Roy Havemann | Economic Research Southern Africa

Contributor Name: Roy Havemann

Dr. Roy Havemann obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Stellenbosch University. Roy Havemann is currently part of the Fiscal and Economic Services team for the Western Cape Government.

A basic income grant for South Africa

More money in poor people’s pockets, but at a heavy cost. Analyses ...

Roy Havemann, Hylton Hollander, Daan Steenkamp

Money Web

A basic income grant for South Africa: more money in poor people's pockets, but at a he...

Analysis of the implications of extending income support measures i...

Roy Havemann, Hylton Hollander, Daan Steenkamp

The Conversation

The macroeconomics of establishing a basic income grant in South Africa

Discussion Document 04 This paper offers a discussion on the macro...

Roy Havemann, Hylton Hollander, Daan Steenkamp

Discussion Document

Technical background paper: The macroeconomics of establishing a basic income grant in ...

Working Paper 881 This paper quantifies the effect of fiscal transf...

Roy Havemann, Hylton Hollander, Daan Steenkamp

Working Paper

The bond market impact of the South African Reserve Bank bond purchase programme

We use a unique dataset comprising over a million trades and quotes...

Roy Havemann, Rossouw van Jaarsveld, Henk Janse van Vuuren, Daan Steenkamp

Working Paper

Reigniting economic growth: Lessons from three centuries of data

We estimate that since 1701, South Africa has experienced 163 years...

Edward Kerby, Roy Havemann

Working Paper

Contagion without deposit insurance: The South African small bank crisis of 2002/3

Following the failure of Saambou bank in February 2002, another sev...

Roy Havemann

Working Paper

Can creditor bail-in trigger contagion? The experience of an emerging market

The successful bail-in of creditors in African Bank, a small South ...

Roy Havemann

Working Paper

The Cape of Perfect Storms: Colonial Africa’s first financial crash, 1788-1793

This paper investigates the causes and consequences of colonial Afr...

Roy Havemann, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffers and Interest-Rate Policy as Complements – The Experien...

Counter-cyclical capital buffers are increasingly popular new ̶...

Roy Havemann

Working Paper

Where you live matters: Urbanisation and labour markets outcomes

Policy Paper 17 Given apartheid’s legacy of irrational spatial plan...

Roy Havemann, Marna Kearney

Policy Paper