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Research Articles (Economics): Recent submissions
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(Elsevier, 2023-10)This paper studies the secular increase in US income inequality and its relation to growing house prices over the past three decades. We explore income inequality’s effect on house prices based on a high-frequency (quarterly) ...
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(Wiley, 2024-09)This paper investigates hysteresis in South Africa's unemployment. First, we test the presence of hysteresis in unemployment using traditional stationarity tests and non-linear transformation methods to identify two further ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-01)We investigate the role of geopolitical risks in forecasting stock market volatility at monthly horizons within a robust autoregressive Markov-switching GARCH mixed-data-sampling (AR-MSGARCH-MIDAS) framework. Our approach ...
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(Wiley, 2024-03)No abstract available.
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(Wiley, 2023-09)Inflation uncertainty causes macroeconomic ills and instability in the economy. This paper investigates if rising levels of inflation uncertainty serve as a source of higher inflation outcomes or vice versa, to determine ...
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Measuring the unit cost of financial intermediation in South Africa : a measure of bank productivity (Wiley, 2024-03)This paper presents evidence on productivity growth in the South African banking industry in the last 30 years. The productivity measures we construct shed light on whether the development, increased contribution and ...
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(Wiley, 2023-06)Using data from the Ethnographic Atlas and World Values Survey within a structural equation modelling (GSEM) framework, we analyse how historical social institutions and current gender attitudes influence female employment ...
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(Wiley, 2023-12)This paper examines the effect of terrain ruggedness on child stunting in Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria. Using a cross-section analysis with data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and a measure that ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)Motivated by the need for transition toward cleaner and sustainable energy sources, this study delves into the relationship between institutional quality and South Africa’s renewable energy adoption. The objective is to ...
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(De Gruyter, 2023-03)We study the importance of economic uncertainty so as to predict realized jumps (hereafter jumps) in the pound-dollar exchange rate. The empirical analysis covers the time period from February 1900 to May 2018 on amonthly ...
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(MDPI, 2023-10-06)Given the renewed interest in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), we are keenly focused on exploring the possible connection between climate change and return volatility of US equity REITs, as well as the role of ...
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(MDPI, 2023-03-17)This paper examines the effects of climate change on income inequality in the United States. Computing impulse response functions (IRFs) from the local projections’ method, we empirically show that there is an immediate ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-12)Although Mozambique has abundant energy resources and strives to increase access to electricity as a strategy to fight poverty and to pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, the country faces a double challenge, the lack ...
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(MDPI, 2023-07-11)The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have sparked global debate over how green economic recovery may and should be, and if the pandemic has accelerated the present energy transition while assuring a just transition for ...
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(Wiley, 2023-12)This paper provides novel insight into the growing literature on the policy uncertainty-stock market volatility nexus by examining the out-of-sample predictive ability of the quality of political signals over stock market ...
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(Wiley, 2024)We analyze the predictive value of (the surprise component of) state-level business applications, as a proxy of local investor sentiment, for the state-level realized US stock-market volatility. We use high-frequency data ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-02)The standard procedure for quantifying spillover effects of changes in economic fundamentals among separate regions (or countries) is to link the regions through predetermined weights – for example through fixed weighted ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-01)This paper investigates the dynamic connectedness of random shocks to housing prices between the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The paper implements a standard vector autoregressive (VAR) model as well as ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-01)This paper investigates whether investors in international Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) markets engage in herding behaviour due to the economic uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Using a ...
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(Sage, 2023-09)This study examines whether climate policy uncertainty affects the propensity of people to travel. To do so, we employ the Climate Policy Uncertainty (CPU) index and US air-travel data to eight regional overseas destinations ...
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