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Banks’ Physical Footprint and Financial Technology Adoption

Working Paper 888 Do physical bank branches moderate the diffusion ...

Bernardo Ricca, Lucas A. Mariani, José Renato H. Ornelas

Working Paper

Workshop on Financial Technology and Development

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

Giorgia Barboni, Giorgia Barboni, Allan Davids, Co-Pierre Georg, Willem H. Boshoff, Lukasz Grzybowski, Lucas A. Mariani

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

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

Lucas A. Mariani

Course

Call for Papers: Workshop on Financial Technology and Development

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

Submit paper: 14 July 2023

Call for Papers

Fitch affirms SA's sub-investment grade, stable outlook

Bradley Kent

SABC News

Prof Nicola Viegi deciphers the Nobel Prize winning research

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

Margaux Giannaros, Nicola Viegi

Podcast

Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia

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

Nicola Limodio

Webinar

Prof Nicola Viegi on evaluating the near future of monetary policy in SA: Sailing into ...

Only three times in the last century has monetary policy been re-ev...

Margaux Giannaros, Nicola Viegi

Podcast

Part 1: Monetary policy and Covid-19 in South Africa

The discussion is based on Sailing into the Wind: evaluating the (n...

Matthew Simmonds, Nicola Viegi, Mamokete Lijane, Konstantin Makrelov, Gina Schoeman

Dialogue

Understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance

Policy Paper 26 South Africa’s exports have lagged behind the rest ...

Matthew Stern, Yash Ramkolowan

Policy Paper

Fiscal risks and their impact on banks’ capital buffers in South Africa

South Africa’s fiscal balances have deteriorated significantly over...

Bojosi Morule, Neryvia Pillay Bell, Konstantin Makrelov

Working Paper

The effectiveness of counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulations: generic versus sector-...

This paper considers the implication of the counter-cyclical loan-t...

Guangling Liu

Working Paper

Isaah Mhlanga on SA Budget 2021: Good news from SA’s 2020 Monetary and Fiscal Policy De...

Joining ERSA’s host in this podcast is Isaah Mhlanga, a Chief Econo...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa

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

Jonathan Jayes, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

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...

Tumisang Loate-Ntsoko, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

Dr Chris Loewald on Lockdown Learnings: monetary policy leeway during a pandemic

Shortly after the October MPR, ERSA’s host sat down with Dr Chris L...

Margaux Giannaros, Christopher Loewald

Podcast

Part 2: Financing the budget in the post-Corona world

Matthew delves into what financing the budget deficit in the post-C...

Brian Kantor, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Mamokete Lijane, Lucio Castro, Ian Stuart

Dialogue

Part 1: Understanding the concept of "fiscal sustainability" in the post-Corona world

Debt sustainability is equivalent to government solvency and from a...

Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Ian Stuart, Mamokete Lijane, Brian Kantor, Xavier Debrun, Lucio Castro

Dialogue

Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

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

Martin Rode, Christian Bjørnskov

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...

Roy Havemann

Working Paper

Dr David Fowkes on QE and central bank balance sheet policies: Does South Africa have ‘...

Shortly after the Governor of the SARB gave his speech about the fu...

Margaux Giannaros, David Fowkes

Podcast

Chris Loewald on the Monetary Policy response to the Coronavirus pandemic in South Afri...

Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic and an economic downgrade, we speak...

Margaux Giannaros, Christopher Loewald

Podcast

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

The effectiveness of counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulations: generic versus sector-...

This paper considers the implications of the counter-cyclical loan-...

Thabang Molisey, Guangling Liu

Working Paper

Access to micro and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of poo...

Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigated the possi...

Talita Dalton-Greyling

Policy Brief

Access to micro – and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of p...

Background: Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigat...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

Is Basel III counter-cyclical: The case of South Africa?

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with bankin...

Thabang Molisey, Guangling Liu

Working Paper

An Analysis of Competition, Efficiency and Soundness in the South African Banking Sector

The main aim of this study was to investigate the relationship betw...

Busani Moyo

Working Paper

Credit frictions and co-movement of durable and non-durable goods in a small open economy

In this paper I investigate, numerically, the co-movement puzzle by...

Hilary Patroba

Working Paper

Modelling Systemic Risk in the South African Banking Sector Using CoVar

In this paper we model systemic risk by making use of the condition...

Mathias Manguzvane

Policy Brief

Analysis of tax harmonisation in the SADC

This paper analyses tax harmonisation in the SADC region. Results o...

Jannie Rossouw, Tendai Gwatidzo, Michael Ade

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...

Sanderson Abel, Alex Bara

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...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Policy Brief

The Interdependence between the Saving Rate and Technology across Regimes: Evidence fro...

This paper hypothesises that the saving rate and technological prog...

Kevin S. Nell, Maria M. De Mello

Policy Brief

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

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

Sylvanus Ikhide, Foluso Akinsola

Policy Brief