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Delivering a difficult MTBPS

Running up to the elections next year, this was a difficult MTBPS t...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Characteristics of the South African retirement fund industry

Using administrative data, we examine three characteristics of the ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Structural Constraints on the Economcy, Growth and Political Economy Webinar

Monday 14 February 2022, Pascual Restrepo (Boston University), R...

Pascual Restrpo

Webinar

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

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

Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Taxpayer responsiveness to taxation: Evidence from bunching at kink points of the South...

I apply the bunching methodology to South African administrative ta...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

Phases of higher education, tuition grants, and equity-efficiency tradeoff

We study how taxes and alternative higher education subsidies affec...

Yoseph Y. Getachew

Working Paper

Part 4: Towards a fiscal policy that supports economic recovery while achieving sustain...

Drawing on the discussions in the previous 3 sessions, session 4 wi...

Matthew Simmonds, Ricardo Hausmann, Laurence Harris, Johannes W. Fedderke, Federico Sturzenegger, Abebe Selassie

Dialogue

Part 3: The role of fiscal policy in the post-Corona economic recovery

South Africa has a comparably large government sector, and the choi...

Christopher Loewald, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Mamokete Lijane, Gilad Isaacs, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrew Donaldson

Dialogue

Part 2: Financing the budget in the post-Corona world

Matthew delves into what financing the budget deficit in the post-C...

Brian Kantor, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Mamokete Lijane, Lucio Castro, Ian Stuart

Dialogue

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

Prof Johannes W. Fedderke on the South African – US sovereign bond spread: how is this ...

In this podcast, Prof. Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA s...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Podcast

Efficiency of provincial public healthcare in South Africa

Background Forty-nine million people or 83 per cent of the entire p...

Goodness C. Aye, Victor Ngobeni, Marthinus C. Breitenbach

Working Paper

CANCELLED: 'Structural Constraints on the Economy, Growth and Political Economy'

***Keynote Speaker*** Kenneth Scheve (Stanford) The second Economi...

Submit paper: 21 February 2020

Kenneth Scheve

Workshop

Annual Economic Research Southern Africa Workshop on ‘Structural Constraints on the Eco...

Keynote Speakers: Axel Dreher from Heidelberg University James Rob...

James Robinson, Axel Dreher

Workshop

Debt must be invested, not consumed

We look at recent trends in debt, government consumption and invest...

Michael E. Rose, Hylton Hollander, Co-Pierre Georg

Policy Brief

Does Massive Research Funding Work?: Lessons from South Africa

Does research output increase significantly when funding allocation...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Marcela Goldschmidt

Policy Brief

Optimal Public Investment, Growth, and Consumption: Fresh Evidence from African Countries

This paper develops a model positing a nonlinear relationship betwe...

Augustin K. Fosu, Yoseph Y. Getachew, Thomas H. W. Ziesemer

Working Paper

Transformation, Job Creation and Subsidies to Creative Industries: The Case of South Af...

Many governments have tried to stimulate economic growth via policy...

Jen D. Snowball, Alan Collins

Policy Brief

Analysing the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in the South African Economy

This paper is the first one to analyse the effect of aggregate gove...

Ruthira Naraidoo, Guangling Dave Liu, Charl Jooste

Working Paper

A reconsideration of what and who is middle class in South Africa

In this paper, we revisit ‘what and who’ is middle clas...

Justin Visagie, Dorrit Posel

Working Paper

The private sector has a role to play in cash transfers programmes in Africa

Arguments for greater participation by the private sector in growth...

Sheshangai Kaniki

Policy Brief