Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Title

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  • Omay, Tolga; Gupta, Rangan; Bonaccolto, Giovanni (Routledge, 2017)
    This article applies the Fractional Frequency Flexible Fourier Form (FFFFF) Dickey–Fuller (DF)-type unit root test on the natural logarithm of US real GNP over the quarterly period of 1875:1–2015:2, to determine whether ...
  • Demirer, Riza; Gupta, Rangan; Yuksel, Asli; Yuksel, Aydin (Asia University, Taiwan, 2020-09)
    This paper examines the information content of the U.S. term structure of interest rates on the market for real estate investment trusts (REITs) by decomposing the term structure of U.S. Treasury yields into two components ...
  • Ngoie, Jacques Kibambe; Zellner, Arnold (Cambridge University Press, 2012-03-23)
    Using a disaggregated Marshallian macroeconomic model, this paper investigates how the adoption of a set of “free market reforms” may affect the economic growth rate of South Africa. Our findings suggest that the institution ...
  • Koch, Steven F. (Wiley, 2017-06)
    This research examines the effect of the abolition of user fees in South Africa, a policy implemented in 1994 for uninsured children under the age of six and the elderly uninsured, as well as pregnant and nursing mothers. ...
  • Gupta, Rangan; Kabundi, Alain; Miller, Stephen M. (American Real Estate Society, 2011)
    Several Bayesian and classical models are used to forecast house prices in 20 states in the United States. There are two approaches: extracting common factors (principle components) in a factor-augmented vector autoregressive ...
  • Gupta, Rangan; Kabundi, Alain; Miller, Stephen M.; Uwilingiye, Josine (Springer, 2014-06)
    We use several models using classical and Bayesian methods to forecast employment for eight sectors of the US economy. In addition to using standard vectorautoregressive and Bayesian vector autoregressive models, we also ...
  • Chama-Chiliba, Chitalu Miriam; Koch, Steven F. (Oxford University Press, 2015-02)
    OBJECTIVES : We examine the individual- and community-level factors associated with the utilization of antenatal care, following the adoption of the focused antenatal care (FANC) approach in Zambia. METHODS : Using ...
  • Gupta, Rangan; Modise, Mampho P. (M.E. Sharpe, 2012-01)
    Using monthly South African data for 1990:01-2009:10, this paper, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to examine the predictability of real stock prices based on valuation ratios, namely, price-dividend and ...
  • Van Oordt, Marius Louis (University of New South Wales, 2018-10)
    The success of the value-added tax (VAT) towards revenue objectives is limited by the environment within which the VAT operates. Controlling for these environments allows for comparative estimates of countries’ VAT efforts. ...
  • Koekemoer, Reneé (Blackwell, 2001-03)
    Individuals frequently form expectation about the future level of prices e.g. when making consumption expenditure decisions and during wage bargaining. Expectations are formed conditional on economic agents' perceptions ...
  • Cnossen, Sijbren (Springer, 2018-04)
    Little has been written about the treatment of agriculture under the value added tax (VAT). This article attempts to fill the void by surveying and evaluating the situation in the Member States of the European Union (EU) ...
  • Padayachee, Vishnu; Rossouw, Jannie (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2010-06)
    This paper compares the movement in the nominal and real remuneration of two selected positions in the South African public sector over the period 1984 to 2008. Over this period a divergent trend is discernible in the ...
  • Minford, Patrick; Naraidoo, Ruthira (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-03)
    We develop an empirical non-linear model of equilibrium unemployment and test its policy implications for a number of OECD countries. The model here sees the natural rate and the associated equilibrium path of unemployment ...
  • Matthews, Kent; Minford, Patrick; Naraidoo, Ruthira (Elsevier, 2008-09)
    This paper develops a political economy model of multiple unemployment equilibria to provide a theory of an endogenous natural rate of unemployment for the UK and the US interwar period. The theory here sees the natural ...
  • Liu, Ruipeng; Demirer, Riza; Gupta, Rangan; Wohar, Mark E. (Wiley, 2020-03)
    This paper examines volatility linkages and forecasting for stock and foreign exchange markets from a novel perspective by utilizing a bivariate Markov‐switching multifractal model that accounts for possible interactions ...
  • Gkillas, Konstantinos; Gupta, Rangan; Wohar, Mark E. (Elsevier, 2018-12)
    In this paper we analyse the role of a news-based index of geopolitical risks (GPRs), in predicting volatility jumps in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) over the monthly period of 1899:01 to 2017:12, with the jumps ...
  • Donzwa, Wilson; Gupta, Rangan; Wohar, Mark E. (Sciendo, 2019-09)
    This study employs the recently developed Lagrange multiplier-based causality-in-variance test by Hafner and Herwartz (2006), to determine the volatility spillovers between interest rates and stock returns for the US, the ...
  • Nazlioglu, Saban; Hammoudeh, Shawkat; Gupta, Rangan (Routledge, 2015-04)
    This study examines whether a volatility/risk transmission exists between the Dow Jones Islamic stock and three conventional stock markets for the United States, Europe and Asia during the pre- and the in- and post-2008 crisis ...
  • Truu, M.L. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    At present, South Africa's economic system has no name and is under a cloud of confusion. This has been caused by the concurrence of two major political events: the collapse of the Soviet bloc and South Africa's changeover ...
  • Balcilar, Mehmet; Gupta, Rangan; Majumdar, Anandamayee; Miller, Stephen M. (Routledge, 2015-10)
    This article uses a small set of variables – real GDP, the inflation rate and the short-term interest rate – and a rich set of models – atheoretical (time series) and theoretical (structural), linear and nonlinear, as ...