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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

Prof Nicola Viegi deciphers the Nobel Prize winning research

In this podcast, ERSA’s host sits down with Prof. Nicola Viegi, the...

Published: 15 November 2022

Podcast

Prof. Estian Calitz on Fiscal Sustainability in South Africa: what are the shortcomings...

Shortly after the Minister of Finance gave his Supplementary Budget...

Published: 10 July 2020

Podcast

Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell on the Fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa:...

In this podcast Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell, a Policy Associate at ERSA ...

Published: 30 April 2020

Podcast

“BigTech’s Foray Into Finance - Opportunities and Challenges Ahead”

The financial system faces unprecedented change at a rapid speed. N...

Published: 7 January 2020

Workshop

A financial stress index for South Africa: A time-varying correlation approach

This paper develops a new index of financial market stress for Sout...

Published: 14 November 2019

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

Shaping macroeconomic outcomes

Policy Paper 23 By early 2016, financial market participants had be...

Published: 18 July 2017

Policy Paper

Capital controls and foreign currency denomination

This paper studies the effectiveness of capital controls with forei...

Published: 24 February 2017

Working Paper

Conference on “Financial Intermediation in Emerging Markets”

A well-functioning financial system is key for emerging markets to ...

Published: 21 July 2016

Workshop

Taxes rates, economic crisis and tax evasion: Evidence using Zimbabwe and South Africa ...

Prompted by the theoretical ambiguity in the relationships between ...

Published: 8 April 2016

Working Paper

A New International Database on Financial Fragility

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

Published: 4 August 2015

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...

Published: 2 April 2015

Working Paper

Credit spread variability in U.S. business cycles: The Great Moderation versus the Grea...

This paper establishes the prevailing financial factors that influe...

Published: 20 August 2014

Working Paper

A Note on the (continued) Ability of the Yield Curve to Forecast Economic Downturns in ...

In 2002/03 the yield spread falsely signalled a downswing that neve...

Published: 8 August 2014

Working Paper

Disaggregated Credit Extension and Financial Distress in South Africa

This study analyses the relationship between disaggregated credit e...

Published: 4 June 2014

Working Paper

Savings and economic growth: A historical analysis of the relationship between savings ...

The sub-optimal savings propensity in South Africa the past three d...

Published: 21 January 2014

Working Paper

Debt sustainability and financial crises in South Africa

This study assesses debt sustainability in South Africa allowing fo...

Published: 9 January 2014

Working Paper

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Efficiency and Productivity of the Banking...

South Africa‘s financial sector is believed to have weathered the c...

Published: 21 January 2013

Working Paper

An examination of the impact of financial deepening on long-run economic growth: An app...

This paper examines the impact of financial deepening on long run e...

Published: 27 September 2001

Working Paper