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Effects of South African Monetary Policy Implementation on the CMA: A Panel Vector Auto...

The paper investigates the effects of South African monetary policy...

Monaheng Seleteng

Working Paper

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...

Pierre Le Roux, Sanderson Abel

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 ...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

What Price-Level Data Tells Us About Consumer Price Rigidity in Zimbabwe: Evidence From...

This paper documents the price setting behaviour, and the change in...

Mike Nyawo, Neil Rankin

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Determinants of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Targeting Africa: 1991-2011

The fast output growth that a number of countries in Sub-Saharan Af...

‪Magdalene K. Wilson, Désiré J. M. Vencatachellum

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

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

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

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Fiscal Consolidation, Fiscal Policy Transmission, and Current Account Dynamics in South...

The debate on global current account imbalances continues to develo...

John P. Dunne, Christine S. Makanza

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Private Wealth in a Developing Country: A South African Perspective on Piketty

The point of departure of Thomas Piketty’s influential Capital in t...

Anna Orthofer

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On the Term Structure of South African Interest Rates: Cointegration and Threshold Adju...

This paper explores the correlations of the short- and long-term in...

Bernard N. Iyke

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The effectiveness of countercyclical capital requirements and contingent convertible ca...

This paper studies the effectiveness of countercyclical capital req...

Hylton Hollander

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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...

Andrew Maredza

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Debt must be invested, not consumed

We look at recent trends in debt, government consumption and invest...

Michael E. Rose, Hylton Hollander, Co-Pierre Georg

Policy Brief

What we talk about when we talk about saving: Concepts and measures of household saving...

South African household savings rates have been declining steadily ...

Anna Orthofer

Working Paper

The role of banks in money creation

The phrase “banks create money” forms part of popular discourse, bu...

Nicholas Spearman

Policy Brief

The Cape of Perfect Storms: Colonial Africa’s first financial crash, 1788-1793

This paper investigates the causes and consequences of colonial Afr...

Roy Havemann, Johan Fourie

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A Network View on Interbank Market Freezes

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

Silvia Gabrieli, Co-Pierre Georg

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Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffers and Interest-Rate Policy as Complements – The Experien...

Counter-cyclical capital buffers are increasingly popular new ̶...

Roy Havemann

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Contagious Synchronization and Endogenous Network Formation in Financial Networks

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

Christoph Aymanns, Co-Pierre Georg

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Contagious Synchronization and Endogenous Network Formation in Financial Networks

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

Christoph Aymanns, Co-Pierre Georg

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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...

Ferdi Botha, Gavin Keeton

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Credit Procyclicality and Financial Regulation in South Africa

This study assesses the behaviour of credit extension over the econ...

James Bernstein, Eric Schaling, Leroi Raputsoane

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Credit Procyclicality and Financial Regulation in South Africa

This study assesses the behaviour of credit extension over the econ...

James Bernstein, Eric Schaling, Leroi Raputsoane

Working Paper

The Welfare Cost of Sovereign Default and Liquidity Injections

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

Guangling Liu

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The Welfare Cost of Sovereign Default and Liquidity Injections

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

Guangling Liu

Working Paper

Promotion and Relegation between Country Risk Classes as Maintained by Country Risk Rat...

Credit rating agency assessments of sovereign risk bear weak statis...

Johannes W. Fedderke

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The Equity Price Channel in a New-Keynesian DSGE Model with Financial Frictions and Ban...

This paper studies the role of the equity price channel in business...

Hylton Hollander, Guangling Liu

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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...

Sylvanus Ikhide, Andrew Maredza

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Retirement Date Effects on Saving Behavior: The Case of Non-Separable Preferences

In this paper we demonstrate that the magnitude of the reaction of ...

Aylit T. Romm

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The High-Frequency Response of the Rand-Dollar rate to Inflation Surprises

We examine the high-frequency response of the rand-dollar nominal r...

Nicola Viegi, Greg Farrell, Shakill Hassan

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The Impact of Later Retirement Ages on Aggregate Household Savings and Saving Rates: An...

As a result of population aging, governments of many OECD countries...

Aylit T. Romm, Martha Wolny

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Bank concentration and the interest rate pass-through in Sub-Saharan African countries

This study investigates the link between bank concentration and int...

Tadiwa Mangwengwende, Zivanemoyo Chinzara, Heinrich Nel

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Business Cycle and Bank Capital Regulation: Basel II Procyclicality

This paper studies the impacts of bank capital regulation on busine...

Nkhahle E. Seeiso, Guangling Liu

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A Comparison of Inflation Expectations and Inflation Credibility in South Africa: Resul...

This paper reports a comparison of South African household inflatio...

Vishnu Padayachee, Jannie Rossouw, Adél Bosch

Policy Brief

Antitrust Analysis for the Internet Upstream Market: a BGP Approach

In this paper we study concentration in the European Internet upstr...

Emanuele Giovannetti, Alessio D’Ignazio

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‘Who replies in brackets and what are the implications for earnings estimates? An analy...

In household surveys, earnings data typically can be reported as po...

Dorrit Posel, Daniela Casale

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