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

This paper explores the role of banks’ heterogeneity in internation...

Published: 16 August 2023

Working Paper

Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia

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

Published: 17 February 2022

Webinar

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

South Africa successfully reduced smoking prevalence by substantial...

Published: 19 April 2021

Working Paper

Estimates of bank-level funding costs in South Africa

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

Published: 30 March 2021

Working Paper

Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa

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

Published: 8 February 2021

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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...

Published: 29 January 2021

Working Paper

Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

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

Published: 3 July 2020

Working Paper

Contagion without deposit insurance: The South African small bank crisis of 2002/3

Following the failure of Saambou bank in February 2002, another sev...

Published: 30 June 2020

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

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

Published: 19 March 2020

Working Paper

Order flow and rand/dollar exchange rate dynamic

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

Published: 9 April 2019

Policy Brief

Order flow and rand/dollar exchange rate dynamics

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

Published: 7 December 2018

Working Paper

Evolution and measurement of formal institutions in Cote D’Ivoire

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

Published: 23 May 2018

Working Paper

Measuring the Financial Cycle in South Africa

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

Published: 2 March 2018

Policy Brief

Information Contagion and Systemic Risk

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

Published: 12 June 2017

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...

Published: 9 June 2017

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...

Published: 2 May 2017

Policy Brief

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

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

Published: 21 February 2017

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...

Published: 6 September 2016

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 ...

Published: 24 August 2016

Working Paper

Financial Innovation and Economic Growth in the SADC

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

Published: 18 August 2016

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...

Published: 12 July 2016

Working Paper

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

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

Published: 17 June 2016

Working Paper

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

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

Published: 15 June 2016

Working Paper

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

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

Published: 20 April 2016

Working Paper

What drives cross-border bank expansion? Answers from Kenya

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

Published: 19 February 2016

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...

Published: 28 August 2015

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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...

Published: 27 August 2015

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A New International Database on Financial Fragility

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

Published: 4 August 2015

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Financial sustainability of Tanzanian saving and credit cooperatives

This paper examined the profitability and financial sustainability ...

Published: 3 July 2015

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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 ...

Published: 30 June 2015

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Technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian saving and credit cooperatives

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

Published: 18 March 2015

Working Paper

A Network View on Interbank Market Freezes

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

Published: 9 January 2015

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Financial Development and the Diffusion of Technologies under Uncertainty in Africa

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

Published: 21 October 2014

Working Paper

A Network Analysis of the Evolution of the German Interbank Market

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

Published: 10 September 2014

Working Paper

Contagious Synchronization and Endogenous Network Formation in Financial Networks

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

Published: 8 August 2014

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Contagious Synchronization and Endogenous Network Formation in Financial Networks

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

Published: 8 August 2014

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