E23 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: E23

Macroeconomics: Production

Request for Proposals: Back to inflation

Back to inflation In the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC),...

Call for Work

Cities, productivity and Jobs in SA: Problems and potential

Discussion Document 12 Cities contribute to national prosperity bec...

Ivan Turok, Justin Visagie

Discussion Document

Productivity estimates for South Africa from CES production functions

This paper provides estimates of the elasticity of substitution and...

Daan Steenkamp

Working Paper

Decomposition of the Technical Efficiency: Pure Technical and Scale Efficiency of the F...

The study investigated the technical efficiency of the commercial b...

Sanderson Abel, Alex Bara

Policy Brief

Estimating South Africa's output gap and potential growth rate

The potential output of an economy is an unobservable variable whic...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Daniel K. Mengisteab

Policy Brief

Estimating South Africa’s output gap and potential growth rate

Policy Paper 21 This paper estimates the potential output of the So...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Daniel K. Mengisteab

Policy Paper

Production, Inequality and Poverty linkages in South Africa

The Kuznets inequality-development hypothesis can be tested with ti...

Nicholas Ngepah

Working Paper

Social Ingredients and Conditional Convergence in the Study of Sectoral Growth

In this research article, we investigate the improved modelling abi...

Charlotte du Toit, Reneé van Eyden, Jacques K. Ngoie

Working Paper