JEL code: F41

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Dr Matthew Stern on understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance
An issue often overlooked in many discussions is that of exports an...
Margaux Giannaros, Matthew Stern
Podcast
Part 3: International perspectives and South Africa’s trade policy
The discussion is based on two papers: and Understanding South Afr...
Sherman Robinson, Montford Mlachila, Matthew Simmonds, Marianne Matthee, Matthew Stern
Dialogue
Prof. Johanne Fedderke on the differential impact of the Coronavirus as of end of March...
Professor Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA speaks to our ...
Margaux Giannaros, Johannes W. Fedderke
Podcast
The role of the rand as a shock absorber
This paper investigates the impact of rand shocks on industry outpu...
Luchelle Soobyah, Daan Steenkamp
Working Paper
Monetary policy in a model with commodity and financial market research brief
Uncovering the key drivers of business cycles of commodity exportin...
Vo Phuong Mai Le, Ruthira Naraidoo
Policy Brief
Monetary policy in a model with commodity and financial market
This paper builds a small open economy model for a net commodity ex...
Vo Phuong Mai Le, Ruthira Naraidoo
Working Paper
Fiscal stimulus in a global zero lower bound environment
This paper investigates the effect of fi scal stimulus from an emer...
Guangling Liu, Fernando Garcia-Barragan
Working Paper
Credit frictions and co-movement of durable and non-durable goods in a small open economy
In this paper I investigate, numerically, the co-movement puzzle by...
Hilary Patroba
Working Paper
Macroprudential policy and foreign interest rate shocks: A comparison of different inst...
This paper presents a generic small open economy real business cycl...
Guangling Liu, Chris Garbers
Working Paper
Do monetary policy announcements affect foreign exchange returns and volatility? Some ...
This paper examines the temporal effect of domestic monetary policy...
Jannie Rossouw, Greg Farrell, Cyril May
Working Paper
Capital controls and foreign currency denomination
This paper studies the effectiveness of capital controls with forei...
Guangling Liu, Fernando Garcia-Barragan
Working Paper
The behaviour of the real effective exchange rate of South Africa: is there a misalignm...
The paper uses Behavioural Equilibrium Exchange Rate methodology to...
Meshach J. Aziakpono, Melvin M. Khomo
Working Paper
South Africa’s real business cycles: The Cycle is the trend
This paper tests the ‘cycle is the trend’ hypothesis. We investigat...
Leroi Raputsoane, Hilary Patroba
Working Paper
Fiscal Consolidation, Fiscal Policy Transmission, and Current Account Dynamics in South...
The debate on global current account imbalances continues to develo...
John P. Dunne, Christine S. Makanza
Working Paper
Assessment of Monetary Union in SADC: Evidence from Cointegration and Panel Unit Root T...
In this paper we investigate the likelihood of a proposed monetary ...
Mulatu F. Zerihun, Marthinus C. Breitenbach, Francis M. Kemegue
Working Paper
Should Central Banks of Small Open Economies Respond to Exchange Rate Fluctuations: The...
We estimate a New Keynesian small open economy DSGE model for South...
Geoffrey Woglom, Sami Alpanda, Kevin Kotze
Working Paper