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Workshop on Financial Technology and Development

Financial technology has developed rapidly in many developing count...

Published: 15 June 2023

Seminar

Call for Application: 2023 Advanced Empirical Methods in Finance and Economics Course

This is not an Econometrics Course – it is an advanced course...

Submit paper: 9 July 2023

Published: 14 June 2023

Call for Application

2023 Advanced Empirical Methods in Finance and Economics Course

This is not an Econometrics Course – it is an advanced course...

Submit paper: 9 July 2023

Published: 9 June 2023

Course

What luminosity data can and cannot reveal about South Africa’s urban economies

Discussion Document 10 As novel types of data are becoming availabl...

Published: 22 May 2023

Discussion Document

Call for Papers: Workshop on Financial Technology and Development

Financial technology has developed rapidly in many developing count...

Submit paper: 14 July 2023

Published: 4 May 2023

Call for Papers

Advanced Panel Data Econometrics Course

The objective of this course is to discuss the salient issues in th...

Published: 2 May 2023

Course

Competition policy and regulation in digital markets

A 1-day ERSA workshop took place on 30th September 2022 in Stellen...

Published: 23 June 2022

Workshop

EconData and the world of single source automatable data

In this podcast we learn how EconData has solved a couple problems ...

Published: 15 May 2022

Podcast

Dr Daan Steenkamp on forecasting GDP: why trucks matter in SA

In our second podcast with Dr Daan Steenkamp, a lead economist at t...

Published: 19 March 2021

Podcast

Dr Daan Steenkamp on nowcasting: how economists benefit from machine learning and big data

With the unprecedented level of uncertainty in the economy, the abi...

Published: 30 October 2020

Podcast

The data revolution in African economic history

Big Data can be consequential for the field of history. The surge i...

Published: 23 October 2015

Working Paper