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The Cape of Perfect Storms: Colonial Africa’s first financial crash, 1788-1793
Havemann, Roy; Fourie, Johan - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2015
This paper investigates the causes and consequences of colonial Africa’s first financial crash, which happened in South Africa’s Dutch Cape Colony. The 1788–1793 crisis followed a common sequence of events: trade and fiscal deficits were monetized by printing money, credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265449
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Towards a Measure of Core Inflation using Singular Spectrum Analysis
Ruch, Franz; Bester, Dirk - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
This paper constructs a number of possible core measures of annual inflation using Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA). Annual inflation is decomposed into its trend, oscillating and noise components in order to develop an understanding of the trend and cyclicality in South African headline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369291
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How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in sub-Saharan Africa?
Agbor, J.A.; Fedderke, J. W.; Viegi, N. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2010
This paper investigates the channels through which colonial origin affects economic outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516088
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Anatomy of the Southern African Customs Union: Structure and Revenue Volatility
Ngalawa, Harold P.E. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
possible springboard for larger regional trading blocs in Africa. The study further explores evidence of declining SACU revenue … instabilities arising from global business cycles more than it does South Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133861
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty in South Africa
Redl, Chris - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2015
This paper develops a new index of economic uncertainty for South Africa for the period 1990-2014 and analyses the … count of international and local newspaper articles discussing economic uncertainty in South Africa and (3) mentions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204514
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South African Manufacturing Industry Structure and its Implications for Competition Policy
Fedderke, Johannes; Simbanegavi, Witness - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
This paper surveys the literature on the manufacturing sector in South Africa, focusing on concentration and markup … markups in South Africa are significantly higher than they are in comparable industries world-wide and they appear to be non …, investment and export and import competitiveness on the other. We then draw implications for competition policy in South Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563278
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The Empirics of Banking Regulation
Tchana, Fulbert Tchana - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2009
This paper empirically assesses whether banking regulation is effective at preventing banking crises. We use a monthly index of banking system fragility, which captures almost every source of risk in the banking system, to estimate the effect of regulatory measures (entry restriction, reserve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563293
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Financial Development and Inequality: Brazil 1985-1994
Bittencourt, Manoel - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
We examine the impact of financial development on earnings inequality in Brazil in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. The evidence - based on panel time-series data and analysis - shows that financial development had a significant and robust effect in reducing inequality during the period....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563300
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Construction and analysis of a composite quality of life index for a region of South Africa
Dalton-Greyling, Talita; Tregenna, Fiona - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
This study employs a novel approach to measure and analyse quality of life in the Gauteng City-Region of South Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133817
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A Network Analysis of the Evolution of the German Interbank Market
Roukny, Tarik; Georg, Co-Pierre; Battiston, Stefano - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
In this paper, we report a descriptive investigation of the structural evolution of two of the most important over-the-counter markets for liquidity in Germany: the interbank market for credit and for derivatives. We use end-of-quarter data from the German large credit register between 2002 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929137