G21 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: G21

Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

International Lending Channel, Bank Heterogeneity and Capital Inflows (Mis)Allocation

Working Paper 887 This paper explores the role of banks’ heterogene...

Silvia Marchesi, Lucas A. Mariani

Working Paper

Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia

Abstract: We exploit an unexpected increase in the Colombian insura...

Nicola Limodio

Webinar

The effect of cigarette price changes on smoking prevalence by gender: The case of Sout...

South Africa successfully reduced smoking prevalence by substantial...

Corné van Walbeek, Nicole Vellios, Zachary Gitonga

Working Paper

Estimates of bank-level funding costs in South Africa

We develop a new dataset of bank-level balance sheets data to estim...

Daan Steenkamp, Tim Olds

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Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa

The 1918 influenza – the Spanish ﬂu – killed an estimated 6% of Sou...

Jonathan Jayes, Johan Fourie

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The transmission of monetary policy via the banks' balance sheet - does bank size matter?

We study the credit channel of monetary policy in South Africa betw...

Tumisang Loate-Ntsoko, Nicola Viegi

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Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

Some of the most contested questions in political science and polit...

Martin Rode, Christian Bjørnskov

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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

Does the Pursuit of Outreach Consistently Stifle the Financial Performance of Microfina...

We study the relationship between outreach and the financial perfor...

Sydney Chikalipah

Working Paper

Order flow and rand/dollar exchange rate dynamic

This study investigates the impact of order flow on the rand/dollar...

Alta Joubert, Alain Kabundi, Aadila Hoosain

Policy Brief

Order flow and rand/dollar exchange rate dynamics

This paper uses the microstructure approach for the South African f...

Alta Joubert, Alain Kabundi, Aadila Hoosain

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Evolution and measurement of formal institutions in Cote D’Ivoire

This study analyzes the evolution of institutions in Côte d’Ivoire ...

Zie Ballo

Working Paper

Measuring the Financial Cycle in South Africa

We measure the financial cycle in South Africa using three differen...

Esti Kemp, Greg Farrell

Policy Brief

Information Contagion and Systemic Risk

We examine the effect of ex-post information contagion on the ex-an...

Toni Ahnert, Co-Pierre Georg

Working Paper

Decomposition of the Technical Efficiency: Pure Technical and Scale Efficiency of the F...

The study investigated the technical efficiency of the commercial b...

Sanderson Abel, Alex Bara

Policy Brief

An evaluation of the cost and revenue efficiency of the Zimbabwean banking sector

Banking sector efficiency measures the proximity of a decision maki...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Policy Brief

Can bank capital adequacy changes amplify the business cycle in South Africa?

The phenomenon of bank regulation procyclicality requires very care...

Sylvanus Ikhide, Foluso Akinsola

Policy Brief

An application of Panzar-Rosse Approach in assessing banking sector competition in Zimb...

An assessment of bank competition is important for a number of reas...

Pierre Le Roux, Sanderson Abel

Policy Brief

An evaluation of the cost and revenue efficiency of the banking sector in Zimbabwe

The study was meant to evaluate the cost and revenue efficiency of ...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

Financial Innovation and Economic Growth in the SADC

The study empirically establishes the causal relationship between f...

Gift Mugano, Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara

Working Paper

Why local context matters: de jure and de facto property rights in colonial South Africa

For economic transactions, including debt transactions, to occur in...

Johan Fourie, Christie Swanepoel

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Financial Reforms and the Finance – Growth Relationship in the Southern African Develop...

This study seeks to establish the casual relationship between finan...

Gift Mugano, Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara

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Financial development and income inequality in Africa: A panel heterogeneous approach

Although the financial sector of Africa has witnessed massive refor...

Anthanasius F. Tita, Meshach J. Aziakpono

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Assessing banking sector competition in Zimbabwe using a Panzar-Rosse Approach

This paper assesses the level of competition in Zimbabwe’s banking ...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

What drives cross-border bank expansion? Answers from Kenya

This paper investigates the drivers of bank foreign expansion in Ea...

Odongo Kodongo

Working Paper

Do Capital Requirements Affect Cost of Intermediation? Evidence from a Panel of South A...

Since the 2007 sub-prime financial crisis, world bank capital ratio...

Andrew Maredza

Working Paper

Financial sector development and threshold effect of inflation in ECOWAS and SADC: A Pa...

The financial sector of an economy is now widely agreed to constitu...

Sulemana Mahawiya

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A New International Database on Financial Fragility

We present a new database on financial fragility for 124 countries ...

‪Svetlana Andrianova‬, Robert Lensink, Peter Rousseau, Panicos Demetriades, Johan Rewilak, David Fielding, Badi H. Baltagi, Steven F. Koch, Stephen G. Hall, Thorsten Beck

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Financial sustainability of Tanzanian saving and credit cooperatives

This paper examined the profitability and financial sustainability ...

Nyankomo Marwa, Meshach J. Aziakpono

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Financial sector development, inflation and openness: A comparative panel study of ECOW...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the comparative study ...

Sulemana Mahawiya

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Technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian saving and credit cooperatives

In measuring technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian Saving and...

Nyankomo Marwa, Meshach J. Aziakpono

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A Network View on Interbank Market Freezes

We study the liquidity allocation among European banks around the L...

Silvia Gabrieli, Co-Pierre Georg

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Financial Development and the Diffusion of Technologies under Uncertainty in Africa

Using novel measures of technology diffusion and adoption developed...

Zivanemoyo Chinzara

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A Network Analysis of the Evolution of the German Interbank Market

In this paper, we report a descriptive investigation of the structu...

Stefano Battiston, Tarik Roukny, Co-Pierre Georg

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Contagious Synchronization and Endogenous Network Formation in Financial Networks

When banks choose similar investment strategies the financial syste...

Christoph Aymanns, Co-Pierre Georg

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Contagious Synchronization and Endogenous Network Formation in Financial Networks

When banks choose similar investment strategies the financial syste...

Christoph Aymanns, Co-Pierre Georg

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