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The Decade of Distraction: The impact of capital flows on economic policy making

Economic Note

Christopher Loewald

Economic Notes

Assessing the Impact of Environmental Policies on South African Trade

Discussion Document 16 South Africa’s economy is highly reliant ...

Gracelin Baskaran

Discussion Document

2nd ERSA/CEPR Workshop on Macroeconomic Policy in Emerging Markets

Conference Date and Location: 25-26 January 2024, Pretoria, South ...

Submit paper: 15 July 2022

SAMNet Workshop

Delivering a difficult MTBPS

Running up to the elections next year, this was a difficult MTBPS t...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Call for papers: 2nd ERSA/CEPR Workshop on Macroeconomic Policy in Emerging Markets

Conference Date and Location: 25-26 January 2024, Pretoria, South ...

Submit paper: 15 July 2022

Call for Papers

Tax effort and capacity in developing countries: Unravelling the impact of the informal...

Working paper 889 This study focuses on estimating the tax effort i...

Ezekiel Lengaram

Working Paper

Foresight Africa 2023: Presentation

Brookings Institution’s Flagship Foresight Africa 2023 was wr...

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Workshop Presentation

Foresight Africa 2023: A Southern African Perspective

Please join the Brookings Institution and Economics Research Southe...

Haroon Bhorat, Matthew Simmonds, Mamokete Lijane, Will Pearson, Aloysius Uche Ordu, Gracelin Baskaran

Dialogue

South African Modelling Network (SAMNET) Virtual Workshop: Emerging Markets back in the...

Background and Objective: Emerging markets have been out of the new...

Laura Alfaro, Javier Bianchi

SAMNet Workshop

Call for papers: Emerging Markets back in the spotlight - Risks and policy options

Background and Objective: Emerging markets have been out of the new...

Submit paper: 15 July 2022

Laura Alfaro, Javier Bianchi

Call for SAMNet Papers

Timothy Köhler on SA’s labour market: is a national lockdown as severe as we think?

It is just over a year since South Africa had to succumb to what wa...

Timothy Köhler

Podcast

Isaah Mhlanga on SA Budget 2021: Good news from SA’s 2020 Monetary and Fiscal Policy De...

Joining ERSA’s host in this podcast is Isaah Mhlanga, a Chief Econo...

Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Prof Scott Baker on measuring economic policy uncertainty: yes, measuring uncertainty

Levels of uncertainty have existed throughout time yet measuring un...

Scott Baker

Podcast

Dr Chris Loewald on Lockdown Learnings: monetary policy leeway during a pandemic

Shortly after the October MPR, ERSA’s host sat down with Dr Chris L...

Podcast

Prof. Nicola Viegi on SAMNet: a new economic modelling network is born

Adapting to the times, ERSA introduces its new initiative – the Sou...

Nicola Viegi

Podcast

Part 4: Towards a fiscal policy that supports economic recovery while achieving sustain...

Drawing on the discussions in the previous 3 sessions, session 4 wi...

Matthew Simmonds, Ricardo Hausmann, Laurence Harris, Johannes W. Fedderke, Federico Sturzenegger, Abebe Selassie

Dialogue

Part 3: The role of fiscal policy in the post-Corona economic recovery

South Africa has a comparably large government sector, and the choi...

Christopher Loewald, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Mamokete Lijane, Gilad Isaacs, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrew Donaldson

Dialogue

Part 2: Financing the budget in the post-Corona world

Matthew delves into what financing the budget deficit in the post-C...

Brian Kantor, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Mamokete Lijane, Lucio Castro, Ian Stuart

Dialogue

Part 1: Understanding the concept of "fiscal sustainability" in the post-Corona world

Debt sustainability is equivalent to government solvency and from a...

Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Ian Stuart, Mamokete Lijane, Brian Kantor, Xavier Debrun, Lucio Castro

Dialogue

Nicola Viegi on the South African economic response to the Coronavirus: policies and pr...

Nicola Viegi, Deputy Director of ERSA, talks with Margaux G on the ...

Nicola Viegi

Podcast

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

Shaping macroeconomic outcomes

Policy Paper 23 By early 2016, financial market participants had be...

Christopher Loewald

Policy Paper

National minimum wage in South Africa: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis

This paper analyses the economy-wide impact of the national minimum...

Jean L. Erero

Policy Brief

Diagnosing Deep Roots of Development: Genetic, Disease and Environmental Factors

We examine the association between indicators of real GDP per capit...

Valerio Napolioni, Robert E. Klitgaard, Johannes W. Fedderke, James P. MacMurray

Working Paper

Achieving Higher Growth and Employment: Policy options for South Africa

Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model, the paper pro...

David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald, Konstantin Makrelov

Working Paper

Higher education

Policy Paper 05 Statistical information on the output of universiti...

Charles Simkins

Policy Paper

From chimera to prospect: South African sources of and constraints on long-term growth,...

Policy Paper 01 The paper takes stock of South Africa’s past growth...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

Higher levels of tax evasion in a corrupt economy, encourage policy making that hinders...

When amplified levels of corruption and reduced penalties for illeg...

Rangan Gupta, Emmanuel Ziramba

Policy Brief

From uneducating to educating South Africa: Some thoughts on new policy imperatives in ...

Policy Paper (Interest) 08 This paper examines the policy implicati...

Policy Paper