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The bond market impact of the South African Reserve Bank bond purchase programme

We use a unique dataset comprising over a million trades and quotes...

Roy Havemann, Rossouw van Jaarsveld, Henk Janse van Vuuren, Daan Steenkamp

Working Paper

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

‘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

Online Course on Empirical Industrial Organization (part II)

The purpose of this course is to introduce the methods of Empirical...

Submit paper: 1 May 2021

Melissa Newham, Lukasz Grzybowski

Graduate Training

Online Course on Empirical Industrial Organization (part I)

PURPOSE The purpose of this course is to introduce the methods of E...

Ryan Hawthrone, Melissa Newham, Lukasz Grzybowski

Online Course

Dominant Firms and the Economy by Thomas Philippon

The topic for the fourth virtual meeting is Dominant Firms and the ...

Thomas Philippon

Webinar

Policy Bulletin 04: Electricity reforms: Experience and approach

South Africa has been experiencing electricity shortages since 2008...

Christopher Loewald, Konstantin Makrelov, Andreas Wörgötter

Policy Bulletin

Nicola Viegi on the potential impact of the Coronavirus on South Africa: policy co-ordi...

In this podcast, Prof. Nicola Viegi, the Deputy Director of ERSA an...

Nicola Viegi

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

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

Shaking out or shaking in: The impact of Zimbabwe’s economic crisis on the country’s ma...

Following Zimbabwe’s economic crisis between 1997 and 2009, a...

Nicholas Masiyandima, Lawrence Edwards

Policy Brief

Skill Shortages as a Barrier to Women’s Start Ups: A Model with Evidence from Eswatini

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills, both perceived and actual,...

Zuzana Brixiová, Thierry Kangoye

Policy Brief

Shaking out or shaking in: The impact of Zimbabwe's economic crisis on the country's ma...

Zimbabwe had one of the world’s worst economic crises from th...

Nicholas Masiyandima, Lawrence Edwards

Working Paper

Changes in the Liquidity Effect Over Time: Evidence from Four Monetary Policy Regimes

Monetary policy, post Bretton Woods, saw the emergence of the short...

Dawid J. van Lill

Policy Brief

Capital controls and foreign currency denomination

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

Guangling Dave Liu, Fernando Garcia-Barragan

Working Paper

Intergenerational mobility during industrial take-off

Using a novel dataset of genealogical records, we make the first at...

Johan Fourie, Jeanne Cilliers

Policy Brief

What price level data tells us about consumer price rigidity in Zimbabwe: Evidence from...

Sometimes countries adopt new currencies which are not their own as...

Neil Rankin, Mike Nyawo

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

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

Working Paper

Confronting South Africa’s Water Challenge: A Decomposition Analysis of Water Intensity

Water resource intensity measures the intensity of water use in ter...

Marcel Kohler

Policy Brief

Foreign Firm Ownership and Productivity Spillovers in the Southern African Development ...

The study uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surve...

John P. Dunne, Nicholas Masiyandima

Working Paper

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

Trade Liberalization, Rival Exporters and Reallocation of Production: An Analysis of In...

Employing a difference-in-difference estimation technique on firm-l...

Lawrence Edwards, Asha Sundaram

Working Paper

Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on the Economics of Competition and Industr...

Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) funds annual workshops to ...

Submit paper: 31 July 2015

Joseph Harrington

Call for Papers

Call for Papers: 3rd International Workshop on the Economics of Competition and Industr...

The aim of the workshop is to consider theoretical and empirical ad...

Luke Froeb, Katja Seim, Caroline Buts

Call for Papers

Exploring Unbalanced Growth in South Africa: Understanding the Sectoral Structure of th...

This paper explores the reasons for the unbalanced growth structure...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

The Fundamental Determinants of Competitiveness in African Countries

This study investigates the drivers of competitiveness in African e...

Olumide Taiwo, Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

A Network Analysis of the Evolution of the German Interbank Market

In this paper, we report a descriptive investigation of the structu...

Stefano Battiston, Tarik Roukny, Co-Pierre Georg

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 Dave Liu

Working Paper

The Welfare Cost of Sovereign Default and Liquidity Injections

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

Guangling Dave Liu

Working Paper

The Welfare Cost of Sovereign Default and Liquidity Injections

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

Guangling Dave Liu

Working Paper

Price setting behaviour in Lesotho: Stylised facts from consumer retail prices

This paper documents some of the main features of price setting beh...

Mamello A. Nchake, Neil Rankin, Lawrence Edwards

Working Paper

An assessment of the performance of the Cameroon Water Corporation for the period 1967 ...

This paper assesses the performance of the Cameroon Water Corporati...

Saidou B. Oumar, Josue Mbonigaba

Working Paper

Industrial Organisation

Industrial organisation (IO) theory and empirical research provides...

University of Johannesburg

Workshop

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 Dave Liu

Working Paper