C51 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: C51

Model Construction and Estimation

Tax effort and capacity in developing countries: Unravelling the impact of the informal...

Working paper 889 This study focuses on estimating the tax effort i...

Ezekiel Lengaram

Working Paper

The long-term effects of early-life exposure to weather shocks: Evidence from Tanzania

We examine whether early-life exposure to rainfall shocks has a lon...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet

Working Paper

Has the Exchange Rate Pass-Through changed in South Africa?

This paper uses the two-stage exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) fra...

Asi Mbelu, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

Construction, institutions and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

The construction sector in developing countries has propelled econo...

Jones O. Mensah, Paul Alagidede

Policy Brief

Estimating a Phillips Curve for South Africa: A Bounded Random Walk Approach

In this paper we estimate a Phillips curve for South Africa using a...

Modeste Some, Eric Schaling, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

Trade Linkages and Business Cycle Co-movement: An Empirical Analysis of Africa and its ...

This paper assesses the extent of trade linkages and shock transmis...

Emilie C. Kinfack-Djoumessi, Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

Working Paper

Financial Stress Indicator Variables and Monetary Policy in South Africa

This paper analyses the relationship between financial stress indic...

Leroi Raputsoane

Working Paper

Financial Stress Indicator Variables and Monetary Policy in South Africa

This paper analyses the relationship between financial stress indic...

Leroi Raputsoane

Working Paper

Monetary Policy and Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations in South Africa

This paper examines the relationship between ination and ination ...

Alain Kabundi, Modeste Some, Eric Schaling

Working Paper

Debt sustainability and financial crises in South Africa

This study assesses debt sustainability in South Africa allowing fo...

Ruthira Naraidoo, Leroi Raputsoane

Working Paper

Time-Varying Parameter in the Almost Ideal Demand System and the Rotterdam Model: Will ...

This paper assesses the ability of the Rotterdam model and of three...

William A. Barnett, Isaac Kalonda-Kanyama

Working Paper

Quantitative Techniques for Competition Analysis

This workshop introduces basic methods of demand estimation for the...

Event: 29 March 2012

ERSA

Workshop

Trade Shocks from BRIC to South Africa: A Global VAR Analysis

This paper studies the trade linkages between South Africa and the ...

Mustafa Y. Çakir, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

Fiscal regime changes and the sustainability of fiscal imbalance in South Africa; a smo...

In addition to the conventional linear cointegration test, this pap...

Niek J. Schoeman, Samuel S. Jibao, Ruthira Naraidoo

Working Paper

Forecasting Monetary Policy Rules in South Africa

This paper is the first one to: (i) provide in-sample estimates of ...

Ivan Paya, Ruthira Naraidoo

Working Paper