two dynamic monetary general equilibrium models characterized...

Rangan Gupta, Emmanuel Ziramba

Working Paper

Currency Substitution and Financial Repression

In this paper, we use a general equilibrium overlapping generations...

Rangan Gupta

Working Paper

Measuring the welfare cost of inflation in South Africa

In this paper, we estimate the long-run equilibrium relationship be...

Josine Uwilingiye, Rangan Gupta

Working Paper

Forecasting the South African Economy: A DSGE-VAR Approach

This paper develops an estimable hybrid model that combines the mic...

Rangan Gupta, Guangling Dave Liu, Eric Schaling

Working Paper

Higher levels of tax evasion in a corrupt economy, encourage policy making that hinders...

When amplified levels of corruption and reduced penalties for illeg...

Rangan Gupta, Emmanuel Ziramba

Policy Brief

Sotuh Africa's inflation target band is appropriate - if judged against the implied wel...

Given the implied welfare costs of an inflation range of three to s...

Rangan Gupta, Josine Uwilingiye

Policy Brief

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