South African Journal of Economics

1933 - 2025

Current editor(s): Philip A. Black

From Economic Society of South Africa
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Volume 85, issue 4, 2017

The Impact of Health on Labour Force Participation in South Africa pp. 481-490

Chijioke Nwosu and Ingrid Woolard

Income and Price Elasticities of Demand in South Africa: An Application of the Linear Expenditure System pp. 491-514

Rulof Burger, Lodewicus Charl Coetzee, Carl Kreuser and Neil Rankin

Estimating the Size and Impact of Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions at the University of Cape Town pp. 515-532

Andrew Kerr, Patrizio Piraino and Vimal Ranchhod

Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene)? pp. 533-552

Simplice Asongu and Oasis Kodila-Tedika

Remittance, Institutions and Investment Volatility Interactions: An Intercontinental Analysis pp. 553-569

Kazeem Ajide, Oluwatosin Adeniyi and Ibrahim Raheem

Financial Development, Growth Volatility and Information Asymmetry in Sub†Saharan Africa: Does Law Matter? pp. 570-588

Muazu Ibrahim and Imhotep Alagidede

Obituary: Prof Johannes Anthonie (Jan) Lombard: 1925–2017 pp. 589-591

Jannie Rossouw and Raymond Parsons

Volume 85, issue 3, 2017

Tax(i)ing the Poor? Commuting Costs in South African Cities pp. 321-340

Andrew Kerr

Peer Networks and Tobacco Consumption in South Africa pp. 341-367

Alfred Mukong

The Effectiveness of aid in Improving Regulations: An Empirical Assessment pp. 368-385

Matthias Busse, Ruth Hoekstra and Robert Osei

Enhancing Industrial Cluster Formation Through the Realistic Export Opportunities of the TRADE-DSM pp. 386-404

Noleen Pisa, Wilma Viviers and Riaan Rossouw

Impact of Macroeconomic Announcements on Foreign Exchange Volatility: Evidence from South Africa pp. 405-429

Tseke Maserumule and Imhotep Alagidede

Transmission of China's Shocks to the BRIS Countries pp. 430-454

Mustafa Çakır and Alain Kabundi

Monetary Policy Implementation and Volatility Transmission Along the Yield Curve: The Case of Kenya pp. 455-478

C. Emre Alper, R. Armando Morales and Fan Yang

Volume 85, issue 2, 2017

Estimating South Africa's Output Gap and Potential Growth Rate pp. 161-177

Johannes Fedderke and Daniel K. Mengisteab

Genuine Wealth Per Capita as a Measure of Sustainability and the Negative Impact of Corruption on Sustainable Growth in Sub-Sahara Africa pp. 178-195

Joseph Ato Forson, Ponlapat Buracom, Guojin Chen and Theresa Yaaba Baah-Ennumh

Evaluating South Africa's Open Economy pp. 196-221

Yashvir Algu and Kenneth Creamer

Concepts and Measures of Saving: Selected Issues for South Africa pp. 222-241

Anna Orthofer

User Fee Abolition and the Demand for Public Health Care pp. 242-258

Steven Koch

Hiring and Separation Rates Before and after the Arab Spring in the Tunisian Labour Market pp. 259-278

Almas Heshmati, Ilham Haouas, Kazi Sohag and Muhammad Shahbaz

Wages and Wage Inequality in South Africa 1994–2011: Part 1 – Wage Measurement and Trends pp. 279-297

Martin Wittenberg

Wages and Wage Inequality in South Africa 1994–2011: Part 2 – Inequality Measurement and Trends pp. 298-318

Martin Wittenberg

Volume 85, issue 1, 2017

Are Determinants of Portfolio Flows Always the Same? - South African Results from a Time Varying Parameter Var Model pp. 3-27

Haakon Kavli and Nicola Viegi

Assessing Nonlinear Dynamics of Central Bank Reaction Function: The Case of Mozambique pp. 28-51

Gerson Nhapulo and João Nicolau

Asset Price Bubbles: Existence, Persistence and Migration pp. 52-67

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Jair Ojeda-Joya, Juan P. Franco and Jhon Torres

The Macroeconomics Effects of Government Spending Under Fiscal Foresight pp. 68-85

Charl Jooste and Ruthira Naraidoo

Equity, Bonds, Institutional Debt and Economic Growth: Evidence from South Africa pp. 86-97

Ashenafi Beyene Fanta and Daniel Makina

The Invisible Hand of Rain in Spending: Effect of Rainfall-Driven Agricultural Income on Per Capita Expenditure in Ghana pp. 98-122

Eric Akobeng

Impact of Malaria Control on Late and Early Infant Mortality in Senegal pp. 123-137

Rayner Tabetando and Aloysius Mom Njong

Examining the Performance of the South African Economics Departments, 2005-2014 pp. 138-158

Derek Yu, Atoko Kasongo and Mariana Moses

Volume 84, issue 4, 2016

Fiscal Consolidation and the Public Sector Balance Sheet in South Africa pp. 501-519

