N17 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: N17

Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Africa; Oceania

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

Financial development and income inequality: a nonlinear econometric analysis of 21 Afr...

A panel data analysis of financial inequality was conducted using t...

Lindokuhle T. Zungu, Lorraine Greyling

Working Paper

The effect of colonial and pre-colonial institutions on contemporary education in Africa

This paper argues that contrary to previous findings, present-day e...

Matthew W. Clance, Leoné Walters, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Which comes first: good governance or prosperity? A historical experiment from the Sout...

Two neighbouring republics, with a common history and culture, foll...

Stan Du Plessis, Sophia du Plessis

Working Paper

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

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

What explains the recent growth performance in Sub-Saharan Africa? Results from a Bayes...

This paper empirically identifies the main driving forces behind th...

Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

Working Paper

Latecomer challenge: African Multinationals from the periphery

Multinationals from emerging markets display different characterist...

Grietjie Verhoef

Working Paper

The Cape of Perfect Storms: Colonial Africa’s first financial crash, 1788-1793

This paper investigates the causes and consequences of colonial Afr...

Roy Havemann, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

Macroeconomic Uncertainty in South Africa

This paper develops a new index of economic uncertainty for South A...

Chris Redl

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

Anatomy of the Southern African Customs Union: Structure and Revenue Volatility

This paper studies the evolution of the Southern African Customs Un...

Harold P. E. Ngawala

Working Paper

The quantitative Cape: Notes from a new Histriography of the Dutch Cape Colony

The digitisation and transcription of rich archival sources and the...

Johan Fourie

Working Paper

The economics of apartheid

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

ERSA

Workshop

Towards a Measure of Core Inflation using Singular Spectrum Analysis

This paper constructs a number of possible core measures of annual ...

Franz Ruch, Dirk Besteri

Working Paper

How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in sub-Saharan Africa?

This paper investigates the channels through which colonial origin ...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Julius A. Agbor, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

Colonial data and economic history research in South Africa

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

ERSA

Workshop

Historic data and economic history research in South Africa

This workshop continues the strategic initiative for South African ...

James Robinson

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