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Dr Channing Arndt on Building back fairer from the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa

Post-pandemic, South Africa’s economy finds itself in a constrained...

Margaux Giannaros, Channing Arndt

Podcast

Part 4: Building back for a sustainable future

The discussion is based on two papers: , by Channing Arndt, Robert ...

Witness Simbanegavi, Matthew Simmonds, IFPRI, GIZ, ERSA, Channing Arndt

Dialogue

Dr Matthew Stern on understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance

An issue often overlooked in many discussions is that of exports an...

Matthew Stern

Podcast

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

Part 3: International perspectives and South Africa’s trade policy

The discussion is based on two papers: and Understanding South Afr...

Sherman Robinson, Montford Mlachila, Matthew Simmonds, Marianne Matthee, Matthew Stern

Dialogue

Prof Andreas Wörgötter on addressing current and persisting challenges in South Africa’...

At a time when tensions are rising due to growing inequality and un...

Andreas Wörgötter

Podcast

Part 2: Recovery policies and labour utilization

The discussion is based on two research papers: and Addressing low...

Matthew Simmonds, Witness Simbanegavi, Sherwin Gabriel, Romain A. Duval, Murray Leibbrandt, Andreas Wörgötter

Dialogue

Human capital and the timing of the first birth

This paper constructs and partially characterizes the solution of a...

Jesse Naidoo

Working Paper

Prof Nicola Viegi on evaluating the near future of monetary policy in SA: Sailing into ...

Only three times in the last century has monetary policy been re-ev...

Nicola Viegi

Podcast

Part 1: Monetary policy and Covid-19 in South Africa

The discussion is based on Sailing into the Wind: evaluating the (n...

Matthew Simmonds, Nicola Viegi, Mamokete Lijane, Konstantin Makrelov, Gina Schoeman

Dialogue

Building a competitive and dynamic green industrial sector in South Africa after COVID-19

Policy Paper 28 COVID-19 gave the world a glimpse of how devastatin...

Tendai Gwatidzo, Witness Simbanegavi

Policy Paper

Addressing low labour utilisation in South Africa

Policy Paper 27 South Africa’s stubbornly low labour utilisation ra...

Christopher Loewald, Konstantin Makrelov, Andreas Wörgötter

Policy Paper

Understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance

Policy Paper 26 South Africa’s exports have lagged behind the rest ...

Matthew Stern, Yash Ramkolowan

Policy Paper

Differential corporate taxation and inter-asset investment distortions in South Africa

South Africa has since the 1990’s actively reformed its corpo...

Mashekwa Maboshe, Matthew Stern, Yash Ramkolowan

Working Paper

Corporate taxation and firm-level investment in South Africa

This paper investigates the responsiveness of firm-level investment...

Mashekwa Maboshe

Working Paper

Fiscal risks and their impact on banks’ capital buffers in South Africa

South Africa’s fiscal balances have deteriorated significantly over...

Bojosi Morule, Neryvia Pillay Bell, Konstantin Makrelov

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...

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

Dr Rossouw van Jaarsveld on developing a forex network model: how to highlight risk tra...

Have you ever wondered how sensitive the South African Rand is to s...

Rossouw van Jaarsveld

Podcast

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

Sailing into the Wind: evaluating the (near) future of Monetary Policy in South Africa

Policy Paper 25 This paper evaluates the main challenges facing Sou...

Nicola Viegi, Tumisang Loate, Ekaterina Pirozhkova

Policy Paper

Dr Daan Steenkamp on forecasting GDP: why trucks matter in SA

In our second podcast with Dr Daan Steenkamp, a lead economist at t...

Daan Steenkamp

Podcast

Reigniting economic growth: Lessons from three centuries of data

We estimate that since 1701, South Africa has experienced 163 years...

Edward Kerby, Roy Havemann

Working Paper

Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa

The 1918 influenza – the Spanish ﬂu – killed an estimated 6% of Sou...

Jonathan Jayes, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

Taxpayer responsiveness to taxation: Evidence from bunching at kink points of the South...

I apply the bunching methodology to South African administrative ta...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

The transmission of monetary policy via the banks' balance sheet - does bank size matter?

We study the credit channel of monetary policy in South Africa betw...

Tumisang Loate, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

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

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

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

Dr Biniam Bedasso on managing Public Finances: where does a quarter of the IMF’s Capaci...

In this podcast, ERSA’s host speaks to Dr Biniam Bedasso about Publ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Podcast

Time consistency and economic growth: A case study of South African macroeconomic policy

The numerous diagnostic studies and policy recommendations that exi...

Konstantin Makrelov, David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald

Working Paper

‘Quantitative Easing' and central bank asset purchases in South Africa: A DSGE approach

This paper develops a small open-economy (SOE) dynamic stochastic g...

Cobus Vermeulen

Dr Biniam Bedasso on immigration and political preferences in South Africa: how has vot...

During the past week the buzz word has been ‘voting’, given the nai...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Podcast

Dr Daan Steenkamp on nowcasting: how economists benefit from machine learning and big data

With the unprecedented level of uncertainty in the economy, the abi...

Daan Steenkamp

Podcast

Impact of Social Transfers on Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from the South African Old ...

We study the effect of income receipt in form of Old age pension (...

Joseph Ajefu, Adeola Oyenubi

Working Paper

Dr Chris Loewald on Lockdown Learnings: monetary policy leeway during a pandemic

Shortly after the October MPR, ERSA’s host sat down with Dr Chris L...

Podcast