Since independence, South Africa has engaged in various bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs) in order to enhance exports diversification and stimulate aggregate growth of trade and productivity. This paper empirically investigates potential economic gains of South Africa (SA)-...

The HOGLEX demand system (Tran Van Hoa (1983, 1985)) is integrable and flexible in the sense that it is based on utility maximization and encompasses most other well-known demand systems (e.g., LINEX, AIDS) in the literature on consumer behaviour (Laitinen et al. (1983)). HOGLEX studies to date...