Financial technology has developed rapidly in many developing count...
Giorgia Barboni, Giorgia Barboni, Allan Davids, Co-Pierre Georg, Willem H. Boshoff, Lukasz Grzybowski, Lucas A. Mariani
Seminar
Call for Papers: Workshop on Financial Technology and Development
Financial technology has developed rapidly in many developing count...
Submit paper: 14 July 2023
Call for Papers
Competition policy and regulation in digital markets
A 1-day ERSA workshop took place on 30th September 2022 in Stellen...
Zubair Patel, Yegnanew Shiferaw, Wihan Marais, Wawa Nkosi, Prince Changole, Petrus Potgieter, Paul Dunn, Megan Friday, Lukasz Grzybowski, Julius Nyamwena, Jan-Louis van Tonder, Grace Nsomba, Elvis K. Avenyo, Dumakude Nxumalo, Alexander Zimper
Workshop
Understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance
Policy Paper 26
South Africa’s exports have lagged behind the rest ...
Matthew Stern, Yash Ramkolowan
Policy Paper
Fiscal risks and their impact on banks’ capital buffers in South Africa
South Africa’s fiscal balances have deteriorated significantly over...
Bojosi Morule, Neryvia Pillay Bell, Konstantin Makrelov
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
The effect of cigarette price changes on smoking prevalence by gender: The case of Sout...
South Africa successfully reduced smoking prevalence by substantial...
Corné van Walbeek, Nicole Vellios, Zachary Gitonga
Working Paper
Time consistency and economic growth: A case study of South African macroeconomic policy
The numerous diagnostic studies and policy recommendations that exi...
Konstantin Makrelov, David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald
Working Paper
The time-varying elasticity of South African electricity demand: 1980–2018
This study estimates the price and income elasticity coefficients o...
Kabelo Masike, Cobus Vermeulen
Working Paper
Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy
Some of the most contested questions in political science and polit...
Martin Rode, Christian Bjørnskov
Working Paper
Contagion without deposit insurance: The South African small bank crisis of 2002/3
Following the failure of Saambou bank in February 2002, another sev...
Roy Havemann
Working Paper
The optimal monetary and macroprudential policies for the South African economy
We investigate the optimal design and effectiveness of monetary and...
Thabang Molisey, Guangling Liu
Working Paper
Is Basel III counter-cyclical: The case of South Africa?
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with bankin...
Thabang Molisey, Guangling Liu
Working Paper
The Demand for Cigarettes: New Evidence from South Africa
This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for cigaret...
Alfred K. Mukong, Ernest N. Tingum
Working Paper
The Elasticity of Taxable Income: The case of South Africa
A central tax policy parameter that has received much attention int...
Johannes H. Kemp
Working Paper
Welfare analysis of bank capital requirements with endogenous default
This paper presents a tractable framework with endogenous default a...
Fernando Garcia-Barragan, Guangling Liu
Working Paper
Can bank capital adequacy changes amplify the business cycle in South Africa?
The phenomenon of bank regulation procyclicality requires very care...
Sylvanus Ikhide, Foluso Akinsola
Policy Brief
Financial Reforms and the Finance –Growth Relationship in the Southern African Developm...
The role of finance in economic growth in SADC has been downplayed ...
Gift Mugano, Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara
Policy Brief
Financial Reforms and the Finance-Growth Relationship in the Southern African Developme...
The role of finance in economic growth in SADC has been downplayed ...
Gift Mugano, Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara
Policy Brief
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
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most Central of Them All?
In academia, informal collaboration is an integral element in the p...
Michael E. Rose, Co-Pierre Georg
Working Paper
The effectiveness of countercyclical capital requirements and contingent convertible ca...
This paper studies the effectiveness of countercyclical capital req...
Hylton Hollander
Working Paper
Do Capital Requirements Affect Cost of Intermediation? Evidence from a Panel of South A...
Since the 2007 sub-prime financial crisis, world bank capital ratio...
Andrew Maredza
Working Paper
Social networks and maternal health care utilisation in Tanzania
Social networks are increasingly being recognised as having an impo...
Justine Burns, Alfred K. Mukong
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
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
The Impact of Economic Freedom on Economic Growth in the SADC: An Individual Component ...
The SADC is attempting to achieve development and economic growth. ...
Vsevolod I. Gorlach, Pierre Le Roux
Working Paper
Time Series and Competition Policy
Time-series tools are often employed in competition law investigati...
ERSA
Workshop
Quantitative Techniques for Competition Analysis
This workshop introduces basic methods of demand estimation for the...
Event: 29 March 2012
ERSA
Workshop
Consumer demand for alcoholic beverages and tobacco in Lesotho: A double-hurdle approach
In this paper, we estimate income elasticities and investigate the ...
Ramaele Moshoeshoe
Working Paper
The Consistency of Merger Decisions in a Developing Country: The South African Competit...
The South African Competition Commission’s merger decisions f...
Richard J. Grimbeek, Sunel Grimbeek, Steven F. Koch
Working Paper
Business Cycle and Bank Capital Regulation: Basel II Procyclicality
This paper studies the impacts of bank capital regulation on busine...
Nkhahle E. Seeiso, Guangling Liu
Working Paper
Social Networks and Ethnic Niches: An Econometric Analysis of the Manufacturing Sector ...
This paper analyses the link between social networks and ethnic occ...
Andre Hofmeyr
Working Paper
Trade and Industrial Organization Workshop 2: Econometric Methods for Industrial Organi...
This one-and-a-half day workshop will be presented by Jim Levinsohn...
Jim Levinsohn
Workshop
Market Regulation and Agricultural development
Policy Paper (Interest) 10
Those analysts who favour deregulation i...
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