Consumer Behavior | Economic Research Southern Africa

Keyword: Consumer Behavior

Advanced Panel Data Econometrics Course

The objective of this course is to discuss the salient issues in th...

Course

Demographic changes and asset prices in an overlapping generations model

Working Paper 884 We examine the effect of demographic shifts on as...

Working Paper

Sanctioned quotas vs information provisioning for community wildlife conservation in Zi...

Working Paper 772 We investigate the behavioural responses of resou...

Journal Publication

Competition policy and regulation in digital markets

A 1-day ERSA workshop took place on 30th September 2022 in Stellen...

Workshop

Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia

Abstract: We exploit an unexpected increase in the Colombian insura...

Webinar

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

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

Working Paper

Isaah Mhlanga on a positive MTBPS: getting to know Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana

After our new Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered his first...

Podcast

Bridging the Divide Online Course: Fundamentals of Effective Communication

This course will comprise four sessions as follows: Sessions 1 and ...

BTD Online Course

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...

Podcast

Isaah Mhlanga on SA’s Budget Speech: adopting a business-friendly approach

After the challenges raised by Covid-19 and the increasing risks co...

Podcast

Indebted Demand by Amir Sufi

The topic for the third virtual meeting is ‘Indebted Demand&#...

Webinar

Dr Chris Loewald on Lockdown Learnings: monetary policy leeway during a pandemic

Shortly after the October MPR, ERSA’s host sat down with Dr Chris L...

Podcast

Isaah Mhlanga on why South Africa’s unemployment rate went down this Covid-Quarter

In this podcast, ERSA’s host speaks to Isaah Mhlanga, a Chief Econo...

Podcast

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...

Working Paper

Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

Some of the most contested questions in political science and polit...

Working Paper

The Effect of Tobacco and Alcohol Control Policies on Household Spending Patterns in Ke...

This paper examines the effect of tobacco and alcohol control polic...

Working Paper

Missing boys: Explaining South Africa’s unbalanced sex ratio, 1894-2011

At the beginning of the twentieth century the sex ratio for South A...

Working Paper

The effects of presentation formats in choice experiments

Although stated-preference surveys take various forms, the use of e...

Policy Brief

Adapting Herzberg: Predicting attendees' satisfaction and intention to re-visit a festi...

This study adapts Herzberg’s two-factor theory to investigate...

Working Paper

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...

Working Paper

The effect of price and non-price policies on cigarette consumption in South Africa

The health consequences of smoking are quite enormous and have been...

Policy Brief

Skills, employment, strong local institutions and good relationships between people and...

Subsistence poaching can severely threaten biodiversity and communi...

Policy Brief

Adapting Herzberg: Predicting attendees’ satisfaction and intention to re-visit a local...

Globally, the tourism sector has been identified as crucial to atta...

Policy Brief

Benefits of regulation vs. competition where inequality is high: The case of mobile tel...

South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, with a Gini ...

Policy Brief

Benefits of regulation vs competition where inequality is high: The case of mobile tele...

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in t...

Working Paper

Risk Preferences and the Impact of Credit and Insurance on Farm Technology Uptake

We use a series of credit and insurance simulation games to test th...

Working Paper

Motivating teachers in rural Zambia using a monetary incentive

Like many developing countries, the achievement gap between rural a...

Policy Brief

‘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...

Policy Brief

Regional disparities in income-independent quality of life in South African municipalit...

Background: Since 1994, the South African government has introduced...

Policy Brief

Factors influencing people’s perceptions towards conservation of transboundary wildlife...

Local people’s perceptions of protected areas greatly determine the...

Policy Brief

Teacher pay and educational outcomes: Evidence from the rural hardship allowance in Zambia

This paper studies the effect of unconditional teacher salary incre...

Working Paper

"The Power of Nudging: Using Feedback, Competition and Responsibility Assignment to Sav...

We use behavioural insights to design nudges leveraging social comp...

Working Paper

The Prince and the Pauper: The effect of inherited-wealth status on productivity in the...

There is limited theory and empirical evidence about the effects of...

Working Paper

The Demand for Cigarettes: New Evidence from South Africa

This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for cigaret...

Working Paper

Risk Preferences and the Poverty Trap: A Look at Technology Uptake amongst Smallholder ...

A number of studies suggest the risk preference of low income indiv...

Working Paper

Welfare and Environmental Impact of Incentive Based Conservation: Evidence from Kenyan ...

This paper focuses on whether the provision of landless forest-adja...

Working Paper