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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

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

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

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

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

Margaux Giannaros, Estian Calitz

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 ...

Margaux Giannaros, Neryvia Pillay Bell

Podcast

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

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

UCT, UCG GSB, ERSA

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...

Theshne Kisten

Working Paper

Measuring the Financial Cycle in South Africa

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

Esti Kemp, Greg Farrell

Policy Brief

Shaping macroeconomic outcomes

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

Christopher Loewald

Policy Paper

Capital controls and foreign currency denomination

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

Guangling Liu, Fernando Garcia-Barragan

Working Paper

Conference on “Financial Intermediation in Emerging Markets”

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

Maju Puri, Lesetja Kganyago

Workshop

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

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

Marko Kwaramba, Calvin Mudzingiri

Working Paper

A New International Database on Financial Fragility

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

‪Svetlana Andrianova‬, Robert Lensink, Peter Rousseau, Panicos Demetriades, Johan Rewilak, David Fielding, Badi H. Baltagi, Steven F. Koch, Stephen G. Hall, Thorsten Beck

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...

Roy Havemann, Johan Fourie

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...

Hylton Hollander, Guangling Liu

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...

Ferdi Botha, Gavin Keeton

Working Paper

Disaggregated Credit Extension and Financial Distress in South Africa

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

Leroi Raputsoane

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...

John W. M. Mwamba, Lorraine Greyling, Grietjie Verhoef

Working Paper

Debt sustainability and financial crises in South Africa

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

Ruthira Naraidoo, Leroi Raputsoane

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...

Sylvanus Ikhide, Andrew Maredza

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...

Chandana Kularatne

Working Paper