Philippe Burger, Franz Siebrits and Estian Calitz

Public Revenue-Expenditure Nexus in South Africa: Are there Asymmetries? pp. 520-537

Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Aliyu Alhaji Jibrilla, Abdalla Sirag, Hamisu Ali and Ibrahim Muye Muhammad

Tax Revenue Effects of Sectoral Growth and Public Expenditure in Uganda pp. 538-554

Joseph Mawejje and Ezra Francis Munyambonera

How does a Change in the Excise Tax on Beer Impact Beer Retail Prices in South Africa? pp. 555-573

Caitlan Russell and Corne van Walbeek

The Short-Term Economic Impact of Levying E-Tolls on Industries pp. 574-593

Francois Jacobus Stofberg and Jan Van Heerden

Measuring Persistence in Inflation: Evidence For angola pp. 594-606

José Belbute, Leonardo Dia Massala and Júlio António Delgado

On Determinacy and Learnability in a New Keynesian Model with Unemployment pp. 607-623

Mewael F. Tesfaselassie and Eric Schaling

Revisiting Growth-Poverty Relationship: A Medium-Term Causality Approach pp. 624-635

Salvador Pérez-Moreno

Major International Information Flows Across the Safex Wheat Market pp. 636-653

Chris Motengwe and Angel Pardo

JJI Middleton Award pp. 655-655

Albert Touna-Mama

Volume 84, issue 3, 2016

Citizens' support for Economic Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 343-363

Heather Congdon Fors

Measuring the Real and Financial Connectedness of Selected African Economies with the Global Economy pp. 364-399

Jonathan E. Ogbuabor, Anthony Orji, Gladys C. Aneke and Oyun Erdene-Urnukh

The Effects of Remittances on Output per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach pp. 400-421

John Ssozi and Simplice Asongu

Trade Effects of the East African Community Customs Union: Hype Versus Reality pp. 422-439

Steven Buigut

Tax Evasion and the Business Environment in Uganda pp. 440-460

Joseph Mawejje and Ibrahim Okumu

Predicting Efficiency in Angolan Banks: A Two-Stage TOPSIS and Neural Networks Approach pp. 461-483

Peter Wanke, Carlos Barros and Nkanga Pedro João Macanda

A Bayesian Efficiency Analysis of Angolan Banks pp. 484-498

Carlos Barros, Emanuel Reis Leão, Nkanga Pedro João Macanda and Zorro Mendes

Volume 84, issue 2, 2016

South African Exporters and the Global Crisis: Intensive Margin Shock, Extensive Margin Hangover pp. 183-198

Marianne Matthee, Thomas Farole, Tasha Naughtin and Neil Rankin

Estimating the Short Run Effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive on Youth Employment Probabilities using A Difference-in-Differences Approach pp. 199-216

Vimal Ranchhod and Arden Finn

Undervaluation of Real Estate Properties in Disadvantaged Areas in the City of Johannesburg pp. 217-229

Mahlape Mohale, Hermanus Stephanus Geyer and Hermanus Stephanus Geyer

The Economic Value of Time: Evidence from Africa pp. 230-244

Kifle Wondemu

Private Sector Participation in the Provision of Quality Drinking Water in Urban Areas of Ghana: What Do Households Want and Can Afford? pp. 245-259

Godwin Kofi Vondolia and Francis Mensah Asenso-Boadi

Food Demand Characteristics in Uganda: Estimation and Policy Relevance pp. 260-293

Ole Boysen

Public Debt, Economic Growth and Inflation in African Economies pp. 294-322

José Augusto Lopes da Veiga, Alexandra Lopes and Tiago Sequeira

Institutional Quality and CO 2 Emission–Trade Relations: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 323-340

Mansor Ibrahim and Siong Hook Law

Volume 84, issue 1, 2016

The Political Economy of Middle-Income Traps: Is South Africa in a Long-Run Growth Trap? The Path to “Bounded Populism” pp. 3-19

John Luiz

The Political Economy of Public Expenditures in Agriculture: Applications of Concepts to Mozambique pp. 20-39

Tewodaj Mogues and Domingos Rosario

What Are the Drivers of Fiscal Performance Gaps between Anglophone and Francophone Africa? A Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition pp. 40-62

Babacar Sarr

The Effect of Land Restitution on Poverty Reduction among the Khomani San “Bushmen” in South Africa pp. 63-80

Johane Dikgang and Edwin Muchapondwa

Terms of Trade Shocks and Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Economies pp. 81-108

Seedwell Hove, Albert Touna Mama and Fulbert Tchana Tchana

Current Account Deficit in Mauritius: Risks and Prospects pp. 109-128

Ahmad Jameel Khadaroo

A Diagnostic on the West African Monetary Union pp. 129-148

Chee-Heong Quah

Stock Returns and Exchange Rate Nexus in Ghana: A Bayesian Quantile Regression Approach pp. 149-179

Gideon Boako, Maurice Omane-Adjepong and Joseph Magnus Frimpong