This book offers new quantitative insights into how South African economy reacts to external economic shocks. The analysis includes focusing on economic growth and financial spill over, effects of capital inflows, contrasting the stock market price returns and volatility on economic growth and...

This book examines the macroeconomic and regulatory impact of domestic and international shocks on the South African economy resulting from the 2009 financial crisis. It also assesses the impact of the US economy’s eventual recovery from the crisis and the prospect of higher US interest rates...

Monetary Policy and the Economy in South Africa covers both modern theories and empirical analysis, linking monetary policy with relating house wealth, drivers of current account based on asset approach, expenditure switching and income absorption effects of monetary policy on trade balance,...

1 Introduction.- 2 Transmission Channels for Quantitative Easing and Effects on Interest Rates -- 3 The Central Bank Loss Function and Quantitative Easing as a Stackelberg Game -- 4 The Effect of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates -- 5 Broader Economic Effects on Quantitative Easing -- 6...