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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

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

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

Democratisation in Africa: The Role of Self-Enforcing Constitutional Rules

Following several decades during which violent civil conflict was c...

Krige Siebrits, Ada Jansen, Sophia du Plessis

Working Paper

Democratisation in Africa: The Role of Self-Enforcing Constitutional Rules

Following several decades during which violent civil conflict was c...

Krige Siebrits, Ada Jansen, Sophia du Plessis

Working Paper

Financial Stress Indicator Variables and Monetary Policy in South Africa

This paper analyses the relationship between financial stress indic...

Leroi Raputsoane

Working Paper

Financial Stress Indicator Variables and Monetary Policy in South Africa

This paper analyses the relationship between financial stress indic...

Leroi Raputsoane

Working Paper

Second Annual Financial Economics Workshop

Following the first workshop on financial economics in Cape Town in...

Sascha Steffen, Franklin Allen

Workshop

Financial Economics Workgroup Seminar

Presenter: Professor Falko Fecht (Frankfurt School of Finance and M...

Falko Fecht

Workshop

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

Evolution of Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Malawi: A TVP-VAR with Stochasti...

This paper investigates the evolution of monetary transmission mech...

Manoel Bittencourt, Chance Mwabutwa, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

First Annual Financial Economics Workshop: Financial Economics and the Nexus of Growth,...

The recent financial crisis has challenged our understanding of the...

UCT Graduate School of Business

Workshop

Bank Deposit Contracts Versus Financial Market Participation in Emerging Economies

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

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

Interaction of Formal and Informal Financial Markets in Quasi-Emerging Market Economies

The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the interacti...

Nicola Viegi, Harold P. E. Ngawala

Working Paper

Business cycle co-movements between South Africa and the BRIC countries

This paper investigates the co-movement of business cycles between ...

Alain Kabundi, Mustafa Y. Çakir

Working Paper

Financial Reforms and Consumption Behaviour in Malawi

The purpose of the study is to examine whether financial reforms im...

Manoel Bittencourt, Chance Mwabutwa, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

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

A Theoretically Defensible Measure of Risk: Using Financial Market Data from a Middle I...

While economic theory assumes that risk is of central importance in...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

Financial Instability: an Emerging Market Perspective

ERSA in collaboration with the Wits Business School is pleased to a...

Workshop

An examination of the Impact of Economic Policy on long-run Economic Growth: An applica...

This paper examines the impact of two indicators of government poli...

Martine Mariotti

Working Paper

Arbitrage, Cointegration and Efficiency in Financial Markets in the Presence of Financi...

The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Genesis Analyt...

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

A case of polarization paralysis: the debate surrounding a growth strategy for South Af...

Policy Paper (Interest) 01 This paper addresses two questions. The ...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper