Witness Simbanegavi | Economic Research Southern Africa

Contributor Name: Witness Simbanegavi

Witness Simbanegavi is a Lead Economist at the South African Reserve Bank and his research interest is in Industrial economics, microeconomics, international trade and economic development.

The Covid Project: Building back for a sustainable future

The discussion is based on two papers: “Building back fairer ...

Wandile Sihlobo, Tendai Gwatidzo, Ann Bernstein, Channing Arndt, Matthew Simmonds, Witness Simbanegavi

The Covid Project: Recovery policies and labour utilization

The discussion is based on two research papers: Recovering from COV...

Andreas Wörgötter, Murray Leibbrandt, Romain A. Duval, Sherwin Gabriel, Witness Simbanegavi, Matthew Simmonds

Building a competitive and dynamic green industrial sector in South Africa after COVID-19

Policy Paper 28 COVID-19 gave the world a glimpse of how devastatin...

Tendai Gwatidzo, Witness Simbanegavi

Policy Paper

Endogenous market transparency and product differentiation

This paper endogenizes both market transparency and product differe...

Witness Simbanegavi

Working Paper

South African manufacturing industry structure and its implications for competition policy

This paper surveys the literature on the manufacturing sector in So...

Witness Simbanegavi, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Loss leader or low margin leader? Advertising and the degree of product differentiation

This paper attempts to isolate the conditions that give rise to los...

Witness Simbanegavi

Working Paper

Price Elasticities and Pricing Power in Emerging Markets: The Case of Petrochemicals De...

This paper examines whether there necessarily exists a conflict bet...

Witness Simbanegavi, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Exchange Rates and Product Variety

We study the role of exchange rate variability in the firm’s ...

Witness Simbanegavi

Working Paper

Equilibrium Pricing When Only Some Goods Are Advertised

We study how price advertising of a subset of products aspects equi...

Witness Simbanegavi

Working Paper

Informative Advertising: Competition or Cooperation?

I compare the outcome when firms semicollude on advertising to the ...

Witness Simbanegavi

Working Paper