Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Title

Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Title

Sort by: Order: Results:

  • A labour model for South Africa 
    Du Toit, Charlotte Barbara; Koekemoer, Reneé (Blackwell, 2003-03)
    South Africa's performance has been dismal in dealing with the rising unemployment that the economy has been faced with since the 1970s. The purpose of this paper is to develop a labour model of the South African economy, ...
  • The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality 
    Percival, Valerie; Thoms, Oskar Timo; Oppenheim, Ben; Rowlands, Dane; Chisadza, Carolyn; Fewer, Sara; Yamey, Gavin; Alexander, Amy C.; Allaham, Chloe L.; Causevic, Sara; Daudelin, Francois; Gloppen, Siri; Guha-Sapir, Debarati; Hadaf, Maseh; Henderson, Samuel; Hoffman, Steven J.; Langer, Ana; Lebbos, Toni Joe; Leomil, Luiz; Lyytikainen, Minna; Malhotra, Anju; Mkandawire, Paul; Norris, Holly A.; Ottersen, Ole Petter; Phillips, Jason; Rawet, Sigrun; Salikova, Alexa; Mohamed, Idil Shekh; Zazai, Ghazal; Halanent, Tarja; Kyobutungi, Catherine; Bhutta, Zulfiqara; Friberg, Peter (Elsevier, 2023-11)
    The multiple and overlapping crises faced by countries, regions, and the world appear unprecedented in their magnitude and complexity. Protracted conflicts continue and new ones emerge, fuelled by geopolitics and social, ...
  • Land value as a function of distance from the CBD : the case of the eastern suburbs of Pretoria 
    Jordaan, Andre Cillie; Drost, B.E.; Makgata, M.A. (Juta, 2004-09)
    The greater the benefit derived from using a piece of land for any particular purpose the higher the price the prospective riser is willing to pay. The demand for land is thus a reflection of the utility derived from its ...
  • A large factor model for forecasting macroeconomic variables in South Africa 
    Gupta, Rangan; Kabundi, Alain (Elsevier, 2011-10)
    This paper uses large Factor Models (FMs), which accommodate a large cross-section of macroeconomic time series for forecasting the per capita growth rate, inflation, and the nominal short-term interest rate for the South ...
  • Leaders and tenures in sub-Saharan Africa 
    Chisadza, Carolyn (Wiley, 2020-09)
    While there has been extensive evidence provided on the varying effects of leaders’ extended tenures on economic growth, political institutions and conflict, little attention in the empirical literature has been given to ...
  • Leadership towards a just economic society 
    Lombard, J.A. (Johannes Anthonie); Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This actuality article on leadership argues for the need to move towards a just economic society. The implications of different terms are considered within a conceptual framework. This framework is essential for a better ...
  • A life-cycle model with ambiguous survival beliefs 
    Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; Zimper, Alexander (Elsevier, 2016-03)
    Based on a cognitive notion of neo-additive capacities re ecting likelihood in- sensitivity with respect to survival chances, we construct a Choquet Bayesian learning model over the life-cycle that generates a motivational ...
  • Linkages between financial sector CDS spreads and macroeconomic influence in a nonlinear setting 
    Lahiani, Amine; Hammoudeh, Shawkat; Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2016-05)
    This paper investigates the asymmetric and nonlinear transmission of financial and energy prices to US five-year financial CDS sector index spreads for the banking, financial services and insurance sectors in the short- ...
  • Linking global economic dynamics to a South African-specific credit risk correlation model 
    Van Eyden, Renee; Gupta, Rangan; De Wet, Albertus Hendrik (Elsevier, 2009)
    In order to address practical questions in credit portfolio management it is necessary to link the cyclical or systematic components of firm credit risk with the firm's own idiosyncratic credit risk as well as the systematic ...
  • The links between trade policy and total factor productivity in South Africa’s manufacturing sector 
    Harmse, Chris; Abuka, Charles Augustine (Blackwell, 2005-09)
    This paper reconfirms the important links that exist between manufacturing productivity, trade orientation, industry specific characteristics and some macroeconomic variables. The dynamic GMM estimator used in the analysis ...
  • Links or disconnect : a first consideration of inflation expectations and inflation credibility, with specific reference to South Africa 
    Rossouw, Jannie; Padayachee, Vishnu; Bosch, Adel (Juta, 2009-12)
    This paper compares international and domestic inflation expectations and inflation credibility, and hypothesises about a possible link or disconnect between inflation expectations and inflation credibility among South ...
  • Load shedding in South Africa : another nail in income inequality? 
    Inglesi-Lotz, Roula (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2023-09)
    SIGNIFICANCE : South African households have been affected by load shedding for over a decade. Low-income households are the most heavily impacted by unreliable electricity supply, rising electricity prices and lack of ...
  • Loan portfolio conditional loss estimation using an error-correcting macroeconometric model 
    De Wet, Albertus Hendrik; Van Eyden, Renee; Gupta, Rangan (Africagrowth Institute, 2010)
    Credit portfolio managers must be able to identify the interdependencies between exposures in a portfolio and be able to relate credit risk to tangible portfolio effects on which action could be taken. To these ends, ...
  • Local currency bond risk premia of emerging markets : the role of local and global factors 
    Cepni, Oguzhan; Gul, Selcuk; Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2020-03)
    This paper investigates the sources of variation in emerging market (EM) local currency bond risk premium. Empirical results suggest that both global and local factors contain valuable information in explaining the local ...
  • Local institutions, actors, and natural resource governance in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and surrounds, South Africa 
    Thondhlana, Gladman; Shackleton, Sheona; Blignaut, James Nelson (Elsevier, 2015-09)
    Crafting local institutions to allow more effective decision-making in the management of and access to natural resources in and beyond parks has long been considered key to collaborative governance. South Africa, in ...
  • Local municipality productive efficiency and its determinants in South Africa 
    Monkam, Nara F. (Routledge, 2014)
    This paper assesses the technical efficiency of 231 local municipalities in South Africa for 2007 and investigates the potential determinants of efficiency gaps using the non-parametric data envelopment analysis technique. ...
  • Logic of an Australia-South Africa FTA 
    Hodgkinson, Ann; Jordaan, Andre Cillie (Agenda Feminist Media, 2006)
    Australia, previously a strong supporter of multilateral trade liberalisation, recently began negotiating a series of free trade agreements with countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper explores, at a conceptual ...
  • Long memory, economic policy uncertainty and forecasting US inflation : a Bayesian VARFIMA approach 
    Balcilar, Mehmet; Gupta, Rangan; Jooste, Charl (Routledge, 2017)
    We compare inflation forecasts of a vector fractionally integrated autoregressive moving average (VARFIMA) model against standard forecasting models. U.S. inflation forecasts improve when controlling for persistence and ...
  • Long- and short-run relationships between house and stock prices in South Africa : a nonparametric approach 
    Aye, Goodness Chioma; Balcilar, Mehmet; Gupta, Rangan (American Real Estate Society, 2013)
    Tliis paper provides empirical evidence on the long- and short-run relationships between real house and stock prices of South Africa. Standard linear tests may not detect the existence of these relationships between time ...
  • The long-run impact of inflation in South Africa 
    Amusa, Kafayat; Gupta, Rangan; Karolia, Shaakira; Simo-Kengne, Beatrice Desiree (Elsevier, 2013-09)
    This paper evaluates the hypothesis of long-run super-neutrality of money (LRSN) within the context of the South African economy. The long-run impact of inflation on the interest rate and subsequently, output is estimated ...