O11 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O11

Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

The bond market impact of the South African Reserve Bank bond purchase programme

We use a unique dataset comprising over a million trades and quotes...

Roy Havemann, Rossouw van Jaarsveld, Henk Janse van Vuuren, Daan Steenkamp

Working Paper

Contagion across financial markets during COVID-19: A look at volatility spillovers bet...

The onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and previous...

Reneé van Eyden, Goodness C. Aye, Chevaughn van der Westhuizen

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

The Interdependence between the Saving Rate and Technology across Regimes: Evidence fro...

This paper hypothesises that the saving rate and technological prog...

Kevin S. Nell, Maria M. De Mello

Policy Brief

Measurement and analysis of the evolution of institutions in Nigeria

“Institutions matter” has become a generally accepted premise in de...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Mare Sarr, David O. Fadiran

Working Paper

Does Infrastructure Really Explain Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa?

In the light of Africa’s palpable deficit in public infrastructure,...

Odongo Kodongo, Kalu Ojah

Working Paper

The Impact of Basic and Social Infrastructure Investment on Economic Growth and Social ...

Basic and social infrastructure investment can assist in addressing...

Derick Blaauw, Talita Dalton-Greyling, Henk Gnade

Policy Brief

Path dependence and interdependence between institutions and development

Path dependence theory, within the institutions context, means that...

Mare Sarr, David Fadiran

Policy Brief

Bilateral Investment Treaties: An unfair proposition for Developing countries

After the explosive expansion of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Policy Brief

Conflict, Economic Growth and Spillover Effects in Africa

While there is a large empirical literature on the determinants of ...

John P. Dunne, Nan Tian

Working Paper

Financial Structure and Economic Development in Africa

This paper explores the relationship between economic development a...

Nyasha Mahonye, Kalu Ojah

Working Paper

The Fundamental Determinants of Competitiveness in African Countries

This study investigates the drivers of competitiveness in African e...

Olumide Taiwo, Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Climate change and economic growth in sub-Sahara Africa: A nonparametric evidence

Climate change has been classed as the greatest and urgent global i...

George Adu, Paul Alagidede

Working Paper

Democracy and Education: Evidence from the Southern African Development Community

In this paper I investigate whether democracy in the Southern Afric...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Construction of a Social Accounting Matrix for Chad

The use of Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) models to contribute t...

David S. Garber

Working Paper

Inflation and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Southern African Development Countries

In this paper we investigate the role of inflation rates in determi...

Reneé van Eyden, Monaheng Seleteng, Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Inflation and Economic Growth in the SADC: Some Panel Time-Series Evidence

In this paper we investigate the role of inflation rates in determi...

Reneé van Eyden, Monaheng Seleteng, Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect ...

Existing literature have rarely evaluated distributive effect of Jo...

Steven F. Koch, Edwin Muchapondwa, Dambala Gelo

Working Paper

Sources of Subsectoral Growth in South Africa

While South Africa’s growth performance has improved somewhat in re...

Fiona Tregenna

Working Paper

Economic Growth and Inequality: Evidence from the Young Democracies of South America

We investigate in this paper whether income growth has played any r...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Effects of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education on Conflict Intensity in Africa

This study investigates the impact of different dimensions of schoo...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Determinants of Government and External Debt: Evidence from the Young Democracies of So...

We investigate in this paper what are the main determinants of gove...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Young Democracies and Government Size: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper the hypothesis that when democracies a...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Policy change and economic growth: A case study of South Africa

Policy Paper 14 South Africa’s growth experience provides an exampl...

David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald

Policy Paper

From chimera to prospect: South African sources of and constraints on long-term growth,...

Policy Paper 01 The paper takes stock of South Africa’s past growth...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

Does School Education Reduce the Likelihood of Societal Conflict in Africa?

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that education, as meas...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Financial Development and Economic Growth in Latin America: Is Schumpeter Right?

In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or ...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

On the Looting of Nations

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of an unchecked ruler ma...

Erwin Bulte, Tim Swanson, Mare Sarr

Working Paper

Characterizing Conflict Forms

This paper presents a model in which two groups in society are enga...

Chandana Kularatne, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Macroeconomic performance and inequality: Brazil 1983-1994

We examine how poor macroeconomic performance, mainly in the role o...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Exchange rate pass-through to import prices in South Africa: Is there asymmetry?

We examine the impact of financial development on earnings inequali...

Nicolette Cattaneo, T. D. Karoro, Meshach J. Aziakpono

Working Paper

Exchange rate pass-through to import prices in South Africa: Is there asymmetry?

This paper examines the magnitude and speed of exchange rate pass-t...

Meshach J. Aziakpono, Nicolette Cattaneo, T. D. Karoro

Working Paper

Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from Brazil

We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Braz...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Currency Crises and Monetary Policy in an Economy with Credit Constraints: The Case for...

This paper revisits the currency crises model of Aghion, Bacchetta ...

Shakill Hassan

Working Paper

Impact of the Current Crisis on Development Thinking

Prof Bheki Sibiya, Director and Head of Wits Business School, cordi...

John Williamson

Workshop