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3rd University of Pretoria-Stellenbosch PhD Workshop

Background and Objective: The Third University of Pretoria-Stellenb...

Submit paper: 1 June 2023

Mamello Nchake, Marisa von Vintel, Jesse Naidoo

Workshop

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...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

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

The political economy of palm oil expansion and deforestation in Indonesia

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic ...

Nunung Nuryartono, Krisztina Kis-Katosz, Elías Cisnerosy

Working Paper

Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

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

Martin Rode, Christian Bjørnskov

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

Unfulfilled expectations and the emergence of the EFF

Populism in politics is not a new phenomenon. It has been present f...

Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

Evolution and measurement of formal institutions in Cote D’Ivoire

This study analyzes the evolution of institutions in Côte d’Ivoire ...

Zie Ballo

Working Paper

The measurement of institutions and instability in Democratic Republic of Congo, 1880-2010

This paper introduces a new database for Property Rights, Political...

Alain P. Bala

Policy Brief

Unfulfilled Expectations and Populist Politics: Examining the Emergence of the EFF in S...

The last decade has seen the resurgence of populism with South Afri...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

Evolution of institutions in Ghana and implications for economic growth

This report discusses the evolution of institutions and compares th...

Emmanuel M. Letete, George Agbenyo, Wisdom Akpalu, Mare Sarr

Working Paper

The impact of multinational enterprises on public governance institutions in areas of l...

We explore the interaction between Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)...

Dirk Hanekom, John M. Luiz

Policy Brief

Measuring institutions during and after colonisation in Senegal (1819-2010)

Most of the widely used indicators of institutions have been critic...

Elise W. Sonne, Maty Konte

Working Paper

Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa

This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vert...

Nonso Obikili, Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

The Third ERSA Political Economy Workshop

Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) and the Institutions and P...

Giampaolo Garzarelli

Workshop

The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in...

This paper examines the impact of political competition on economic...

Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

Programmatic Procurement: A Political Economy Review of the Transnet Freight Rail Compe...

Public procurement policies in a nation such as South Africa do not...

Ayabonga Cawe

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

An economic model of the apartheid state

Rather than a rigid racial ideology, it is argued that South Africa...

Anton D. Lowenberg

Working Paper

Political Economy/Public Choice Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS The twentieth anniversary of the transition to demo...

ERSA

Call for Papers

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Local Political Fragmentation in Africa

I examine the possibility that the trans-Atlantic slave trades infl...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

Alternative indices of political freedoms, property rights, and political instability f...

This paper presents new institutional measures for Zambia. Coverage...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Farayi Gwenhamo, I. Lourenco

Working Paper

Democracy, Populism and Hyperinflation(s): Some Evidence from Latin America

We test for the populist view of inflation in Latin America between...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

The politics of state, society and economy

Policy Paper (Interest) 06 The article takes issue with the way in ...

Policy Paper