Keyword: Firms and Development

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...
Margaux Giannaros, 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 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 Liu
Working Paper
The Welfare Cost of Sovereign Default and Liquidity Injections
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with endoge...
Guangling Liu
Working Paper
The Welfare Cost of Sovereign Default and Liquidity Injections
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with endoge...
Guangling 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 Liu
Working Paper