OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa at the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	48
A Tale of Three Countries: What is the Relationship Between COVID‐19, Lockdown and Happiness?	37
Social Assistance Amidst the COVID‐19 Epidemic in South Africa: A Policy Assessment	27
Economic and Distributional Impact of COVID‐19: Evidence from Macro‐Micro Modelling of the South African Economy	27
Covid‐19, Economic Growth and South African Fiscal Policy	20
The Possible Effects of the Extended Lockdown Period on the South African Economy: A CGE Analysis	10
Export margins and survival: A firm‐level analysis using Kenyan data	9
Exclusive Growth? Rapidly Increasing Top Incomes Amid Low National Growth in South Africa	8
Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008 and 2017	7
South African competition policy on excessive pricing and its relation to price gouging during the COVID‐19 disaster period	7
Potential Impact of Climate Change and Armed Conflict on Inequality in Sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Differentiation in Economic Costs and Returns from Living with Wildlife in Namibian Community Conservancies	6
An analysis of the impact of technological innovation on productivity in South African manufacturing firms using direct measures of innovation	6
Public Sector Growth in the British Cape Colony: Evidence From New Data on Expenditure and Foreign Debt, 1830‐1910	6
On the aggregate effects of global uncertainty: Evidence from an emerging economy	5
Effects of terrorism and economic policy uncertainty on economic complexity in Africa: A study of the moderating role of governance institutions	5
The Optimal Monetary and Macroprudential Policies for the South African Economy	5
Associations Between Logistics and Economic Growth in Africa	5
Ethnic Diversity and Local Economies	5
Electricity outages and residential fires: Evidence from Cape Town, South Africa	4
Evaluating the economic well‐being in the context of Africa	3
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model	3
A Spatial Analysis of Property Crime Rates in South Africa	3
Do tax administration reforms improve tax revenue performance in Togo? Empirical insights from experimental approaches	3
Economic Development and South Africa: 25 Years Analysis (1994 to 2019)	3

Do International Sanctions Reduce Household and Government Consumption in Developing Countries?	3
Foreign direct investment determinants in Mano River Union countries: Micro and macro evidence	3
The South African–United States sovereign bond spread and its association with macroeconomic fundamentals	3
South African student retention during 2020: Evidence from system‐wide higher education institutional data	2
Time, health service utilisation and health status in Africa: Evidence from six countries	2
Non‐linear Effects of Inflation on Economic Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	2
The Impacts of Economic Freedom and Institutional Quality on Migration from African Countries	2
Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: Representativeness, household counts, and small households	2
Identifying steady‐state growth and inflation in the South African economy, 1960–2020	2
Conflict heterogeneity in Africa	2
Equivalence scales in a developing country with extensive inequality	2
Willingness to pay for COVID‐19 test and vaccine in South Africa and Ghana: A contingent valuation study	2
Prospects for a Monetary Union in the East Africa Community: Some Empirical Evidence	2
Revisiting the accuracy of inflation forecasts in Nigeria: The oil price–exchange rate–asymmetry perspectives¹	2
Determinants of attrition between Waves 1 and 2 of South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS‐CRAM)	2
Convergence Triggers in Africa: Evidence from Convergence Clubs and Panel Models	1
Fiscal policy and dimensions of inequality in South Africa: A time‐varying coefficient approach	1
Macroeconomic Effects of an Ageing Population in Mauritius	1
Nowcasting South African gross domestic product using a suite of statistical models	1
A single currency for the Economic Community of West Africa? An economic assessment	1
Extending the determinants of currency substitution in Nigeria: Any role for financial innovation?	1
Leaders and Tenures in Sub‐Saharan Africa	1
Fixed costs, markups and concentration in Eswatini (Swaziland): A firm‐level analysis of panel data	1
The impact of foreign ownership on the performance of Johannesburg Stock Exchange‐listed firms: A blessing or a curse?	1
Media‐Based Sentiment Indices as an Alternative Measure of Consumer Confidence	1
Fiscal risks and their impact on banks' capital buffers in South Africa	1
	1
Resource mobilisation, institution and inclusive growth in Africa: Evidence from spatial analysis	1
Impact of capital regulation on interest rate pass‐through in Sub‐Saharan Africa	1
Do Foreign Firms Transfer Gender Norms in the Labour Market? Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa	1
Inflation‐Output Trade‐Off in South Africa: Is the Phillips Curve Symmetric?	1
Spillovers of the Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy from the US to South Africa	1
South Africa's titanium industrial policy: A product space perspective	1
