SASI-ERSA Savings Workshop 2009

The SASI-ERSA Savings Workshop took place this year on 04-05 August at the Reserve Bank Conference Centre. It was jointly hosted by the South African Savings Institute and Economic Research Southern Africa. Among the guests were policy makers, regulators and financial practitioners.

The presentations that were made are listed below:

• Savings: A Macro Perspective by Ahmed Jooma, National Treasury (PowerPoint doc -761KB)
• Macroeconomic Policy and Saving by Prof Johan van den Heever, South African Reserve Bank (PowerPoint doc -1.56MB)
• Saving, Growth and the National Account by Dan Steenkamp, National Treasury (PowerPoint doc -362KB)
• National Savings and Fiscal Policy in South Africa: an Empirical Analysis by Lumengo Bonga-Bonga, University of Johannesburg (PDF doc - 270KB)
• The Equity Premium and Risk Free Rate Puzzles in a Turbulent Economy by Shakill Hassan, University of Cape Town & Andrew Van Biljon, Exeter College, Oxford (PowerPoint doc - 582KB)
• Measuring Contagion under Simultaneity by Johannes Fedderke, ERSA & University of Cape Town (PDF doc - 445KB)
• How sensitive are estimates of the marginal propensity to consume to measurement error in survey data by Reza C. Daniels, University of Cape Town & Vimal Ranchhod, University of Cape Town (PowerPoint doc - 106KB)
• The Response of Consumption Expenditure to Anticipated Income Shocks by Albert Touna Mama, University of Cape Town (PDF doc - 47KB)
• Why are Private Pension Assets in South Africa declining? by Sheshi Kaniki, SASI & Momentum (PowerPoint doc - 610 KB)
• Incentivising Retirement Saving - A Waste of Money? by ASISA - Assocation for Savings & Investment SA (PowerPoint doc - 1.19MB)
• Retirement Date Effects on Savings Behaviour: The case of Non-Separable Preferences by Aylit Romm, University of Witwatersrand (PDF doc - 573KB)

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