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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

Relationship between education and households’ electricity-saving behaviour in South Af...

This paper investigates the relationship between the education leve...

Kabeya C. Mulamba

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

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

The relationship between renewable energy and retail electricity prices: Panel evidence...

The centrality of electricity to everyday life is indisputable, and...

George A. Thopil, Anneri M. Oosthuizen, Roula Inglesi-Lotz

Policy Brief

Efficiency in South African water utilities: a comparison of estimates from DEA, SFA an...

Climate change has brought renewed and increasing attention to the ...

Jugal Mahabir, Richard Mulwa, Johane Dikgang, Genius Murwirapachena

Policy Brief

The household effects of very large electricity tariff hikes in Zambia

This paper simulates the real household expenditure effects of elec...

Akabondo Kabechani, Mashekwa Maboshe, Grieve Chelwa

Policy Brief

Random Expected Utility Theory with a Continuum of Prizes

This note generalizes Gul and Pesendorfer’s random expected utility...

Wei Ma

Working Paper

Exploring the nexus of electricity supply and economic growth in South Africa

This paper investigates the causal relationship between electricity...

Pierre Le Roux, Gift Mugano, Hlalefang Khobai

Working Paper

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

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

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

Policy Brief

An Economy-Wide Evaluation of New Power Generation in South Africa: The Case of Kusile ...

The South African economy has suffered over the past decade due to ...

Heinrich R. Bohlmann, Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Jessika A. Bohlmann

Working Paper

Meeting of the ERSA Public Economics Workgroup

Economic Research Southern Africa invites you to attend the meeting...

ERSA

Workshop

Public Economics Workshop

Economic Research Southern Africa invites you to attend the meeting...

ERSA

Workshop

Meeting of the ERSA Public Economics Workgroup

Workshop papers The impact of tax policy changes on the personal in...

ERSA

Workshop

ERSA Public Economics Workgroup

Economic Research Southern Africa invites you to attend the meeting...

ERSA

Workshop

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

Asset pricing in a Lucas ‘fruit-tree’ economy with non-additive beliefs

We study a Lucas (1978) “fruit-tree” economy under the ...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

Proposal to form a Public Economics Workgroup of Economic Research in Southern Africa

The National Treasury and Economic Research Southern Africa invite ...

National Treasury, ERSA

Workshop