• The influence of financial literacy on retirement planning in South Africa 

  Mvita, Mpinda Freddy; Dhlembeu, Nyasha Tapiwa; Kekana, Mamekwa Katlego (10.25159/1998-8125/9490, 2022-07-01)

  BACKGROUND : A shift in the retirement planning and pensions landscape has created an enormous responsibility for individuals to plan for their retirement provision actively. Very few South Africans reach the average ...
• Cognition, optimism, and the formation of age‐dependent survival beliefs 

  Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; Zimper, Alexander (Wiley, 2021-05-02)

  This article investigates the roles of psychological biases for deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities. We model these deviations through age-dependent inverse ...
• Are boards' risk management committees associated with firms’ environmental performance? 

  De Villiers, Charl Johannes; Jia, Jing; Li, Zhongtian (Elsevier, 2022-01)

  We examine the relationship between board of director committees tasked with risk management and environmental performance, based on a sample of 1466 firm-year observations from 2007 to 2015. We find that the presence of ...
• Recovery from Covid-19 towards a low-carbon economy: a role for accounting technologies in designing, implementing and assessing stimulus packages 

  Bui, Binh; De Villiers, Charl Johannes (Wiley, 2021-09)

  Accounting technologies can be used to help stimulus packages achieve the twin goals of economic stimulus and climate mitigation. Utilising an institutional logic perspective, we show that despite the massive financial ...
• The relationship between economic policy uncertainty and corporate tax rates 

  Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gozgor, Giray; Gupta, Rangan; Lau, Chi Keung Marco (World Scientific Publishing, 2021-04)

  This paper investigates the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and corporate tax rates in a panel dataset of 126 countries throughout 2003–2018. We use the so-called “World Uncertainty Index” to measure the ...
• Investor sentiment connectedness : evidence from linear and nonlinear causality approaches  

  Tiwari, Aviral Kumar; Bathia, Deven; Bouri, Elie; Gupta, Rangan (World Scientific Publishing, 2021-12)

  This paper provides a novel perspective in determining the Granger causality of sentiment across the US, Latin America, Eurozone, Japan and Asia (excluding Japan), based on monthly data covering the period of January ...
• Hospitality as a pivotal value in leadership : a transdisciplinary engagement with the case of Chief Albert Luthuli 

  Steenkamp, Yolande; De Jongh, Derick (AOSIS, 2021-09-30)

  This article presents hospitality as a pivotal value in the context of increasing diversity that characterises the complex relations in which leadership emerges. After reviewing the concept of Otherness in philosophy, ...
• Uncertainty and daily predictability of housing returns and volatility of the United States : evidence from a higher-order nonparametric causality-in-quantiles test 

  Bouri, Elie; Gupta, Rangan; Kyei, Clement Kweku; Shivambu, Rinsuna (Elsevier, 2021-11)

  We analyse the ability of a newspaper-based metric of uncertainty of the United States in predicting housing market movements using daily data over the period 2nd August, 2007 to 24th June, 2020. For our purpose, we use a ...
• Dynamic impact of the U.S. monetary policy on oil market returns and volatility 

  Marfatia, Hardik A.; Gupta, Rangan; Cakan, Esin (Elsevier, 2021-05)

  In this paper, we assess the dynamic impact of the U.S. monetary policy announcements on oil market futures returns and volatility. We use intra-day data for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures together with a ...
• Credit ratings and predictability of stock return dynamics of the BRICS and the PIIGS : evidence from a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles approach 

  Balcilar, Mehmet; Bathia, Deven; Demirer, Riza; Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2021-02)

  This paper provides a novel perspective on the predictive ability of credit rating announcements over stock market returns and volatility using a novel methodology that formally distinguishes between different market states ...
• Does meaning matter? Nietzsche, Jung and implications for global leadership 

  Mabille, Martina L.; Steenkamp, Yolande (AOSIS, 2021-04-22)

  The Global Risks 2035 Update by the Atlantic Council, despite its clinical focus on economic, environmental and security challenges, nevertheless suggests that shared global meaning might have a role to play in enabling ...
• The impact of national health promotion policy on stillbirth and maternal mortality in South Africa 

  Mostert, Cyprian Mcwayizeni (Elsevier, 2021-09)

  OBJECTIVES : In 2015, the South African government implemented the national health promotion policy (NHPP), intending to reduce stillbirth and maternal mortality. This study was designed to quantify the impact of the NHPP ...
• Race and energy poverty : evidence from African-American households 

  Dogan, Eyup; Madaleno, Mara; Inglesi-Lotz, Roula; Taskin, Dilvin (Elsevier, 2022-04)

  Even though energy poverty has been widely discussed in many countries, only a few studies attempt to understand the nexus of race and energy poverty. To fill the gap in the literature, this study analyses the effect of ...
• The effect of mismatched supply and demand of electricity on economic growth in South Africa 

  Mabugu, Tichinashe; Inglesi-Lotz, Roula (Taylor and Francis, 2022)

  Since 2008, the South African economy has experienced several power cuts (unplanned or as part of a load-shedding schedule), presumably because of the inability of the electricity supply to cover the demand. This paper ...
• Investigating the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis amidst geopolitical risk : global evidence using bootstrap ARDL approach 

  Hashmi, Shabir Mohsin; Bhowmik, Roni; Inglesi-Lotz, Roula; Syed, Qasim Raza (Springer, 2022)

  Environmental concerns have become one of the top inevitable issues the world has been facing nowadays. Human-induced carbon emissions are the main reasons behind these environmental issues and to reduce them and mitigate ...
• Conflict heterogeneity in Africa 

  Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew) (Wiley, 2021-12)

  The economic development literature widely concurs that conflicts have adverse economic consequences that contribute to poverty, disinvestment and lower human capital leading to widespread inequality and lower economic ...
• Moving from a bad to a good pricing regime : the South African private health care market 

  Picard, Eric; Zimper, Alexander (Wiley, 2022-06)

  The South African private health care market combines a highly concentrated demand side with expensive medical services. This combination suggests that medical insurance schemes are not using their full market power. To ...
• Bitcoin mining activity and volatility dynamics in the power market 

  Karmakar, Sayar; Demirer, Riza; Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2021-12)

  Utilizing a measure of the Bitcoin network’s daily electricity load, we document a significant volatility effect of Bitcoin mining activity in three prominent electricity markets in the U.S. The volatility effect is found ...
• The impact of disaggregated oil shocks on state-level real housing returns of the United States : the role of oil dependence 

  Gupta, Rangan; Sheng, Xin; Van Eyden, Renee; Wohar, Mark E. (Elsevier, 2021-11)

  We analyse the impact of oil supply, global economic activity, oil-specific consumption demand and oil inventory demand shocks on state-level real housing returns of the United States (US) over the monthly period of 1975:02 ...
• Income inequality and oil resources : panel evidence from the United States 

  Berisha, Edmond; Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2021-12)

  The resource curse is sometimes associated with poor resource-rich countries. However, using panel evidence from the United States, we find that the resource curse is also prevalent in a wealthy resource-rich country. This ...

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