Janine Aron

Biography

Janine Aron is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford and a Member of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Department of Economics, Oxford. She obtained her Bachelor, Honours and Master degrees in chemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and her M.Phil and D.Phil degrees in economics from Oxford University. She has been a member of the Department of Economics in Oxford since 1994, and previously worked at the World Bank. She was a Research Fellow of the South African Reserve Bank in 2018-2022, advising on financial stability issues, including a Review of the SARB’s biannual Financial Stability Review. Her research has covered monetary and exchange rate policy and macroeconomics, mobile money, and macroprudential issues around governance and communication. With John Muellbauer she has co-authored over 25 papers on monetary and macroprudential issues for South Africa since the late 1990s. Most recently, two commissioned papers for WIDER are on macroprudential governance in South Africa and on modelling the household sector.

Her survey on mobile money in the World Bank Research Observer was for many years one of the most read papers in that journal, and more recently she updated the survey for GSMA (representing the interests of mobile network operators worldwide). Earlier work with John Muellbauer included research on exchange rate pass-through and improving methods for forecasting inflation, and, during the pandemic, research on excess mortality. Research on UK housing (with John Muellbauer) includes "Modelling and forecasting mortgage delinquency and foreclosure in the UK" (Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 94, July 2016, pp.32–53), and several reports on arrears and repossessions for the UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Her 2012 paper with John V. Duca, Keiko Murata, Anthony Murphy and John Muellbauer, "Credit, Housing Collateral, and Consumption: Evidence from Japan, the U.K., and the U.S." received the 2014 Kendrick Prize. Her co-edited book: South African Economic Policy under Democracy was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press. Downloadable papers at http://ideas.repec.org/e/par29.html.