Ms Daryl Collins

Research and Publications

Project Director, South African Labour and Development Research Unit. Currently directing year-long Financial Diaries project, which tracks the financial management of poor households in three locations in South Africa.

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Published Papers

• Collins, D. and Biekpe, N. (2003) "Contagion: A Fear for African Stock Markets?" Journal of Economics and Business, vol 55. To view the paper, click here
• Collins, D. and Biekpe, N. (2003) "Contagion and interdependence in African stock markets" South African Journal of Economics, 71(1) March. To view the paper, click here
• Collins, D. (2001) "The Relationship Between Business Confidence Surveys and Stock Market Performance. Investment Analysts Journal (South Africa, volume 54). To view the paper, click here

Working Papers and Conference Presentations

• "Measuring Global Market Integration in African Equity Markets" with Mark Abrahamson, presented to the African Finance and Economics Association at the American Economics Association annual meetings in Washington D.C., January 2003.
• "Measuring Cost of Equity in African Financial Markets", presented at the Finance for Growth and Poverty Reduction conference at the University of Manchester, UK, April 2002.
• "Estimating and Interpreting Equity Risk Premiums in Emerging Markets", presented at the Southern African Finance Association conference in Cape Town, South Africa, January 2002.
• "Measuring the Cost of Equity in African Financial Markets" with Mark Abrahamson, submitted to Journal of African Economies in June 2004. To view the paper, click here
• "Sector Level Contagion in African Financial Markets" with Mark Abrahamson, submitted to the African Finance Journal in June 2004. To view the paper, click here
• "African Financial Markets and the Process of Global Intergration" with Mark Abrahamson, submitted to the South African Journal of Economics in June 2004. To view the paper, click here
• "Measuring Equity Market Contagion in Multiple Financial Market Events" with Shana Gavron, submitted to the International Journal of Finance in May 2004. To view the paper, click here
• "Channels of Financial Market Contagion" with Shana Gavron, submitted to Applied Economics in May 2004. To view the paper, click here