O16 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O16

Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance

Understanding the behaviour of house prices and household income per capita in South Af...

Homeownership by the lower and middle-income households is crucial ...

Pieter Opperman, Anthanasius F. Tita

Working Paper

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

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

Capital Account Liberalization and Capital Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Thresho...

Capital inflows to Sub-Saharan Africa have been increasing over the...

Tamara E. Mughogho, Imhotep P. Alagidede

Policy Brief

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

Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan African: Does Sectora...

The role of financial sector development in economic growth has rec...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Policy Brief

Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth in sub–Saharan Africa: Does Sectoral...

This paper examines the overall economic growth effect when the gro...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Working Paper

Spatial Externality, Openness and Financial Development in SADC: Beyond the Multilatera...

Economic variables tend to exhibit variation not only over time, bu...

Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara, Gift Mugano

Policy Brief

How are Africa’s emerging stock markets related to advanced markets? Evidence from copulas

This paper focuses on two key questions: How are Africa’s emerging ...

Paul Alagidede, Jones O. Mensah

Policy Brief

Financial sector development, economic volatility and shocks in sub-Saharan Africa

The role of financial sector development in economic volatility has...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Policy Brief

The Impact of Basic and Social Infrastructure Investment on Economic Growth and Social ...

Basic and social infrastructure investment can assist in addressing...

Derick Blaauw, Talita Dalton-Greyling, Henk Gnade

Policy Brief

Spatial Externalities, Openness and Financial Development in SADC: Beyond the Multilate...

This study empirically evaluates spatial externalities in financial...

Gift Mugano, Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara

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

Working Paper

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

Working Paper

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

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

Sulemana Mahawiya

Working Paper

Financial Liberalisation and Economic Growth in the SADC

Attaining high levels of economic growth and development has been o...

Pierre Le Roux, Clement Moyo

Policy Brief

Bank Deposit Contracts Versus Financial Market Participation in Emerging Economies

The financial sector of emerging economies in Africa is characteriz...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

The eyes of the world have, in recent years, been steadfastly focus...

Henri Bezuidenhout, Elsabé Loots, Carike Claassen

Working Paper

On the Looting of Nations

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of an unchecked ruler ma...

Erwin Bulte, Tim Swanson, Mare Sarr

Working Paper