Hylton Hollander

Senior Lecturer

Title: Dr
Email: [protected email address]
Phone: +27 21 808 2478
Office: Schumann 508

Research interests:

International macro-finance | Financial frictions in macroeconomic models | Monetary theory & policy | Sovereign debt & fiscal policy | Financial (in)stability | Macroeconomics of distribution & growth

Courses lectured:

Published research:

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Working Papers (*Revise & resubmit; **Accepted):

"A medium-sized, open-economy, fiscal DSGE model of South Africa" (with J.H. Kemp), WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-92, World Institute for Development Economic Research, (2020), DOI.

"Debt-financed fiscal stimulus in South Africa", WIDER Working Paper Series WP-2021-152, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), (2021), DOI.*

"Fiscal policy in times of fiscal stress (or what to do when r >g )" (with R. Havemann), WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research, (2022), DOI.*

"The macroeconomics of establishing a basic income grant in South Africa" (with R. Havemann and D. Steenkamp), ERSA Working Paper Series 881, Economic Research Southern Africa, (2022), URI.**

"A deep learning approach to estimation of the Phillips Curve in South Africa" (with G. Du Rand and D. Van Lill), WIDERWorking Paper, World Institute for Development Economic Research, (2023), DOI.*

"Time-varying fiscal multipliers for South Africa: A large time-varying parameter vector autoregression approach" (with G. Du Rand and D. Van Lill), WIDER Working Paper, World Institute for Development Economic Research, (2023), DOI.

Works-in-progress:

"Large Scale Asset Purchases and Financial Stability" (with Dawie van Lill)

"Fiscal policy and dimensions of inequality in South Africa" (with J. Terblanche. and D. van Lill)

"The Management of Capital Flows and Financial Stability" (with David de Villiers and Dawie van Lill)

"Using Apple Product Prices to Evaluate the Law of One Price and Product Derived Real Exchange Rates" (with Rick Walker and Dawie van Lill)

"The Trade and Financial Channels of External Adjustment" (with Bernard Njiri, SU)

Capacity building:

In the pipeline: Macroeconometrics workshop for policymakers and graduate students (with D. van Lill); The National Treasury DSGE model - "Government debt and interest rates" and "Fiscal sustainability and optimal policy" (see recorded presentation)