C33 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: C33

Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Models with Panel Data; Longitudinal Data; Spatial Time Series

Big data forecasting of South African inflation

We investigate whether the use of machine learning techniques and b...

Rulof P. Burger, Neil Rankin, Kevin Kotze, Byron Botha

Working Paper

Government religious preference and intrastate conflict

Understanding the causes and consequences of conflicts continues to...

Matthew W. Clance, Eduard van der Merwe, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Understanding the behaviour of house prices and household income per capita in South Af...

Homeownership by the lower and middle-income households is crucial ...

Pieter Opperman, Anthanasius F. Tita

Working Paper

Financial development and income inequality: a nonlinear econometric analysis of 21 Afr...

A panel data analysis of financial inequality was conducted using t...

Lindokuhle T. Zungu, Lorraine Greyling

Working Paper

Inequality in South Africa: what does a composite index of wellbeing reveal?

Policymakers need better information regarding wellbeing inequality...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

Access to micro and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of poo...

Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigated the possi...

Talita Dalton-Greyling

Policy Brief

Access to micro – and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of p...

Background: Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigat...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan African: Does Sectora...

The role of financial sector development in economic growth has rec...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Policy Brief

Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth in sub–Saharan Africa: Does Sectoral...

This paper examines the overall economic growth effect when the gro...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Working Paper

Regional disparities in income-independent quality of life in South Africa: convergence...

The purpose of this study is to add to the empirical literature reg...

Trust R. Mpofu, Stephanié Rossouw, Talita Dalton-Greyling

Working Paper

Disentangling the exchange rate risk, sectoral export flows and financial development n...

This paper examines the differential responses of various emerging ...

Anmar Pretorius, Heinrich Nel

Working Paper

Non-Economic Quality of Life and Population Density in South Africa

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship betwee...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

Nowcasting Real GDP growth in South Africa

This paper uses nowcasting to forecast real GDP growth in South Afr...

Elmarie Nel, Franz Ruch, Alain Kabundi

Policy Brief

Occidental Rationalism: Its Early Impact on the Foundations of Modern Science

Rationalist thought has had a deep and lasting impact on modern civ...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

Do Capital Requirements Affect Cost of Intermediation? Evidence from a Panel of South A...

Since the 2007 sub-prime financial crisis, world bank capital ratio...

Andrew Maredza

Working Paper

Real convergence using TAR panel unit root tests: an application to Southern African De...

The recent European Union crisis has sparked renewed interest in th...

Christian K. Tipoy

Working Paper

Important Channels of Transmission Monetary Policy Shock in South Africa

This paper investigates the di¤erent channels of transmission of mo...

Nombulelo Gumata, Eliphas Ndou, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

The Impact of Economic Freedom on Economic Growth in the SADC: An Individual Component ...

The SADC is attempting to achieve development and economic growth. ...

Vsevolod I. Gorlach, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification D...

To the extent that diversifying income portfolio is used as a strat...

Mare Sarr, Mintewab Bezabih

Working Paper

Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Af...

To the extent that in utero and childhood malnutrition negatively a...

Julius A. Agbor, Gregory N. Price

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Price Discovery and Price Risk Management Before and After Deregulation of the South Af...

The withdrawal of the Maize Board in 1996 meant that farmers could ...

Alexander Behar

Working Paper

Remittances and the Dutch disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. A Dynamic Panel Approach

This paper investigates the effect of remittance inflows on the rea...

Reneé van Eyden, Francis M. Kemegue, Emmanuel Owusu-Sekyere

Working Paper

Could we have predicted the recent downturn in the South African Housing Market?

This paper develops large-scale Bayesian Vector Autoregressive (BVA...

Sonali Das, Rangan Gupta, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

A Large Factor Model for Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables in South Africa

This paper uses large Factor Models (FMs) which accommodates a larg...

Rangan Gupta, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

Is a DFM well suited for forecasting regional house price inflation?

This paper uses the Dynamic Factor Model (DFM) framework, which acc...

Sonali Das, Rangan Gupta, Alain Kabundi

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