South Africa's grid remains unstable and characterized by frequent power cuts. Employing a generalized difference-in-difference approach, this paper examines the implications of South Africa's electricity crises on jobs, capital investment, and exporting across manufacturing firms in the...

Using the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel data for 2009-17, this paper investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In particular, the paper uses extant classifications of...

This paper evaluates the impact of effective IPRs protection on export quality using a factor-proportion model and a sample of 96 Developing countries and economies in transition between 1996-2011. I find that countries with more effective IPRs protection have comparative advantage in producing...