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Below is a list of working papers published by the Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA). Click on their titles to read the abstracts and download the full document free of charge.   For information on submitting a paper to ERSA please visit the Submission of Working Papers.   Layout and style guidelines Style file for LaTEX documents Guidelines for the Submission of Tables and Figures   Please Note:   The views expressed in the papers do not necessarily reflect the views of either the funding institutions, the hosting institutions or the authors' home institutions.   Downloadable Files: Files have been saved in pdf format and you need adobe reader to view it. All files have been zipped in order to ensure faster downloading. Acrobat reader is freely available on the web. Click on the icon to download the software.     Working papers 21 to 40 | Working papers 41 to 60 | Working papers 61 to 80 Working papers 81 to 100 | Working papers 101 to 120 | Working papers 121 to 140 | Working papers 141 to 160 | Working papers 161 to 180 | Working papers 181 to 200   Title and Author(s) Working papers 1 to 20 01 Mark-up Pricing in South African Industry By Johannes Fedderke, Chandana Kularatne & Martine Mariotti   02 Inflation Targets as Focal Points By Maria Demertzis and Nicola Viegi   03 Optimal timing of defections from price-setting cartels in volatile markets By Shakill Hassan   04 Has transition improved well-being? An analysis based on income, inequality-adjusted income, nonincome, and subjective well-being measures By Carola Gruen and Stephan Klasen   05 Using Fractionalization Indexes: deriving methodological principles for growth studies from time series evidence By J. W. Fedderke; J.M. Luiz and R.H. J. de Kadt   06 Trade liberalisation and labour demand within South African manufacturing firms By Lawrence Edwards and Alberto Behar   07 'Who replies in brackets and what are the implications for earnings estimates? An analysis of earnings data from South Africa' By Dorrit Posel and Daniela Casale   08 Demand for health care in HIV/AIDS - affected households in two communities in the Free State province of South Africa By Frikkie Booysens and M Visser   09 Entering and exiting collaborative purchasing relationships By Al Bhimani; Pascal Frantz & Mthuli Ncube   10 Reconsidering the business cycle and stabilization policies in South Africa By Stan du Plessis   11 Monetary Policy, Determinacy, and Learnability in the Open Economy By James Bullard & Eric Schaling   12 Growth Impact and Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment into South Africa, 1956-2003 By J. W. Fedderke and A.T. Romm   13 Challenging Cassandra: Household and Per Capita Household Income Distribution in the October Household Surveys 1995-1999, Income and Expenditure Surveys 1995 & 2000, and the Labour Force Survey 2000 By J. W. Fedderke, Jeenesh Manga and Farah Pirouz   14 Corporate Governance, Manager Behavior, and Analyst Behavior as Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions By Al Bhimani & Mthuli Ncube   15 The Political Economy of Institutions, Stability and Investment: a simultaneous equation approach in an emerging economy - the case of South Africa By Johannes Fedderke and John Luiz   16 What is the Structure of South African Happiness Equations? Evidence from Quality of Life Surveys By Timothy Hinks and Carola Gruen   17 The Impact of Performance Intensive Policy Intervention: Aid Policy that is Performance Intensive By Johannes Fedderke and Robert Klitgaard   18 Macroeconomic News 'Surprises' and the Rand/Dollar Exchange Rate By Johannes Fedderke and Philippe Flamand   19 Do Free Trade Agreements Create Trade for South Africa? By Merle Holden & Landon McMillan   20 Financial Systems and Monetary Policy in Africa By Mthuli Ncube     Workings papers 21 to 40 | Workings papers 41 to 60 | Workings papers 61 to 80