Marea Sing
Economics Directorate
Biography
Marea was the Acting Manager of the Modelling and Research teams, and an Adviser in the forecasting team. She is currently on secondment as Principal Adviser in the Data, Statistics and Analytics Department, and has previous experience in macroeconomic modelling and macroprudential policy from her time at the South African Reserve Bank. She has an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a MIT in Big Data Science from the University of Pretoria.
Email: [email protected]
Current research interests
- Machine-learning and deep-learning
- Granular data
- Microdata
- Distributional impacts of macroeconomic policy
- Structural and empirical macroeconomic modelling
Recent publications
- Sing, M and Zheng, G (2023) “Sectoral Reallocation and Income Growth in the Labour Market During the COVID-19 Pandemic” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Analytical Notes, May 2023, AN2023-01
- Sing, M and Bohm, T (2022) “Evaluating the Reserve Bank’s Forecasting Performance” Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, Vol. 85, No. 4
- Sing, M and Chatterjee, S (2021) “Measuring systemic risk in South African banks” South African Reserve Bank Working Paper Series, April 2021, WP/21/04
- Sing, M, Nesengani, N and Steinbach, R (2017) “Animal spirits and the hangover in private sector investment” South African Reserve Bank Occasional Bulletin of Economic Notes, January 2017, OBEN/2017/03