Social institutions, gender attitudes and female labour force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa	1
Business Cycles Synchronisation and Symmetries in the Transition to East African Monetary Union	1
Correlates and Consequences of the 1918 Influenza in South Africa	1
A Description of Predatory Publishing in South African Economics Departments	1
Grit, motivation and university grades	1
The macroeconomics of establishing a basic income grant in South Africa	1
A computable general equilibrium model as a banking sector regulatory tool in South Africa	1
Beyond Borders: The Euro Crisis and Public Support for Monetary Integration in East Africa	0
The impact of agricultural minimum wages on worker flows in South Africa	0
Ruggedness and child health outcomes: Evidence from Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria	0
In memoriam Charles Edward Wickens Simkins: The renaissance economist	0
Market structure and bank conduct in Lesotho	0
BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE ECONOMIC SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA 14‐17 SEPTEMBER 2021	0
Inflationary effects of oil price and exchange rate shocks in South Africa: Evidence from time‐varying pass‐through coefficients	0
Moving from a bad to a good pricing regime: The South African private health care market	0
Cultural consumption and equality of access during economic downturns: The expenditure Gini coefficient for South Africa	0
	0

	0
	0
Does Teacher Subject Knowledge Contribute to Student Academic Performance in Developing and Least Developed Countries?	0
Foreign acquisition and firm performance in sub‐Saharan Africa: Empirical evidence from Ghana	0
	0
Sub‐Saharan Africa's rising public debt stock: Is there a cause for concern?	0
Tax revenue effort and aid in fragile states: The case of Comoros	0
Issue Information	0
Issue Information	0
	0
Issue Information	0
Issue Information	0
Measuring the gender wealth gap in South Africa using individual‐level data	0
JJI Middleton Award	0
Macroeconomic challenges of scaling up aid to West African Economic and Monetary Union	0
The effectiveness of macroprudential policies in managing extreme capital flow episodes	0
Interdependence between climate change and migration: Does agriculture, geography, and development level matter in sub‐Saharan Africa?	0
Issue Information	0
Productivity and reallocation under monopolistic competition: A Micro panel data analysis	0
Identifying supply and demand shocks in the South African Economy, 1960–2020	0
	0
Issue Information	0
Non‐income effect of land ownership and tenure on subjective wellbeing in South Africa	0
Can reconstruction programmes improve political perceptions in conflict contexts? Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo	0
Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effects	0
A supply‐side alternative for SRD grants in South Africa	0
Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho	0
Skill and Earnings Amongst Golfers on the Southern‐African Sunshine Tour	0
The impact of energy prices on inflation and economic growth in Mozambique: A wavelet approach and OLS estimator	0
DJJ Botha, Former ESSA President and SAJE Managing Editor	0
	0
Ocran, Matthew Kofi. Economic Development in the Twenty‐first Century. Lessons for Africa Throughout History; 2019; 412 pages. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.	0
Issue Information	0
Social capital and women's willingness to pay for safe water access: Evidence from African rural areas	0
Issue Information	0
	0
Monetary policy, inflation and distributional impact: South Africa's case	0
Is inflation uncertainty a self‐fulfilling prophecy in South Africa?	0
What goes up must come down? The effect of ‘2020’ on university students' academic performance trajectories	0
ESSA presidential address: The cost of going nowhere slowly*	0
	0
The impact of capital goods prices on Africa's economic performance	0
Climate change‐related shocks, assets and welfare outcomes in South Africa	0
How do firms in Sub‐Saharan Africa benefit from global value chains?	0
Issue Information	0
Issue Information	0
Investigating unemployment hysteresis in South Africa	0
Firing on all cylinders: Decomposing regional growth dynamics in South Africa	0
Issue Information	0
	0
Issue Information	0
Total factor productivity in Kenyan manufacturing firms: The role of ISO certification and direct vs indirect export intensity	0
Measuring the unit cost of financial intermediation in South Africa: A measure of bank productivity	0
	0
Issue Information	0
	0
Issue Information	0
Issue Information	0
	0
Dynamics of Money Market Interest Rates in Ghana: Time‐Frequency Analysis of Volatility Spillovers	0
Issue Information	0
	0
	0
Perspectives of a capitalist on targeting inflation at 3 per cent and on fiscal sustainability in South Africa	0
Public spending, credit market conditions and economic activity in South Africa	0
The labour market and poverty impacts of COVID‐19 in South Africa	0
Approximating Botswana's financial cycle: Expanding the macroprudential toolkit	0
Export capacity and capital stock augmentation through imports: Evidence from Sub‐Saharan African countries	0