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Call for Application: Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic H...

South African economic history is undergoing a mini-revolution. Ass...

Call for Application

Sanctioned quotas vs information provisioning for community wildlife conservation in Zi...

We investigate the behavioural responses of resource users to polic...

Anne-Sophie Crépin, Herbert Ntuli, Edwin Muchapondwa, Caroline Schill

Journal Publication

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

Household debt and consumption dynamics: A non-developed world view following the ﬁnanc...

According to recent macroeconomic evidence (Bosch and Koch 2020b; F...

Matthew W. Clance, Steven F. Koch, Adél Bosch

Working Paper

Timothy Köhler on SA’s labour market: is a national lockdown as severe as we think?

It is just over a year since South Africa had to succumb to what wa...

Margaux Giannaros, Timothy Köhler

Podcast

‘Learning to export’ and ‘learning to innovate’: Revisiting the relationship between in...

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and export ...

Fiona Tregenna, Elvis K. Avenyo, Kwanele Ngwadleka

Working Paper

Bridging the Divide Online Course: Fundamentals of Effective Communication

This course will comprise four sessions as follows: Sessions 1 and ...

ERSA

BTD Online Course

The effect of cigarette price changes on smoking prevalence by gender: The case of Sout...

South Africa successfully reduced smoking prevalence by substantial...

Corné van Walbeek, Nicole Vellios, Zachary Gitonga

Working Paper

Prof. Nicola Viegi on SAMNet: a new economic modelling network is born

Adapting to the times, ERSA introduces its new initiative – the Sou...

Margaux Giannaros, Nicola Viegi

Podcast

The effects of presentation formats in choice experiments

Although stated-preference surveys take various forms, the use of e...

Johane Dikgang, Genius Murwirapachena

Policy Brief

POSTPONED: Economics of Digitization

**Keynote Speakers** Marc Bourreau (Telecom Paris) Frank Verboven (...

Marc Bourreau, Frank Verboven

Workshop

Adapting Herzberg: Predicting attendees' satisfaction and intention to re-visit a festi...

This study adapts Herzberg’s two-factor theory to investigate...

Tembi M. Tichaawa, Love O. Idahosa

Working Paper

Skills, employment, strong local institutions and good relationships between people and...

Subsistence poaching can severely threaten biodiversity and communi...

Herbert Ntuli, Edwin Muchapondwa, Amanda Linell, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt

Policy Brief

Adapting Herzberg: Predicting attendees’ satisfaction and intention to re-visit a local...

Globally, the tourism sector has been identified as crucial to atta...

Tembi M. Tichaawa, Love O. Idahosa

Policy Brief

‘The Prince and the Pauper’: The effect of inherited-wealth status on productivity in t...

This experiment contributes to the developing literature on the rel...

Dr Sofia Monteiro, Patrizio Piraino, Justine Burns

Policy Brief

Taxpayers’ behavioural responses to Voluntary Disclosure Programmes: evidence from Sout...

South Africa, like any other country, strives towards greater tax r...

Ada Jansen, Sophia du Plessis, Chengetai Dare

Working Paper

The Prince and the Pauper: The effect of inherited-wealth status on productivity in the...

There is limited theory and empirical evidence about the effects of...

Justine Burns, Dr Sofia Monteiro, Patrizio Piraino

Working Paper

Sources of Dualism in Modern Rationalist Thought: Implications for Islamic Economics

This paper follows on from the previous one in this series on the i...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

The Disintegrating Force of Rationalism on Economics: What it means for Islamic Economics

In the last of this three-part study, the impact of the two dominan...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

Comovement and the Financialization of Commodities

Commodity markets have experienced a surge in participation by fina...

Matteo Bonato, Luca Taschini

Policy Brief

Bayesian learning with multiple priors and non-vanishing ambiguity

The existing models of Bayesian learning with multiple priors by Ma...

Wei Ma, Alexander Zimper

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

The effects of social media on cognitive development in undergraduate economics students

The study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of social media on...

Naiefa Rashied, Ling Ting

Working Paper

Construction and analysis of a composite quality of life index for a region of South Af...

This study employs a novel approach to measure and analyse quality ...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Fiona Tregenna

Working Paper

Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic History

South African economic history is undergoing a mini-revolution. Ass...

Submit paper: 10 October 2014

ERSA

Workshop

Does Massive Funding Support of Researchers Work?: Evaluating the Impact of the South A...

Does knowledge and innovation need to come with a big price tag? Th...

Johannes W. Fedderke, M. Velez

Working Paper

Dynamic CGE Modelling Training Workshop

A five day intensive course in dynamic CGE modelling will be presen...

Peter Dixon, Maureen Rimmer

Workshop

Biased Bayesian Learning with an Application to the Risk-Free Rate Puzzle

Based on the axiomatic framework of Choquet decision theory, we dev...

Alexander Zimper, Alexander Ludwig

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

Economic Regulators Conference - Call for Submission of Abstracts

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

NERSA

Workshop

Advanced CGE Modelling Course

ERSA and the Department of Economics at The University of Pretoria ...

University of Pretoria, ERSA

Workshop

SASI-ERSA Savings Workshop

This workshop takes place from August 4 to August 5, 2009 at the So...

SASI, ERSA

Workshop

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

Working Paper

The emergence of "fifty-fifty" probability judgements in a conditional Savage world

This paper models the empirical phenomenon of persistent fifty-fift...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

Providing Economic Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation in an Emerging Bioregional ...

This paper starts from the now widely-held premise that biodiversit...

Kelly Scheepers, Eric Mungatana, Frank Matose, Harry Biggs, Kevin Moore, Edwin Muchapondwa, Amanda Driver

Working Paper

An epistemic model of an agent who does not reflect on reasoning processes

This paper introduces an epistemic model of a boundedly rational ag...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper