South African Journal of Economics

1933 - 2025

Current editor(s): Philip A. Black

From Economic Society of South Africa
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Volume 79, issue 4, 2011

SOUTH–SOUTH AND NORTH–SOUTH TRADE AGREEMENTS: COMPATIBILITY ISSUES pp. 347-349

Alisa DiCaprio, Amelia Santos‐Paulino and Philippe De Lombaerde

CAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS REDUCE ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY? pp. 350-375

Alisa Dicaprio and Amelia U. Santos‐paulino

DESIGNING ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS TO PROMOTE INTRA‐REGIONAL TRADE IN ACP COUNTRIES pp. 376-391

Chris Milner, Oliver Morrissey and Evious Zgovu

SMALL TRADE FLOWS AND PREFERENCE UTILISATION: THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION pp. 392-410

Lars Nilsson

AN ASEAN–EU FTA, REGIONAL PRODUCTION SHARING, AND REGIONAL COHESION. FOCUS ON CAMBODIA, LAOS AND MYANMAR pp. 411-427

Lurong Chen, Ludo Cuyvers, Philippe de Lombaerde and Wahyu Mukti Kusumaningtias

THE EFFECTS OF BANKING RELATIONSHIP, LEGAL ORIGIN, PRIVATE EQUITY AND LEAD MANAGERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF WEST AFRICAN IPO FIRMS pp. 430-451

Bruce Hearn

REGIONAL BUSINESS CYCLE PHASES IN TAIWAN pp. 452-469

Liu de‐chih

ACCOUNTING FOR THE SIZE OF THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN NIGERIA pp. 470-489

Offiong Helen Solomon

Volume 79, issue 3, 2011

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN ZIMBABWE: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL AND MACROECONOMIC FACTORS pp. 211-223

Farayi Gwenhamo

DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS IN MALAWI pp. 224-250

Harold Ngalawa and Nicola Viegi

DETERMINANTS OF INFLATION IN GHANA: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION pp. 251-269

George Adu and George Marbuah

THE EFFECT OF STRESSED ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ON SYSTEMIC RISK WITHIN THE SOUTH AFRICAN BANKING SECTOR pp. 270-289

Ja'nel Esterhuysen, Gary van Vuuren and Paul Styger

LONG MEMORY IN THE VOLATILITY OF AN EMERGING FIXED‐INCOME MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA pp. 290-300

Pako Thupayagale

THE PREDICTABILITY OF STOCK MARKET RETURNS IN SOUTH AFRICA: PARAMETRIC VS. NON‐PARAMETRIC METHODS pp. 301-311

Lumengo Bonga‐bonga and John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba

LONG‐RUN DETERMINANTS OF SAVINGS RATES IN WAEMU COUNTRIES: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT FROM ARDL BOUNDS TESTING APPROACH pp. 312-329

Yaya Keho

WHEN DO VERTICAL RESTRAINTS HARM COMPETITION? THE ECONOMICS‐BASED APPROACH AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE BATSA CASE pp. 330-345

Nicola Theron and Willem Boshoff

Volume 79, issue 2, 2011

FINANCE AND GROWTH: NEW EVIDENCE ON THE ROLE OF INSURANCE pp. 111-127

W.N.w Azman‐saini and Peter Smith

YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT, FIRM SIZE AND RESERVATION WAGES IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 128-145

Neil Rankin and Gareth Roberts

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ON THE URBAN–RURAL DISPARITY IN HUMAN CAPITAL IN CHINA pp. 146-160

Xiaochun Li and Xiaoying Qian

AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON SOUTH AFRICA'S PUBLIC DEBT, 1962‐1994 pp. 161-172

Estian Calitz, Stan Du Plessis and Franz Siebrits

EXTREME VALUE AT RISK: A SCENARIO FOR RISK MANAGEMENT pp. 173-183

Alain Kabundi and John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba

FOOD INFLATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC POLICY pp. 184-201

Logan Rangasamy

FACTORS EXPLAINING THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF SECOND‐YEAR ECONOMICS STUDENTS: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS pp. 202-210

Petronella Horn, Ada Jansen and Derek Yu

Volume 79, issue 1, 2011

MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION – APPLICATION OF SYSTEM BCC MODEL pp. 1-16

