O55 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O55

The long-term effects of early-life exposure to weather shocks: Evidence from Tanzania

We examine whether early-life exposure to rainfall shocks has a lon...

Published: 29 April 2022

Working Paper

Big data forecasting of South African inflation

We investigate whether the use of machine learning techniques and b...

Published: 25 February 2022

Working Paper

Government religious preference and intrastate conflict

Understanding the causes and consequences of conflicts continues to...

Published: 26 August 2021

Working Paper

Differential corporate taxation and inter-asset investment distortions in South Africa

South Africa has since the 1990’s actively reformed its corpo...

Published: 18 June 2021

Working Paper

Corporate taxation and firm-level investment in South Africa

This paper investigates the responsiveness of firm-level investment...

Published: 15 June 2021

Working Paper

‘Learning to export’ and ‘learning to innovate’: Revisiting the relationship between in...

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and export ...

Published: 10 May 2021

Working Paper

The time-varying elasticity of South African electricity demand: 1980–2018

This study estimates the price and income elasticity coefficients o...

Published: 5 November 2020

Working Paper

Policy Bulletin 02: Reflections on Aspects of Public Finance and Fiscal Policy in South...

After the COVID-19 crisis is over, South Africa will face a fiscal ...

Published: 12 September 2020

Policy Bulletin