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Call for Application: The Second Economic Theory Workshop “Economies with Asymmetric In...

Keynote Speakers: Professor Wanda Mimra (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland) ...

Submit paper: 1 August 2014

Call for Application

Call for Papers: The Third Economic Theory Workshop

Keynote Speaker: Professor Felix Kübler (University of Zurich, Swit...

Call for Papers

Revisiting the accuracy of inflation forecasts in Nigeria: The oil price-exchange rate-...

Motivated by the distinctive paradoxical nature of the Nigerian eco...

Yusuf Yakubua, Ojo Adelakun, Kazeem Isah, Elias Udeaja, Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

The effect of colonial and pre-colonial institutions on contemporary education in Africa

This paper argues that contrary to previous findings, present-day e...

Matthew W. Clance, Leoné Walters, Carolyn Chisadza

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Estimating a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve

This paper estimates a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve for South ...

Nicola Viegi, Vincent Dadam

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The Disintegrating Force of Rationalism on Economics: What it means for Islamic Economics

In the last of this three-part study, the impact of the two dominan...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

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Pareto Optimality and Indeterminancy of General Equilibrium under Knightian Uncertainty

This paper studies general equilibrium theory, for both complete an...

Wei Ma

Working Paper

Lecture Series in Economic Theory: "Asymmetric Information in Markets and Organizations"

In part 1 of this lecture, we are going to introduce the basic set-...

University of Pretoria

Workshop

Expected Indirect Utility in an Ergodically Chaotic Overlapping Generations Model

The chaotic and ergodic equilibrium consumption profiles of a two p...

Richard Charlton

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Inflation, growth and employment in South Africa: Trends and trade-offs

It is often publicly contended that overly strict application of in...

Cobus Vermeulen

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Occidental Rationalism: Its Early Impact on the Foundations of Modern Science

Rationalist thought has had a deep and lasting impact on modern civ...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

The Third Economic Theory Workshop

Keynote Speaker: Professor Felix Kübler (University of Zurich, Swit...

Submit paper: 7 August 2015

Felix Kubler

Call for Papers

ERSA Lecture Series in Economic Theory: “Knightian Uncertainty in Economics and Finance”

Lecturer: Professor Frank Riedel (University of Bielefeld, Germany)...

Frank Riedel

Workshop

A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs

On average, young people underestimate whereas old people overestim...

Max Groneck, Alexander Zimper, Alexander Ludwig

Working Paper

The Second Economic Theory Workshop “Economies with Asymmetric Information”

Keynote Speakers: Professor Wanda Mimra (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland) ...

Submit paper: 1 August 2014

Wanda Mimra, Pierre Fleckinger

Workshop

Call for Papers: First Economic Theory Workshop

Keynote Speaker: Professor Frank Riedel (University of Bielefeld, G...

Submit paper: 14 February 2014

Call for Papers

First Economic Theory Workshop

Keynote Speaker: Professor Frank Riedel (University of Bielefeld, G...

Submit paper: 14 February 2014

Frank Riedel

Workshop

On the impossibility of insider trade in rational expectations equilibria

Existing no trade results are based on the common prior assumption ...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle

This paper experimentally tests whether violations of Savage’...

Aylit T. Romm, Nicky Nicholls, Alexander Zimper

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A Sticky Information Phillips Curve for South Africa

Mankiw and Reis (2002) propose the Sticky Information Phillips Curv...

Monique Reid, Gideon Du Rand

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The Equity Price Channel in a New-Keynesian DSGE Model with Financial Frictions and Ban...

This paper studies the role of the equity price channel in business...

Hylton Hollander, Guangling Liu

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Speculative Trade Equilibria with Incorrect Price Anticipations

This paper introduces an equilibrium concept for boundedly rational...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

A decision-theoretic model of asset-price underreaction and overreaction to dividend news

We combine new developments in decision theory with a standard cons...

Alexander Zimper, Alexander Ludwig

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Will the SARB always succeed in fighting inflation with contractionary policy?

The conventional view is that a monetary policy shock has both supp...

Guangling Liu

Working Paper

The Impact of Later Retirement Ages on Aggregate Household Savings and Saving Rates: An...

As a result of population aging, governments of many OECD countries...

Aylit T. Romm, Martha Wolny

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US Trade and Wages: The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory

Conventional trade theory, which combines the Heckscher-Ohlin theor...

Robert Lawrence, Lawrence Edwards

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A Large Factor Model for Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables in South Africa

This paper uses large Factor Models (FMs) which accommodates a larg...

Rangan Gupta, Alain Kabundi

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Asymmetry and discrimination in internet peering evidence from the LINX

Is the quality of interconnection between Internet operators affect...

Emanuele Giovannetti, Alessio D’Ignazio

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Asset pricing in a Lucas ‘fruit-tree’ economy with non-additive beliefs

We study a Lucas (1978) “fruit-tree” economy under the ...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

A Method for Theoretical Innovation in Economics

How can more theoretical innovation in economics be stimulated? Clu...

Arnold Wentzel

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The South African Phillips Curve: How Applicable is the Gordon Model?

Is there a Phillips curve relationship present in South Africa and ...

Philippe Burger, Marina Marinkov

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A fixed point characterization of the dominancesolvability of lattice games with strate...

This note demonstrates that a lattice game with strategic substitut...

Alexander Zimper

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