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 determining the effects of financial stress.

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Eliphas Ndou holds a Doctorate Degree in Economics from the University of the Witwatersrand and lecture at this university international finance and currently lectures. Currently works at South African Reserve Bank as an economist. Nombulelo Gumata holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Johannesburg. She is an economist at the Reserve Bank of South Africa. She also lectures and tutors on part time basis at the Centre for Education in Economics and Finance Africa (CEEF.Africa). CEEF.Africa supports students who study with the University of London for degrees and diplomas in Economics and Finance. Students register with the University of London's distance learning programme and receive local comprehensive lecturing and tutoring and CEEF Africa.   Mthuli Ncube is Senior Research Fellow at University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government, UK. Between 2010 and 2014, he was Chief Economist and Vice President at the African Development Bank. He has also been Dean and Professor at Wits Business School, and Dean of Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He was a Lecturer in Finance at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published widely in the area of finance and economics. He also has extensive experience as an investment banker and regulator. He is Chairman of the African Economic Research Consortium. He holds a PhD in Economics (Mathematical Finance) from University of Cambridge, UK.