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The Fundamental Determinants of Competitiveness in African Countries

This study investigates the drivers of competitiveness in African e...

Olumide Taiwo, Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Political transition in a small open economy: Retracing the economic trail of South Afr...

This paper seeks to offer an economic explanation for the emergence...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

Workshop on International Trade

The Trade and Industrial Organisation Group of ERSA is pleased to a...

ERSA

Workshop

Anatomy of the Southern African Customs Union: Structure and Revenue Volatility

This paper studies the evolution of the Southern African Customs Un...

Harold P. E. Ngawala

Working Paper

Southern African Customs Union Revenue, Public Expenditures and HIV/AIDS in BLNS Countries

This study sets out to investigate how revenue from the Southern Af...

Harold P. E. Ngawala

Working Paper

Transmission of China's Shocks to the BRIS Countries

Working Paper 362 This study examines the impact of Chinas dominan...

Mustafa Y. Çakir, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

International Trade and Labour Demand Elasticities: Is there Any Empirical Evidence fro...

There are various pathways through which the impact of trade openne...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, Income and Foreign Trade: A South African Perspective

The effect of trade liberalisation on environmental conditions has ...

Marcel Kohler

Working Paper

Monetary Policy Response to Foreign Aid in an Estimated DSGE Model of Malawi

This paper estimates a Bayesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibr...

Manoel Bittencourt, Chance Mwabutwa, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

Can International Interventions Secure the Peace?

The international community uses a number of interventions to make ...

Anke Hoeffler

Working Paper

Technical barriers to trade faced by South African SMME’s

Policy Paper 02 South Africa is an open economy, and, therefore, it...

Michael A. Peet, Steven F. Koch

Policy Paper

Contemporary Analysis of International Trade

This workshop builds on a series of earlier workshops arranged by E...

ERSA

Workshop

Monetary policy and commodity terms of trade shocks in emerging market economies

Commodity terms of trade shocks have continued to drive macroeconom...

Albert Touna-Mama, Seedwell Hove, Fulbert Tchana Tchana

Working Paper

Is Africa Integrating? Evidence from Product Markets

Integration into the global trading environment is viewed as a key ...

Neil Rankin, Lawrence Edwards

Working Paper

The impact of social housing developments on nearby property prices: A Nelson Mandela B...

Social housing projects often face substantial “Not-in-my-backyard”...

Michael C. Sale, Mario du Preez

Working Paper

“Global since Gold” The Globalisation of Conglomerates: Explaining the Experience from ...

The internationalisation of enterprises is one of the essential way...

Grietjie Verhoef

Working Paper

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

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

Robert Lawrence, Lawrence Edwards

Working Paper

A regional perspective on Aid and FDI in Southern Africa

The global trend for official development assistance continues to d...

Henri Bezuidenhout

Policy Brief

Application of a multi-criteria integrated portfolio model for quantifying South Africa...

The availability of secure energy resources at sustainable quantiti...

Hammed Amusa, Krish Chetty, Njeri Wabiri

Working Paper

Empirical Evidence on Firms and International Trade

One of the most exciting developments in the field of international...

SARB, ERSA

Workshop

South Africa can reduce its crude oil import risk

Despite its small size and limited quantities of oil reserves, Sout...

Krish Chetty, Njeri Wabiri, Hammed Amusa

Policy Brief

Trade liberalisation and labour demand within South African manufacturing firms

Using new detailed tariff data, wages disaggregated by skill level ...

Lawrence Edwards, Alberto Behar

Working Paper

Trade liberalisation and labour demand within South African manufacturing firms

Using new detailed tariff data, wages disaggregated by skill level ...

Lawrence Edwards, Alberto Behar

Working Paper