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Frey, Bruno S. - 2021

Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition is held to...

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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - CESifo - 2001

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …

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The Impact of Monetary and Commodity Fundamentals, Macro News and Central Bank Communication on the Exchange Rate: Evidence from South Africa

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2009

This paper studies drivers of high-frequency (daily) dynamics of the South African rand vis-à-vis the dollar from January 2001 to July 2007. We find strong nonlinear effects of commodity prices, perceived country and emerging market risk premium and changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate on...

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Is a 'Factory Southern Africa' Feasible? Harnessing Flying Geese to the South African Gateway

Draper, Peter - 2016

The countries comprising the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are currently not very integrated into global value chains (GVCs), potentially missing out on important development opportunities. Accordingly, we explore high level options for promoting their integration. Given East Asia's...

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Cross-Racial Envy and Underinvestment in South Africa

Haile, Daniel - 2006

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa. The amount of socio-economic information available to the subjects about their counterparts is varied. No significant behavioural differences are observed, when no such...

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Nominal and Real Exchange Rate Models in South Africa : How Robust are They?

Égert, Balázs - 2013

This paper addresses difficulties in modelling exchange rates in South Africa. Real exchange rate models of earlier research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation methods. Alternative exchange rate models proposed in...

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Remittances, Banking Status and the Usage of Insurance Schemes

Crayen, Dorothee - 2013

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a unique data set on the usage patterns of financial services...

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The Impact of Monetary and Commodity Fundamentals, Macro News and Central Bank Communication on the Exchange Rate : Evidence from South Africa

Égert, Balázs - 2013

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Gotcha! A Profile of Smuggling in International Trade

Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - CESifo - 2008

interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the …

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Testing

Bergbauer, Annika - 2018

School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...

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