O4 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O4

Taxpayer responsiveness to taxation: Evidence from bunching at kink points of the South...

I apply the bunching methodology to South African administrative ta...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

Phases of higher education, tuition grants, and equity-efficiency tradeoff

We study how taxes and alternative higher education subsidies affec...

Yoseph Y. Getachew

Working Paper

Part 4: Towards a fiscal policy that supports economic recovery while achieving sustain...

Drawing on the discussions in the previous 3 sessions, session 4 wi...

Matthew Simmonds, Ricardo Hausmann, Laurence Harris, Johannes W. Fedderke, Federico Sturzenegger, Abebe Selassie

Dialogue

Part 2: Financing the budget in the post-Corona world

Matthew delves into what financing the budget deficit in the post-C...

Brian Kantor, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Mamokete Lijane, Lucio Castro, Ian Stuart

Dialogue

Part 1: Understanding the concept of "fiscal sustainability" in the post-Corona world

Debt sustainability is equivalent to government solvency and from a...

Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Ian Stuart, Mamokete Lijane, Brian Kantor, Xavier Debrun, Lucio Castro

Dialogue

Exploring evidence of spatial economic agglomeration in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municip...

Since Marshall’s (1890) work on industrial districts in 19^{t...

Koech Cheruiyot

Working Paper

Institutions and Other Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

The primacy of factors of production, such as labour and capital, o...

Olusegun A. Akanbi, David Fadiran

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

Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanantions

This paper examines the nature and sources of productivity growth i...

Yang Liu, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Does Massive Research Funding Work?: Lessons from South Africa

Does research output increase significantly when funding allocation...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Marcela Goldschmidt

Policy Brief

Optimal Public Investment, Growth, and Consumption: Fresh Evidence from African Countries

This paper develops a model positing a nonlinear relationship betwe...

Augustin K. Fosu, Yoseph Y. Getachew, Thomas H. W. Ziesemer

Working Paper

Diagnosing Deep Roots of Development: Genetic, Disease and Environmental Factors

We examine the association between indicators of real GDP per capit...

Valerio Napolioni, Robert E. Klitgaard, Johannes W. Fedderke, James P. MacMurray

Working Paper

Does Massive Funding Support of Researchers Work?: Evaluating the Impact of the South A...

Does knowledge and innovation need to come with a big price tag? Th...

Johannes W. Fedderke, M. Velez

Working Paper

South Africa’s Electricity Consumption: A Sectoral Decomposition Analysis

South Africa’s electricity consumption has increased sharply ...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, James N. Blignaut

Working Paper

Does Human Generate Social and Institutional Capital? Exploring Evidence From Time Seri...

This paper presents an analysis of the interaction of human capital...

Johannes W. Fedderke, John M. Luiz

Working Paper

The contribution of growth in total factor productivity to growth in South Africa: 1970-97

Policy Paper (Interest) 16 This paper is concerned with revealing t...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper