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.

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