Q2 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: Q2

The South African - United States Sovereign Bond Spread and its Association with Macroe...

The yield spread of South African to United States 10 year governme...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Consumer Preferences for Genetically Modified Organisms in Cape Town: A Choice Experime...

This paper reports a study done on Cape Town consumers, with the ai...

Herbert Ntuli, Benjamin Dovey

Working Paper

Confronting South Africa’s Water Challenge: A Decomposition Analysis of Water Intensity

Water resource intensity measures the intensity of water use in ter...

Marcel Kohler

Policy Brief

Towards conserving the rhino: an economic analysis

Populations of southern white (Ceratotherium simmum simmum) and bla...

James N. Blignaut, Douglas J. Crookes

Policy Brief

Debunking the myth that a legal trade will solve the rhino horn crisis: A system dynami...

There is considerable debate in the literature over whether or not ...

James N. Blignaut, Douglas J. Crookes

Working Paper

A categorisation and evaluation of rhino management policies

Rhino populations are at a critical level and new approaches are ne...

James N. Blignaut, Douglas J. Crookes

Working Paper

Resistance to the Regulation of Common Resources in Rural Tunisia

We examine the effect of the introduction of uniform water-charging...

Timothy Swanson, Xiaoying Liu, Mare Sarr

Working Paper

Managing Some Motorised Recreational Boating Challenges in South African Estuaries: A C...

Estuaries in South Africa face negative crowding effects with respe...

Stephen G. Hosking, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

Valuing User Preferences for Improvements in Public Nature Trails Around the Sundays Ri...

Many valuations have been made of changes to in-estuary attributes ...

Stephen G. Hosking, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

Improving navigability on the Kromme river Estuary: A choice experiment application

Navigation of estuaries is a vitally important aspect of boating re...

Stephen G. Hosking, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

Estimating the willingness to pay for the removal of a local undesirable land use: The ...

This paper examines the Nelson Mandela Bay public’s willingness to ...

Leann Cloete, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

A comparative analysis of the synchronisation of business cycles for developed and deve...

Globalisation brought about worldwide changes, including economic a...

James N. Blignaut, Ilse Botha, Douglas J. Crookes

Working Paper

ERSA Training Workshop on Bioeconomic Modelling of Natural Resource Use

ERSA and the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town inv...

Workshop