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Effects of reducing tariffs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): A CGE analysis

In this paper, the effects of reducing tariffs are analysed through...

Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi, Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

Working Paper

Diagnosing Deep Roots of Development: Genetic, Disease and Environmental Factors

We examine the association between indicators of real GDP per capit...

Valerio Napolioni, Robert E. Klitgaard, Johannes W. Fedderke, James P. MacMurray

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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

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Dynamic Integration of Emerging Market Bond Yields into the Global Bond Market

This paper investigates empirically the integration of bond markets...

Anmar Pretorius, Alain Kabundi

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The Experience of Private Investment in the South African Water Sector: The Mbombela Co...

South Africa is a water-stressed country that over a protracted per...

Sugen Chetty, John M. Luiz

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The reliability of South African real-time output gap estimates

Estimates of the output gap are an important component of policy-ma...

Jessica Kramer, Greg Farrell

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Construction of a Social Accounting Matrix for Chad

The use of Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) models to contribute t...

David S. Garber

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Nonlinear Econometric Approaches in Testing PPP of SADC Economies towards Monetary Union

The theory of purchasing power parity implies that real exchange ra...

Francis M. Kemegue, Mulatu F. Zerihun, Marthinus C. Breitenbach

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Modelling Stock Return Volatility Dynamics in Selected African Markets

This paper examines whether accounting for structural changes in th...

Ferdi Botha, Daniel King

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Analyzing the Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Public Debt Dynamics in Zimbabwe

This paper provides an analysis of the theoretical and empirical fo...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

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Savings and economic growth: A historical analysis of the relationship between savings ...

The sub-optimal savings propensity in South Africa the past three d...

John W. M. Mwamba, Lorraine Greyling, Grietjie Verhoef

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Land use in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

This paper examines the effects of land use in the DRC through the ...

Bonga B. Lumengo, Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi

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Evolution of Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Malawi: A TVP-VAR with Stochasti...

This paper investigates the evolution of monetary transmission mech...

Manoel Bittencourt, Chance Mwabutwa, Nicola Viegi

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Does Education Promote Stable Property Rights?

This paper sets out to establish an empirical link between educatio...

Biniam E. Bedasso

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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

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The Export-Output Relationship in South Africa: An Empirical Investigation

This study re-investigates the empirical relationship between expor...

Paul Cipamba Wa Cipamba

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Determinants of Government and External Debt: Evidence from the Young Democracies of So...

We investigate in this paper what are the main determinants of gove...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Interaction of Formal and Informal Financial Markets in Quasi-Emerging Market Economies

The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the interacti...

Nicola Viegi, Harold P. E. Ngawala

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Macro Training Workshop on Now-casting Variables in South Africa

ERSA and the School of Economics at the University of Pretoria invi...

ERSA

Workshop

Official revisions to SA national accounts data: Magnitudes and implications

Policy Paper 10 This paper investigates the bias and dispersion in ...

Corné van Walbeek

Policy Paper

Fiscal incentives for research and development

Policy Paper 03 It is often argued that since the social return to ...

Bruce G. Teubes, Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

Economic Regulators Conference - Call for Submission of Abstracts

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) is proud to a...

NERSA

Workshop

Assessing the Economic Value of El Niñobased seasonal climate forecasts for smallholder...

Drought constitutes the most dominant source of food insecurity in ...

Ephias M. Makaudze

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The Objectivity of National Research Foundation Peer Review Based Ratings in South Africa

This paper examines the strength of association between the outcome...

Johannes W. Fedderke

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Evaluation of the Effects of Reduced Personal and Corporate Tax Rates on the Growth Rat...

Using several variants of a Marshallian Macroeconomic Model (MMM), ...

Jacques K. Ngoie, Arnold Zellner

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The High-Frequency Response of the Rand-Dollar rate to Inflation Surprises

We examine the high-frequency response of the rand-dollar nominal r...

Nicola Viegi, Greg Farrell, Shakill Hassan

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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 Dave Liu

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Terms of Trade Shocks and Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Economies

Emerging market economies (EMEs) have persistently experienced diff...

Albert Touna-Mama, Seedwell Hove, Fulbert Tchana Tchana

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An alternative business cycle dating procedure for South Africa

This paper applies a Markov switching model to the South African ec...

Franz Ruch, Adél Bosch

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South Africa’s Electricity Consumption: A Sectoral Decomposition Analysis

South Africa’s electricity consumption has increased sharply ...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, James N. Blignaut

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Analysing Alternative Policy Response to High Oil Prices, Using an Energy Integrated CG...

An energy-focused integrated CGE microsimulation approach is used t...

Ismail Fofana, Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu

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Macroeconomic uncertainty and emerging market stock market volatility: The case for Sou...

This paper analyses how systematic risk emanating from the macro-ec...

Zivanemoyo Chinzara

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A Comparison of Inflation Expectations and Inflation Credibility in South Africa: Resul...

This paper reports a comparison of South African household inflatio...

Vishnu Padayachee, Jannie Rossouw, Adél Bosch

Policy Brief

Border Tax Adjustments to Negate the Economic Impact of an Electricity Generation Tax

In the 2008 Budget Review, the South African government announced i...

Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Reyno Seymore, Jan H. van Heerden

Working Paper

Is Water Shedding Next?

South Africa is in the grip of an electricity crisis marked by a eu...

Jan H. van Heerden, James N. Blignaut

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Forward Exchange Rate Puzzle: Joining the Missing Pieces in the Rand-US Dollar Exchange...

The Unbiased Forward Rate Hypothesis (UFRH) stipulates that the for...

Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

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