Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Issue Date

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  • The economic impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households in Limpopo Province 
    Oni, S.A.; Obi, Chikwelu Larry; Okone, A.; Thabede, D.; Jordaan, Andre Cillie (Blackwell, 2002-09)
    Although HIV/AIDS infection is a global problem, the epicentre of the disease lies in Africa. In fact, about 70 per cent of the global HIV/AIDS infected population can be found in sub-Saharan Africa (UNAIDS, 2000). ...
  • Tax revenue as an automatic fiscal stabiliser - a South African perspective 
    Swanepoel, A.S.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2002-09)
    The many practical economic and political difficulties encountered in discretionary fiscal stabilisation policy highlight the potential benefits of allowing automatic fiscal stabilisers to operate over the cycle. This ...
  • On the long-run interdependence of stock markets : a tale of correlations, auto- regressions and decompositions 
    Moolman, Elna; McCoskey, Suzanne K. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2002-09)
    It seems as if national stock markets within certain groups of countries, for example within Europe and Asia, are interdependent. But to what extent are stock markets between these groups interdependent? Is it still possible ...
  • The term structure as a predictor of recessions 
    Moolman, Elna (Bureau for Economic Research and the Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, 2002-11)
    Despite the existence of macroeconomic models and complex business cycle indicators, policymakers and market participants can benefit by looking at a few well-chosen indicators such as the term structure of interest rates ...
  • Economic growth and development constraints in Africa 
    Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2002-11)
    The slowing growth throughout the world over the past number of quarters has been uncomfortable for advanced countries, but a real source of hardship to many developing countries and a real setback to the fight against ...
  • Asymmetry in the cyclical behaviour of the South African labour market 
    Moolman, Elna (Graduate School of Business Leadership and the Department of Business Management, University of South Africa, 2003)
    Economists have long been hypothesising that business cycles are asymmetric. Keynes (1936) argued that recessions are usually short but severe, while expansions are usually longer but milder and characterised by more gradual ...
  • 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, ...
  • Estimating potential output and capacity utilisation for the South African economy 
    Du Toit, Charlotte Barbara; Moolman, Elna (Blackwell, 2003-03)
    Measuring productive potential and the deviation between potential and actual output (i.e. the output gap) provides a number of key insights into macroeconomic performance. Output in general is determined by the quantity ...
  • The impact of misdiagnosing a structural break on standard unit root tests : Monte Carlo results for small sample size and power 
    Moolman, Elna; McCoskey, Suzanne K. (Bureau for Economic Research and the Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, 2003-04)
    As discussed by Perron (1989), a common problem when testing for unit roots is the presence of a structural break that has not been accounted for in the testing procedure. In such cases, unit root tests are biased to ...
  • An inter-disciplinary perspective on the information privacy issue in a global environment 
    Jordaan, Andre Cillie; Jordaan, Yolanda (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-06)
    The world economic system's transformation from a dominantly massproduction model, to a mass-customisation model is seen as creating a demand for personal information on consumers. This has lead many consumers to feel the ...
  • Institutional quality, openness, and investment in Africa 
    Kandiero, Tonia; Wadhawan, Satish (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-06)
    This study supports the conventional wisdom that openness to trade is good for investment and economic growth. Whether this conclusion leaves space for institutional quality as a complimentary policy to determine the success ...
  • Predicting turning points in the South African economy 
    Moolman, Elna (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-06)
    Despite the existence of macroeconomic models and complex business cycle indicators, it would be beneficial to policymakers and market participants if they could look at one well-chosen indicator in predicting business ...
  • The dividends from a revenue neutral tax on coal in South Africa 
    De Wet, Theuns J.; Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957- (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-09)
    South Africa is endowed with a significant proportion of the world's coal reserves, which is used relatively cheaply to supply in more than 75 per cent of the country's energy needs. In terms of its per capita South Africa ...
  • A panel data analysis of crime in South Africa 
    Blackmore, F.L.E. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-09)
    This study analyses the determinants of crime in South Africa using economic, social and demographic variables. The model is estimated using an unbalanced panel of 1044 observations for 15 crimes across the 9 provinces of ...
  • Trade liberalisation, competitiveness and the real exchange rate (RER) : an analysis of developments in South Africa during the 1990s 
    Rangasamy, L.; Harmse, Chris (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-12)
    This paper tests whether tariff liberalisation has lead to increased competitiveness in the South African economy. The 46 sectors of the South African economy are classified as exportable, importable, importable and ...
  • Countercyclical fiscal policy in South Africa : role and impact of automatic fiscal stabilisers 
    Swanepoel, J.A.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-12)
    As actual budget balances reflect both cyclical developments and discretionary measures, they are not very useful when seeking to assess the orientation of underlying fiscal policy and possible structural imbalances in ...
  • The fiscal impact of unemployment insurance programmes as automatic stabilisers : the South African experience 
    Swanepoel, J.A.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2003-12)
    Theoretically, unemployment insurance (UI) contributions and benefits act in tandem to serve as counterbalances to the direction of the economy. Government transfers to households to cover costs related to unemployment are ...
  • Concentration in Botswana's banking sector 
    Kayawe, T.; Amusa, Adedeji (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-12)
    This study examines the degree of competition and efficiency within the commercial banking sector of Botswana. By applying the Herfindahl index, the paper provides an empirical methodology for assessing competition and ...
  • Are prices sticky downwards? The effect of trade liberalisation on South Africa’s wine industry 
    Ntege, S. Ssekabira; Harmse, Chris (Blackwell, 2003-12)
    One country's exports are another country's imports. However, an emphasis on the outward-oriented policy ignores its import aspect, and possibly exaggerates the benefits from free trade. This paper therefore investigates ...
  • Thinking like a governor : central banking under an inflation target 
    De Wet, W.A. (Walter Albert) (Blackwell, 2003-12)
    This paper sets out a framework in which a central bank under an inflation-targeting regime operates, and justifies why the interest rate hikes were necessary given the present framework of the South African Reserve ...