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SAMNet

JEL code: E27

Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications

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

How do we explain the persistently high rate of unemployment in South Africa? Exploring...

Our research attempted to quantify the magnitude of shifts in indus...

Marthinus C. Breitenbach, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

Policy Brief

Evaluation of the Effects of Reduced Personal and Corporate Tax Rates on the Growth Rat...

Using several variants of a Marshallian Macroeconomic Model (MMM), ...

Jacques K. Ngoie, Arnold Zellner

Working Paper

The Use of a Marshallian Macroeconomic Model for Policy Evaluation: Case of South Africa

Using a disaggregated Marshallian Macroeconomic Model (MMM-DA), thi...

Jacques K. Ngoie, Arnold Zellner

Working Paper

Forecasting the South African Economy: A DSGE-VAR Approach

This paper develops an estimable hybrid model that combines the mic...

Rangan Gupta, Guangling Liu, Eric Schaling

Working Paper

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