Forecasting Investment Needs in South Africa's Electricity and Telecom Sectors [PDF]
The paper uses a 52-country panel-data for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecom services and, based on these estimates, project investment needs in South Africa through 2010 for two growth scenarios.
Johannes Fedderke, Željko Bogetic
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Trade, Technology and Wage Inequality in the South African Manufacturing Sectors [PDF]
This paper advances on previous work on the effects of trade and technical change on labour markets within the framework of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory.
Johannes Fedderke, Yongcheol Shin
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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Direct and Indirect Productivity Impacts of 19 Infrastructure Measures [PDF]
Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous (countervailing signs) results with little robustness. A number of explanations of the contradictory findings have been proposed.
Johannes Fedderke, Željko Bogetic
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Heterogeneity Happens: How Rights Matter in Economic Development [PDF]
The paper examines how much governance matters for long run economic development in poor countries. Answering this question confronts four methodological challenges.
Johannes Fedderke +2 more
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Making Abundant Natural Resources Work for Developing Economies: The Role of Financial Institutions [PDF]
Can financial development play a role in abating the natural resource curse? What are the channels via which financial development may negate the potential detrimental effects of natural resources on economic growth? To attempt to answer these questions,
Malebogo Bakwena +2 more
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Impact of House Price on Economic Stability: Some Lessons from OECD Countries. [PDF]
J Real Estate Financ Econ (Dordr), 2023 Asadov AI, Ibrahim MH, Yildirim R.
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Effect of economic uncertainty on public health expenditure in Economic Community of West African States: Implications for sustainable healthcare financing. [PDF]
Health Sci Rep, 2022 Iheoma CG.
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Money demand in the euro area: do national differences matter? [PDF]
This paper assesses the relevance of national information in estimating the demand for euro-area M3 from three perspectives. First, we check whether aggregating national money demands is appropriate.
Eugenio Gaiotti +2 more
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Within and Between Panel Cointegration in the German Regional Output-Trade-FDI Nexus [PDF]
For spatial data with a sufficiently long time dimension, the concept of global cointegration has been recently included in the econometrics research agenda.
Timo Mitze
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Long-run relationship between crop-biodiversity and cereal production under the CAP reform: evidence from Italian regions [PDF]
Biodiversity has a prominent role in defining and preserving ecosystem well-being; the analysis of biodiversity effects on agricultural production is well documented.
Elisa Gatto, Guido Signorino
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