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The Effect of Tobacco and Alcohol Control Policies on Household Spending Patterns in Ke...

This paper examines the effect of tobacco and alcohol control polic...

Abel O. Nyagwachi, Grieve Chelwa, Corné van Walbeek

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Does the choice of balance-measure matter under Genetic Matching?

In applied studies, the influence of balance measures on the perfor...

Martin Wittenberg, Adeola Oyenubi

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Spillovers of the Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy from the US to South ...

This paper assesses the effect of US monetary policy on South Afric...

Alain Kabundi, Tumisang Loate, Nicola Viegi

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Redistribution, Inequality, and Efficiency with Credit Constraints

We develop a model that characterizes the joint determination of in...

Yoseph Y. Getachew, Stephen J. Turnovsky

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The persistence of apartheid regional wage disparities in South Africa

Despite the ending of apartheid, regional wage disparities remain p...

Lawrence Edwards, Gibson Mudiriza

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Fiscal Rules and the Compliance debate: Why do Countries adopt Rules and fail to comply?

We study the compliance with fiscal rules via various national nume...

Martin W. Nandelenga, Mark J. Ellyne

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The Global Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy

This paper studies the transmission of US monetary shocks across th...

Seokki S. Hong, Riccardo Degasperi, Giovanni Ricco

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Does the Pursuit of Outreach Consistently Stifle the Financial Performance of Microfina...

We study the relationship between outreach and the financial perfor...

Sydney Chikalipah

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Emergent large traders in smallholder grain markets and their role in enhancing adoptio...

Pervasive threats of climate change and land degradation have compo...

Thomas S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Martine Visser, Chalmers Mulwa

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The optimal monetary and macroprudential policies for the South African economy

We investigate the optimal design and effectiveness of monetary and...

Thabang Molisey, Guangling Dave Liu

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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

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Exploring evidence of spatial economic agglomeration in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municip...

Since Marshall’s (1890) work on industrial districts in 19^{t...

Koech Cheruiyot

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Trade Openness and Fertility Rates in Africa: Panel Data Evidence

We study the effect of trade openness on fertility rates in fifty A...

Matthew W. Clance, Yoseph Y. Getachew, Manoel Bittencourt

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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

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A financial stress index for South Africa: A time-varying correlation approach

This paper develops a new index of financial market stress for Sout...

Theshne Kisten

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Missing boys: Explaining South Africa’s unbalanced sex ratio, 1894-2011

At the beginning of the twentieth century the sex ratio for South A...

Johan Fourie, Francisco J. Marco-Gracia

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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

Capital Account Liberalization and Capital Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Thresho...

Capital inflows to Sub-Saharan Africa have been increasing over the...

Tamara E. Mughogho, Imhotep P. Alagidede

Policy Brief

Spatial dependence of per capita property tax income in South Africa

We investigate spatial dependence of per capita property tax income...

Kabeya C. Mulamba, Fiona Tregenna

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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

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The effects of price and non-price policies on cigarette consumption in South Africa

The health consequences of smoking are serious and have been freque...

Ernest N. Tingum, Noreen Mdege, Alfred K. Mukong

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Farm diversification and climate change: implications for food security in Northern Nam...

Limited non-farm opportunities in the rural areas of the developing...

Martine Visser, Chalmers Mulwa

Policy Brief

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

Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Co...

While subsistence poaching is a large threat to wildlife conservati...

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

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A New Keynesian DSGE model for low income economies with foreign exchange constraints

The existing literature is clear that low income economies tend to ...

Bertha C. Bangara

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Inequality in South Africa: what does a composite index of wellbeing reveal?

Policymakers need better information regarding wellbeing inequality...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

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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

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Narrowing the ‘digital divide’: the role of complementarities between fixed and mobile ...

We study substitution between fixed and mobile broadband services i...

Ryan Hawthrone, Lukasz Grzybowski

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The effectiveness of counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulations: generic versus sector-...

This paper considers the implications of the counter-cyclical loan-...

Thabang Molisey, Guangling Dave Liu

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Benefits of regulation vs competition where inequality is high: The case of mobile tele...

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in t...

Ryan Hawthrone, Lukasz Grzybowski

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The role of the rand as a shock absorber

This paper investigates the impact of rand shocks on industry outpu...

Luchelle Soobyah, Daan Steenkamp

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Productivity estimates for South Africa from CES production functions

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

Daan Steenkamp

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The monetary policy of the South African Reserve Bank: stance, communication and credib...

This paper analyses the evolution of the monetary policy stance, co...

Alberto Coco, Nicola Viegi

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Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa

Does ethnic favouritism in administrative governments affect public...

Leoné Walters, Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

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Aggregate and sectoral public-private remuneration patterns in South Africa

This paper investigates the aggregate and sectoral public-private r...

Sihle Nomdebevana, Andreas Wörgötter

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Aggregate and sectoral public-private remuneration patterns in South Africa Research Brief

This paper investigates the aggregate and sectoral public-private r...

Andreas Wörgötter, Sihle Nomdebevana

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