South African Journal of Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of South African Journal of Economics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Is inflation uncertainty a self‐fulfilling prophecy in South Africa?11
ESSA presidential address: The cost of going nowhere slowly*10
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Measuring the gender wealth gap in South Africa using individual‐level data8
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Effects of terrorism and economic policy uncertainty on economic complexity in Africa: A study of the moderating role of governance institutions6
Public spending, credit market conditions and economic activity in South Africa6
Electricity outages and residential fires: Evidence from Cape Town, South Africa4
Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008 and 20174
Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: Representativeness, household counts, and small households4
The Impact of Bank Regulation on Commercial Bank Performance: Evidence From South Africa3
Approximating Botswana's financial cycle: Expanding the macroprudential toolkit3
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The Impact of Basel III Implementation on Bank Lending in South Africa3
The effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives: A microsimulation analysis on selected African countries3
Search, transport costs and labour markets in South Africa3
DJJ Botha, Former ESSA President and SAJE Managing Editor3
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Willingness to pay for COVID‐19 test and vaccine in South Africa and Ghana: A contingent valuation study3
Export margins and survival: A firm‐level analysis using Kenyan data3
Sub‐Saharan Africa's rising public debt stock: Is there a cause for concern?3
Ethnic Diversity and Local Economies3
Fixed costs, markups and concentration in Eswatini (Swaziland): A firm‐level analysis of panel data2
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The macroeconomics of establishing a basic income grant in South Africa2
Can reconstruction programmes improve political perceptions in conflict contexts? Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo2
Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho2
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Inflationary effects of oil price and exchange rate shocks in South Africa: Evidence from time‐varying pass‐through coefficients1
Productivity and reallocation under monopolistic competition: A Micro panel data analysis1
Has Macroprudential Regulation Affected Marginal Borrowers? Evidence From South Africa1
Market structure and bank conduct in Lesotho1
The impact of energy prices on inflation and economic growth in Mozambique: A wavelet approach and OLS estimator1
Firing on all cylinders: Decomposing regional growth dynamics in South Africa1
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Firm‐Level Expectations and Macroeconomic Conditions: Underpinnings and Disagreement1
Dynamics of Money Market Interest Rates in Ghana: Time‐Frequency Analysis of Volatility Spillovers1
An analysis of the impact of technological innovation on productivity in South African manufacturing firms using direct measures of innovation1
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The South African–United States sovereign bond spread and its association with macroeconomic fundamentals1
A computable general equilibrium model as a banking sector regulatory tool in South Africa1
Regulation and Bank Lending in South Africa: A Narrative Index Approach1
Ruggedness and child health outcomes: Evidence from Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria1
The efficiency of public expenditures on basic services: The case of South African municipalities1
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Bank Business Model Identification, Evolution and Outcomes: Evidence for South Africa0
The labour market and poverty impacts of COVID‐19 in South Africa0
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Investigating unemployment hysteresis in South Africa0
Macroeconomic challenges of scaling up aid to West African Economic and Monetary Union0
COVID‐19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Socioeconomic impacts and government recovery measures0
The Lobito Corridor as an Anchor of Economic and Value Chain Development in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia: Exploring the Issues0
Correlates and Consequences of the 1918 Influenza in South Africa0
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Professor Martin Wittenberg, 1962–20240
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Fiscal risks and their impact on banks' capital buffers in South Africa0
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In memoriam Charles Edward Wickens Simkins: The renaissance economist0
Determinants of fiscal rules policy credibility in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries0
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Evaluating the economic well‐being in the context of Africa0
Grit, motivation and university grades0
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Time, health service utilisation and health status in Africa: Evidence from six countries0
Nowcasting South African gross domestic product using a suite of statistical models0
A supply‐side alternative for SRD grants in South Africa0
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Equivalence scales in a developing country with extensive inequality0
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Foreign direct investment determinants in Mano River Union countries: Micro and macro evidence0
Tuberculosis and labour market participation: Evidence from South Africa0
Distributional Effect of Nonfarm Work on Household Welfare in Rural Cameroon: Evidence From Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects0
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Impact of capital regulation on interest rate pass‐through in Sub‐Saharan Africa0
Identifying supply and demand shocks in the South African Economy, 1960–20200
Export capacity and capital stock augmentation through imports: Evidence from Sub‐Saharan African countries0
Do tax administration reforms improve tax revenue performance in Togo? Empirical insights from experimental approaches0
Tax revenue effort and aid in fragile states: The case of Comoros0
The impact of capitation on health insurance membership and the provision of care in Ghana0
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Revisiting the accuracy of inflation forecasts in Nigeria: The oil price–exchange rate–asymmetry perspectives10
Interdependence between climate change and migration: Does agriculture, geography, and development level matter in sub‐Saharan Africa?0
A computable general equilibrium model of the monetary policy implications for financial stability in South Africa0
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Inclusive education and labour productivity: The case of Sub‐Saharan African countries0
Total factor productivity in Kenyan manufacturing firms: The role of ISO certification and direct vs indirect export intensity0
Extending the determinants of currency substitution in Nigeria: Any role for financial innovation?0
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Social institutions, gender attitudes and female labour force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa0
Cultural consumption and equality of access during economic downturns: The expenditure Gini coefficient for South Africa0
Identifying steady‐state growth and inflation in the South African economy, 1960–20200
How do firms in Sub‐Saharan Africa benefit from global value chains?0
Widowhood and multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Nigeria0
Determinants of digital technologies' adoption in South African manufacturing: Evidence from a firm‐level survey0
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Drivers of Inflation in South Africa Before and After the COVID‐19 Pandemic0
Basel III Regulations and Financing Decisions of Nonfinancial Firms: The South African Evidence0
Developmental Dictatorship in East Asia as Model for Africa? The Era Park Chung‐hee in South Korea (1963–1979) in Comparison to the Era Paul Kagame in Rwanda (2000–Today)0
Basel III and South African Banking: Assessing the Effects0
Perspectives of a capitalist on targeting inflation at 3 per cent and on fiscal sustainability in South Africa0
The impact of capital goods prices on Africa's economic performance0
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Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effects0
Conflict heterogeneity in Africa0
The impact of foreign ownership on the performance of Johannesburg Stock Exchange‐listed firms: A blessing or a curse?0
Fiscal policy and dimensions of inequality in South Africa: A time‐varying coefficient approach0
Resource mobilisation, institution and inclusive growth in Africa: Evidence from spatial analysis0
Social capital and women's willingness to pay for safe water access: Evidence from African rural areas0
A single currency for the Economic Community of West Africa? An economic assessment0
Foreign acquisition and firm performance in sub‐Saharan Africa: Empirical evidence from Ghana0
Moving from a bad to a good pricing regime: The South African private health care market0
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The Lending Implications of Banks Holding Excess Capital0
US suspension policy from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA): An estimation of the missing exports from sub‐Saharan Africa0
Determinants of attrition between Waves 1 and 2 of South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS‐CRAM)0
The impact of agricultural minimum wages on worker flows in South Africa0
Monetary policy, inflation and distributional impact: South Africa's case0
Measuring the unit cost of financial intermediation in South Africa: A measure of bank productivity0
South Africa's titanium industrial policy: A product space perspective0
Climate change‐related shocks, assets and welfare outcomes in South Africa0
South African student retention during 2020: Evidence from system‐wide higher education institutional data0
The effectiveness of macroprudential policies in managing extreme capital flow episodes0
What goes up must come down? The effect of ‘2020’ on university students' academic performance trajectories0
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On the aggregate effects of global uncertainty: Evidence from an emerging economy0
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