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The recreational value of beaches in the Nelson Mandela Bay area, South Africa

Mario Du Preez, Deborah Ellen Lee and Stephen Gerald Hosking

Using beach visitation data collected via the administration of a questionnaire to 226 respondents, this paper estimates a random utility model of beach recreation. The relative value of selected attributes of beaches is estimated, and the recreational values of lost access to four Blue Flag...

Sep 2011
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Do rent-seeking and interregional transfers contribute to urban primacy in sub-Saharan Africa?

Kristian Behrens and Alain Pholo Bala

We develop an economic geography model where mobile skilled workers choose to either work in a production sector or to become part of an unproductive elite. The elite sets income tax rates to maximize its own welfare by extracting rents, thereby influencing the spatial structure of the economy and...

Sep 2011
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Measuring the Impact of Trade Finance on South African Export Flows

Marcel Kohler and Adrian Saville

Trade finance (or short-term credit) plays a crucial role in facilitating international trade yet is particularly vulnerable to financial crises as banks increase the pricing on all trade finance transactions to cover increased funding costs and higher credit risks. Whereas South Africa’s financial...

Aug 2011
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Clean Fuel-Saving Technology Adoption in Urban Ethiopia

Abebe Damte and Steven F. Koch

The heavy dependence and inefficient utilization of biomass resources have contributed to the depletion of forest resources in Ethiopia, while the use of traditional cooking technology, one source of inefficient biomass resource use, has been linked to indoor air pollution and poor health. In...

Jul 2011
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Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence from South African Fishing Communities

Kerri Brick, Martine Visser and Justine Burns

We estimate the risk attitudes of a large sample of small-scale fishers from various fishing communities along the west coast of South Africa, using subjects’ choices over lotteries with real monetary prizes. We find that participants are moderately risk averse and that risk attitudes vary with...

Jul 2011
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Gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel demand in South Africa

Willem H. Boshoff

In recent years, the price and income elasticity of fuel demand in South Africa has featured prominently in energy and competition policy proceedings and in major corporate planning projects. The paper investigates the price and income elasticity of gasoline (petrol), diesel and jet fuel demand in...

Jun 2011
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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment of South African Telecommunications Firms into Sub-Saharan Africa

John M. Luiz and Henry Stephan

The study investigates the main factors considered by South African telecommunications firms when making a decision to undertake Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This encompasses the reasons for investing, the methods of entry into the identified market and the factors...

Jun 2011
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Business Cycle and Bank Capital Regulation: Basel II Procyclicality

Guangling (Dave) Liu and Nkhahle E. Seeiso

This paper studies the impacts of bank capital regulation on business cycle fluctuations. To do so, we adopt the Bernanke et al. (1999) "financial accelerator" model (BGG), to which we augment a banking sector to study the procyclical nature of Basel II claimed in the literature. We first study the...

Jun 2011
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Heterogeneity Happens: How Rights Matter in Economic Development

Johannes Fedderke, Robert Klitgaard and Kamil Akramov

The paper examines how much governance matters for long run economic development in poor countries.

May 2011
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Constructing Institutional Measures: Indicators of Political and Property Rights in Mozambique, 1900-2005

John Manuel Luiz, Luis Brites Pereira and Guilherme Oliveira

In this paper we focus on the role of political and economic institutions in Mozambique’s development. We produce a set of institutional indicators for Mozambique for the period 1900 through to 2005. The first index tracks political freedoms and is unique in its duration and complexity. The second...

May 2011
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