Keyword: Commodity prices

Competition policy and regulation in digital markets
A 1-day ERSA workshop took place on 30th September  2022 in Stellen...
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Isaah Mhlanga on permanent spending habits: what to listen for while politicians campaign
It is not often that a country has an opportunity to allocate windf...
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Income convergence in Southern Africa: A non-linear time-varying coefficients framework
This article investigated income per capita convergence in the Sout...
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Understanding the behaviour of house prices and household income per capita in South Af...
Homeownership by the lower and middle-income households is crucial ...
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Time consistency and economic growth: A case study of South African macroeconomic policy
The numerous diagnostic studies and policy recommendations that exi...
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Does Child Support Grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?
We consider the perverse incentive that can be created for poor hou...
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The effects of price and non-price policies on cigarette consumption in South Africa
The health consequences of smoking are serious and have been freque...
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Monetary policy in a model with commodity and financial market research brief
Uncovering the key drivers of business cycles of commodity exportin...
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Monetary policy in a model with commodity and financial market
This paper builds a small open economy model for a net commodity ex...
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‘The Prince and the Pauper’: The effect of inherited-wealth status on productivity in t...
This experiment contributes to the developing literature on the rel...
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The Demand for Cigarettes: New Evidence from South Africa
This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for cigaret...
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Measuring the Financial Cycle in South Africa
We measure the financial cycle in South Africa using three differen...
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Estimating a Philipps Curve for South Africa: A Bounded Random Walk Approach
Introduction The Phillips curve depicts the relationship between cu...
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Alternative Strategies for Public Debt Issuance in Zimbabwe: Is there a Trade off?
Introduction As part of managing a debt portfolio, debt managers fa...
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Simulation Analysis of Alternative Strategies for Public Debt Issuance in Zimbabwe: Is ...
This paper discusses the simulation analysis of alternative public ...
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Price-setting Behavior and Competition in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Retail O...
We study the relationship between price-setting behavior and the de...
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The Economic Value of Mountain Biking in the Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve, Eastern Cape, ...
This paper reports the first formal non-market valuation of mountai...
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Measuring Core Inflation in South Africa
Measures of core inflation convey critical information about an eco...
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A Disaggregated Analysis of Product Price Integration in the Southern African Developme...
Integrated product markets are characterised by the absence of (or ...
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Municipal assessments versus actual sales price information in hedonic price studies: A...
In most hedonic price model studies, the actual sales price of a pr...
Policy Brief
Nonparametric estimation of a hedonic price model: A South African case study
Parametric regression models of hedonic price functions suffer from...
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International Trade and Labour Demand Elasticities: Is there Any Empirical Evidence fro...
There are various pathways through which the impact of trade openne...
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Speculative Trade Equilibria with Incorrect Price Anticipations
This paper introduces an equilibrium concept for boundedly rational...
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Pricing of National Park Visits in Kenya: The Case of Lake Nakuru National Park
This study analyses the factors influencing pricing of National Par...
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Is Africa Integrating? Evidence from Product Markets
Integration into the global trading environment is viewed as a key ...
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Determining the impact of low-cost housing development on nearby property prices using ...
This paper presents an application of the conditional logit model t...
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The impact of social housing developments on nearby property prices: A Nelson Mandela B...
Social housing projects often face substantial “Not-in-my-backyard”...
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