E21 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: E21

Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth

Does household net financial wealth explain the asymmetric reaction of household consum...

Ndou et al (2019) showed that, in absolute terms, the decline in ho...

Eliphas Ndou

Working Paper

The J-Curve Phenomenon: Evidence from Commodity Trade Between South Africa and the Unit...

Across the world, efforts by countries to gain international compet...

Hammed Amusa, David Fadiran

Policy Brief

Flow specific capital controls for emerging markets

This paper investigates the impact of capital controls on business ...

Guangling Liu, Chris Garbers

Working Paper

The Interdependence between the Saving Rate and Technology across Regimes: Evidence fro...

This paper hypothesises that the saving rate and technological prog...

Kevin S. Nell, Maria M. De Mello

Policy Brief

Stock Return Predictability in South Africa: An Alternative Approach

There is considerable debate internationally as to whether share re...

Barry Strydom, Ailie Charteris

Policy Brief

Private Wealth in a Developing Country: A South African Perspective on Piketty

The point of departure of Thomas Piketty’s influential Capital in t...

Anna Orthofer

Working Paper

What we talk about when we talk about saving: Concepts and measures of household saving...

South African household savings rates have been declining steadily ...

Anna Orthofer

Working Paper

A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs

On average, young people underestimate whereas old people overestim...

Max Groneck, Alexander Zimper, Alexander Ludwig

Working Paper

Evolution of Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Malawi: A TVP-VAR with Stochasti...

This paper investigates the evolution of monetary transmission mech...

Manoel Bittencourt, Chance Mwabutwa, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

SASI-ERSA Savings Workshop

This workshop takes place from August 4 to August 5, 2009 at the So...

SASI, ERSA

Workshop

Financial Reforms and Consumption Behaviour in Malawi

The purpose of the study is to examine whether financial reforms im...

Manoel Bittencourt, Chance Mwabutwa, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

The Impact of Later Retirement Ages on Aggregate Household Savings and Saving Rates: An...

As a result of population aging, governments of many OECD countries...

Aylit T. Romm, Martha Wolny

Working Paper

Retirement Date Effects on Pre-Retirement Wealth Accumulation: An Analysis of US Househ...

This paper uses seven waves of data from the US Health and Retireme...

Aylit T. Romm

Working Paper

Who is Credit Constrained Among Denied or Discouraged Borrowers?

Since the seminal work of Jappelli (1990), it has become standard t...

Albert Touna-Mama, Jacques Ewoudou

Working Paper

Role of Governance in Explaining Domestic Investment in Nigeria

This study empirically examines the pattern of domestic investment ...

Olusegun A. Akanbi

Working Paper

The Equity Premium and Risk-Free Rate Puzzles in a Turbulent Economy: Evidence from 105...

This paper presents a detailed empirical examination of the South A...

Andrew van Biljon, Shakill Hassan

Working Paper