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Competition policy and regulation in digital markets

A 1-day ERSA workshop took place on 30th September 2022 in Stellen...

Zubair Patel, Yegnanew Shiferaw, Wihan Marais, Wawa Nkosi, Prince Changole, Petrus Potgieter, Paul Dunn, Megan Friday, Lukasz Grzybowski, Julius Nyamwena, Jan-Louis van Tonder, Grace Nsomba, Elvis K. Avenyo, Dumakude Nxumalo, Alexander Zimper

Workshop

The effects of technology intensity in manufacturing on CO2 emissions: Evidence from de...

Industrialisation is recognised as important for developing countri...

Fiona Tregenna, Elvis K. Avenyo

Working Paper

Dr Filippo Taddei on Structural Reforms in Italy: what can South Africa learn?

After its sovereign debt crisis in 2011, Italy experienced its wors...

Filippo Taddei

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

Part 1: Understanding the concept of "fiscal sustainability" in the post-Corona world

Debt sustainability is equivalent to government solvency and from a...

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

Dialogue

Nicola Viegi on the South African economic response to the Coronavirus: policies and pr...

Nicola Viegi, Deputy Director of ERSA, talks with Margaux G on the ...

Nicola Viegi

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

Competition and Gender in the Lab vs Field: Experiments from off-grid Renewable Energy ...

We fill the gap by examining how gender attitudes and performance u...

Rebecca A. Klege, Rowan P. Clarke, Martine Visser, Manuel F. Barron

Working Paper

Efficiency of South African water utilities: a double bootstrap DEA analysis

Although the efficiency of the water sector has been studied extens...

Jugal Mahabir, Johane Dikgang, Celiwe Samkange

Working Paper

Productivity estimates for South Africa from CES production functions

This paper provides estimates of the elasticity of substitution and...

Daan Steenkamp

Working Paper

Market Potential, Agglomeration Effects and the Location of French Firms in Africa

This paper informs the debate on the existence of agglomeration eff...

Alain P. Bala, Baraka Nafari, Michel Tenikue

Working Paper

Shaking out or shaking in: The impact of Zimbabwe’s economic crisis on the country’s ma...

Following Zimbabwe’s economic crisis between 1997 and 2009, a...

Nicholas Masiyandima, Lawrence Edwards

Policy Brief

Policy regime changes and central bank prefernces

This paper establishes whether central bank preferences are related...

Samuel Addo

Working Paper

Shaking out or shaking in: The impact of Zimbabwe's economic crisis on the country's ma...

Zimbabwe had one of the world’s worst economic crises from th...

Nicholas Masiyandima, Lawrence Edwards

Working Paper

Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth in South Africa: The Case of Manufa...

This paper investigates the effect of exchange rate volatility on e...

Trust R. Mpofu, Eftychia Nikolaidou

Working Paper

Institutions and Other Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

The primacy of factors of production, such as labour and capital, o...

Olusegun A. Akanbi, David Fadiran

Working Paper

Shaping macroeconomic outcomes

Policy Paper 23 By early 2016, financial market participants had be...

Christopher Loewald

Policy Paper

Decomposition of the Technical Efficiency: Pure Technical and Scale Efficiency of the F...

The study investigated the technical efficiency of the commercial b...

Sanderson Abel, Alex Bara

Policy Brief

South Africa's real business cycles: The cycle is the trend

It has been argued that business cycles in emerging economies are s...

Leroi Raputsoane, Hilary Patroba

Policy Brief

An evaluation of the cost and revenue efficiency of the banking sector in Zimbabwe

The study was meant to evaluate the cost and revenue efficiency of ...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

Construction, institutions and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

The construction sector in developing countries has propelled econo...

Jones O. Mensah, Paul Alagidede

Policy Brief

Output Decomposition in the Presence of Input Quality Effects: A Stochastic Frontier Ap...

How do physical capital accumulation and Total Factor Productivity ...

Yasmina R. Limam, Stephen M. Miller, Giampaolo Garzarelli

Policy Brief

Foreign Firm Ownership and Productivity Spillovers in the Southern African Development ...

The study uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surve...

John P. Dunne, Nicholas Masiyandima

Working Paper

Estimating South Africa’s Output Gap Potential Growth Rate

This paper estimates the potential output of the South African econ...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Daniel K. Mengisteab

Working Paper

Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanations

In this paper we analyze whether empirical evidence across a range ...

Yang Liu, Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Brief

Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanantions

This paper examines the nature and sources of productivity growth i...

Yang Liu, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Globalisation and Conflicts: A Theoretical Approach

This paper is aimed at providing insights into the interplay betwee...

Matthew W. Clance, André C. Jordaan, Bonginkosi Mamba

Working Paper

Does Massive Research Funding Work?: Lessons from South Africa

Does research output increase significantly when funding allocation...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Marcela Goldschmidt

Policy Brief

Technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian saving and credit cooperatives

In measuring technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian Saving and...

Nyankomo Marwa, Meshach J. Aziakpono

Working Paper

Mechanism between mining sector and economic growth in Zimbabwe, is it a resource curse?

The study investigates the role of mineral resources in economic de...

Nyasha Mahonye, Leonard Mandishara

Working Paper

Exploring Unbalanced Growth in South Africa: Understanding the Sectoral Structure of th...

This paper explores the reasons for the unbalanced growth structure...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

The spatial persistence of population and wealth during apartheid: comparing the 1911 a...

This article examines the spatial distribution of people and wealth...

Waldo F. Krugell

Working Paper

Slave Prices and Productivity in the 18th Century at the Cape of Good Hope: The Winners...

The question about the productivity of slavery is a strongly debate...

Ada Jansen, Sophia du Plessis, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Efficiency and Productivity of the Banking...

South Africa‘s financial sector is believed to have weathered the c...

Sylvanus Ikhide, Andrew Maredza

Working Paper