N1 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: N1

Call for Application: An ERSA Research Workshop: Longitudinal Data in African History

The study of African economic history has reached a tipping point. ...

Call for Application

Call for Application: Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic H...

South African economic history is undergoing a mini-revolution. Ass...

Call for Application

Call for Papers: An ERSA Research Workshop: The fiscal history of Sub-Saharan Africa

The public finances of African governments in the colonial and post...

Submit paper: 4 May 2015

Call for Papers

Measuring political and economic institutions in Ethiopia: c.1888 –2016

This paper presents the first ever set of indices of political and ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

Changes in the Liquidity Effect Over Time: Evidence from Four Monetary Policy Regimes

Monetary policy, post Bretton Woods, saw the emergence of the short...

Dawid J. van Lill

Policy Brief

7th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network: Innovation and the African ...

The African Economic History Network, in association with the Labor...

Laboratory for the Economics Africa’s Past, Harvard University’s Centre for African African Studies, ERSA, African Economic History Network

Workshop

Measurement and analysis of the evolution of institutions in Nigeria

“Institutions matter” has become a generally accepted premise in de...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Mare Sarr, David O. Fadiran

Working Paper

Path dependence and interdependence between institutions and development

Path dependence theory, within the institutions context, means that...

Mare Sarr, David Fadiran

Policy Brief

Comovement between Africa and advanced economies, 1980-2011

This paper addresses that gap by analyzing business cycle comovemen...

Alain Kabundi, Elsabé Loots, Carike Claassen

Policy Brief

Recent Growth Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): What should Policy Makers in the...

The recent decades have witnessed a series of global turbulence wit...

Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

Policy Brief

An analysis of the accuracy of South Africa's inflation figures since 1922

This paper assesses the accuracy of South African inflation data si...

Jannie Rossouw

Working Paper

An ERSA Research Workshop: The fiscal history of Sub-Saharan Africa

The public finances of African governments in the colonial and post...

Submit paper: 4 May 2015

ERSA

Workshop

An ERSA Research Workshop: Longitudinal Data in African History

The study of African economic history has reached a tipping point. ...

Submit paper: 4 May 2015

ERSA

Workshop

Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic History

South African economic history is undergoing a mini-revolution. Ass...

Submit paper: 10 October 2014

ERSA

Workshop

Climate, geography and African economic history

Africa’s ‘bad’ geographic and environmental features have long been...

ERSA

Workshop

The economics of apartheid

The Economics of Apartheid Apartheid remains a contentious issue. I...

ERSA

Workshop

From chimera to prospect: South African sources of and constraints on long-term growth,...

Policy Paper 01 The paper takes stock of South Africa’s past growth...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

Colonial data and economic history research in South Africa

Colonial data and economic history research in South Africa –...

ERSA

Workshop

Empirical Evidence on Firms and International Trade

One of the most exciting developments in the field of international...

SARB, ERSA

Workshop

Slavery and economic history research in South Africa - An ERSA Research Workshop

The fourth ERSA Economic History Workshop in November will focus on...

ERSA

Workshop