G28 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: G28

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

Fiscal risks and their impact on banks’ capital buffers in South Africa

South Africa’s fiscal balances have deteriorated significantly over...

Bojosi Morule, Neryvia Pillay Bell, Konstantin Makrelov

Working Paper

The effectiveness of counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulations: generic versus sector-...

This paper considers the implication of the counter-cyclical loan-t...

Guangling Liu

Working Paper

Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

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

Martin Rode, Christian Bjørnskov

Working Paper

The effectiveness of counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulations: generic versus sector-...

This paper considers the implications of the counter-cyclical loan-...

Thabang Molisey, Guangling Liu

Working Paper

Is Basel III counter-cyclical: The case of South Africa?

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with bankin...

Thabang Molisey, Guangling Liu

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

Welfare analysis of bank capital requirements with endogenous default

This paper presents a tractable framework with endogenous default a...

Fernando Garcia-Barragan, Guangling Liu

Working Paper

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

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

The role of finance in economic growth in SADC has been downplayed ...

Gift Mugano, Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara

Policy Brief

Financial Reforms and the Finance-Growth Relationship in the Southern African Developme...

The role of finance in economic growth in SADC has been downplayed ...

Gift Mugano, Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara

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

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

Working Paper

The effectiveness of countercyclical capital requirements and contingent convertible ca...

This paper studies the effectiveness of countercyclical capital req...

Hylton Hollander

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

International financial architecture, macroeconomic volatility and institutions: South ...

Policy Paper 08 Through 43 years of history, this study identifies ...

Melvin Ayogu, Hashem Dezhbakhsh

Policy Paper

Monetary policy and commodity terms of trade shocks in emerging market economies

Commodity terms of trade shocks have continued to drive macroeconom...

Albert Touna-Mama, Seedwell Hove, Fulbert Tchana Tchana

Working Paper

Terms of Trade Shocks and Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Economies

Emerging market economies (EMEs) have persistently experienced diff...

Albert Touna-Mama, Seedwell Hove, Fulbert Tchana Tchana

Working Paper

Do Monetary, Fiscal and Financial Institutions Really Matter for Inflation Targeting in...

Most emerging market economies (EMEs) which have implemented inflat...

Albert Touna-Mama, Seedwell Hove, Fulbert Tchana Tchana

Working Paper

Bank concentration and the interest rate pass-through in Sub-Saharan African countries

This study investigates the link between bank concentration and int...

Tadiwa Mangwengwende, Zivanemoyo Chinzara, Heinrich Nel

Working Paper

Business Cycle and Bank Capital Regulation: Basel II Procyclicality

This paper studies the impacts of bank capital regulation on busine...

Nkhahle E. Seeiso, Guangling Liu

Working Paper

Regulation and Banking Stability: A Survey of Empirical Studies

This paper brings together and adds structure to the empirical lite...

Fulbert Tchana Tchana

Working Paper