Non-academic writing

Hiring two Research Assistants based in South Africa who can access data servers in Pretoria. Application details included inside.

In the Business Day, I argued that receipts from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) to non-South Africa SACU member states are too volatile. I suggested that that volatility is both undesirable and reparable. Further, I contended that the frictions of cross border good transportation, attendant to SACU’s 2002 revenue sharing agreement, are welfare reducing and addressable.

In the financial mail I argued evidence from swap markets suggests currency mismatches between revenues and liabilities in South Africa's corporate sector are responsible for some of RSA's sovereign debt woes. Replicating Du & Schreger (2016) I examine the local currency spread South Africa pays for sovereign borrowing and share a perspective on what the evidence implies.

A case against subsidizing airline equity holders, written with Muttable Matter.

A policy brief on the importance for policy of theoretical research on the global demand curve for antiretrovival therapies for HIV. Written with Michael Kremer and Chris Snyder.