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The South African sovereign term premium and its drivers

Discussion Document 15 South Africa’s sovereign yield curve is one ...

Ruan Erasmus, Daan Steenkamp

Discussion Document

Shedding light on AGOA

This week, after much anticipation, the AGOA Forum was hosted in Na...

Gracelin Baskaran, Margaux Giannaros

Podcast

South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

Discussion Document 14 South Africa’s cities face multiple, overlap...

Dieter von Fintel, Justin Visagie, Ivan Turok, Takwanisa Machemedze, Claus Rabe, Sebastian Galiani, Edward Glaeser

Discussion Document

South Africa’s yield curve conundrum

Discussion Document 07 South Africa’s sovereign yield curve is one ...

Ruan Erasmus, Daan Steenkamp

Discussion Document

Local-Currency sovereign risk on South African government bonds

Working Paper 882 While local-currency bond markets have become a d...

Mulalo Mamburu

Working Paper

Tough choices will remain for SA when unearned respite fades

SA has been a relatively good story in the emerging-market world si...

Isaah Mhlanga

Business Day

Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia

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

Nicola Limodio

Webinar

Risk and return spillovers in a global model of the Foreign Exchange Network

We developed a network model to capture the dynamic interactions am...

Herbert Ntuli, Gibson Mudiriza, Edwin Muchapondwa, Boscow Okumu, Alfred K. Mukong

Working Paper

Policy Bulletin 05: The impact of global FX liquidity on the rand

The Covid crisis saw significant declines in market liquidity and c...

Tim Olds, Rossouw van Jaarsveld, Daan Steenkamp

Policy Bulletin

‘Learning to export’ and ‘learning to innovate’: Revisiting the relationship between in...

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and export ...

Fiona Tregenna, Elvis K. Avenyo, Kwanele Ngwadleka

Working Paper

Income convergence in Southern Africa: A non-linear time-varying coefficients framework

This article investigated income per capita convergence in the Sout...

Ntokozo P. Nzimande

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

A New Keynesian DSGE model for low income economies with foreign exchange constraints

The existing literature is clear that low income economies tend to ...

Bertha C. Bangara

Working Paper

Monetary policy in a model with commodity and financial market research brief

Uncovering the key drivers of business cycles of commodity exportin...

Vo Phuong Mai Le, Ruthira Naraidoo

Policy Brief

Monetary policy in a model with commodity and financial market

This paper builds a small open economy model for a net commodity ex...

Vo Phuong Mai Le, Ruthira Naraidoo

Working Paper

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Demand for Cigarettes in South Africa

Tobacco use is a major health problem, resulting in many millions o...

Alfred K. Mukong

Policy Brief

Fiscal stimulus in a global zero lower bound environment

This paper investigates the effect of fi scal stimulus from an emer...

Guangling Liu, Fernando Garcia-Barragan

Working Paper

Family-type Public Goods and Intra-Household Decision-Making by Co-Resident South Afric...

Intra-household decision-making is a fundamental development issue,...

Frederik Booysen, Sevias Guvuriro

Policy Brief

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

Parental bargaining and rural-urban child health differential in Tanzania

This paper extends the empirical analysis of child health by simult...

Justine Burns, Alfred K. Mukong

Policy Brief

Private schools and student learning achievements in Kenya

This papers examines the effect of private schools on literacy and ...

Fredrick M. Wamalwa, Justine Burns

Policy Brief

Foreign market selection of emerging multinational corporations: evidence from South Af...

As literature remains sparse regarding emerging African multination...

André C. Jordaan, Mustafa Sakr

Working Paper

The effect of education on a country’s energy consumption: Evidence from developed and ...

Education has been regarded throughout history as one of the main d...

Luis D. del Corral Morales, Roula Inglesi-Lotz

Working Paper

The influence of financial market development on economic growth in BRICS countries

The debate about the influence of financial market development on e...

Charles V. R. Wait, Tafadzwa Ruzive

Policy Brief

Bilateral Investment Treaties: An unfair proposition for Developing countries

After the explosive expansion of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Policy Brief

South Africa’s real business cycles: The Cycle is the trend

This paper tests the ‘cycle is the trend’ hypothesis. We investigat...

Leroi Raputsoane, Hilary Patroba

Working Paper

Emerging multinational corporations: A prominent player in the global economy

As emerging market multinational corporations (EMNCs) tend to remar...

André C. Jordaan, Mustafa Sakr

Policy Brief

Price-setting Behavior and Competition in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Retail O...

We study the relationship between price-setting behavior and the de...

Mamello A. Nchake, Lawrence Edwards, Asha Sundaram

Working Paper

The Influence of Higher Moments and Non-Normality on the Sharpe Ratio: A South African ...

Although the general assumption is that daily and monthly returns d...

Chris van Heerden

Working Paper

A Portrait of Informal Sector Credit and Interest Rates in Malawi: Interpolated Monthly...

Although informal finance forms a large part of their financial sec...

Harold P. E. Ngawala

Working Paper

Bank Deposit Contracts Versus Financial Market Participation in Emerging Economies

The financial sector of emerging economies in Africa is characteriz...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

Don’t Make War, Make Elections. Franchise Extension and Violence in XIXth-Century Colombia

This paper studies the effect of strengthening democracy, as captur...

Juan F. Vargas, Leopoldo Fergusson

Working Paper

The impact of tobacco advertising bans on consumption - a cross country approach includ...

Policy Paper 13 Tobacco advertising bans have become commonplace in...

Evan Blecher

Policy Paper

The Cost-effectiveness of Intervening in Low and High HIV Prevalence Areas in South Africa

The cost-effectiveness of intervening with a set of HIV/AIDS interv...

Josue Mbonigaba

Working Paper

Trends and Structural Changes in South African Macroeconomic Volatility

The international financial crisis that started in 2007 and the sub...

Stan Du Plessis, Kevin Kotze

Working Paper

An economic analysis of sports performance in Africa

The purpose of this study is to develop insight into the socio-econ...

Riyas Fadal, John M. Luiz

Working Paper