Yu‐chuan Chen, Yung-Ho Chiu and Meng‐chen Li

PURCHASING POWER PARITY WITH RANK TESTS FOR NONLINEAR COINTEGRATION IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES pp. 17-26

Yu‐shao Liu and Chi‐wei Su

MACROECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY AND CONDITIONAL STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 27-49

Zivanemoyo Chinzara

FORECASTING PERFORMANCE OF AN ESTIMATED DSGE MODEL FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY pp. 50-67

Sami Alpanda, Kevin Kotze and Geoffrey Woglom

IS THERE AN ASYMMETRIC BEHAVIOUR IN AFRICAN INFLATION? A NON‐LINEAR APPROACH pp. 68-90

Estefanía Mourelle, Juan Cuestas and Luis Alberiko Gil‐alana

ASSESSING MONETARY POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA IN A DATA‐RICH ENVIRONMENT pp. 91-107

Alain Kabundi and Nonhlanhla Ngwenya

AUBREY DICKMAN (1930‐2010) pp. 108-110

Raymond Parsons

Volume 78, issue 4, 2010

INFLATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: A TIME‐SERIES VIEW ACROSS SECTORS USING LONG‐RANGE DEPENDENCE pp. 325-343

Luis A. Gil‐alana

TESTING FOR STATIONARITY OF INFLATION RATES WITH COVARIATES pp. 344-362

Ching‐chuan Tsong and Cheng‐feng Lee

TESTING FOR PURCHASING POWER PARITY AND UNCOVERED INTEREST PARITY IN THE PRESENCE OF MONETARY AND EXCHANGE RATE REGIME SHIFTS pp. 363-382

Miguel Lacerda, Johannes Fedderke and Linda M. Haines

PATTERNS OF CO‐MOVEMENT BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA AND GERMANY: EVIDENCE FROM THE PERIOD 1985 TO 2006 pp. 383-399

Alain Kabundi and Elsabe Loots

ZONE‐TARGETING MONETARY POLICY PREFERENCES AND FINANCIAL MARKET CONDITIONS: A FLEXIBLE NON‐LINEAR POLICY REACTION FUNCTION OF THE SARB MONETARY POLICY pp. 400-417

Ruthira Naraidoo and Leroi Raputsoane

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY PRICES IN A SUBMARKET OF SOUTH AFRICA: SEPARATING REAL RETURNS FROM ATTRIBUTE GROWTH pp. 418-436

Michael Els and Dieter von Fintel

FORMAL–INFORMAL ECONOMY LINKAGES AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 437-459

Rob Davies and James Thurlow

LOGISTICS COSTS IN SOUTH AFRICA – THE CASE FOR MACROECONOMIC MEASUREMENT pp. 460-476

Jan Havenga

Volume 78, issue 3, 2010

THE IMPACT OF THE EU BLUE CARD POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE AFRICAN SENDING COUNTRIES pp. 225-247

d'Artis Kancs and Pavel Ciaian

CAPE VERDE: THE CASE FOR EUROISATION pp. 248-268

Joao Loureiro, Manuel Martins and Ana Ribeiro

LOUD AND CLEAR? CAN WE HEAR WHEN THE SARB SPEAKS? pp. 269-286

Monique Reid and Stan Du Plessis

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOURISM AND TRADE IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 287-306

Denise Fry, Andrea Saayman and Melville Saayman

LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES AND PROGRESS WITH THE DELIVERY OF BASIC SERVICES IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 307-323

Waldo Krugell, Hannelie Otto and Jacky Van Der Merwe

Volume 78, issue 2, 2010

WOULD CHEAPER CAPITAL REPLACE LABOUR? pp. 131-151

Alberto Behar

EXPLAINING THE GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 152-169

James Alm and Abel Embaye

THE ROLE OF THE EXCHANGE RATE IN A NEW KEYNESIAN DSGE MODEL FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY pp. 170-191

Sami Alpanda, Kevin Kotze and Geoffrey Woglom

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SYNCHRONISATION OF BUSINESS CYCLES FOR DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING ECONOMIES WITH THE WORLD BUSINESS CYCLE pp. 192-207

Ilse Botha

DOES ATTENDANCE AT A HISTORICALLY WHITE UNIVERSITY BENEFIT NON‐WHITE STUDENTS OF INTRODUCTORY ECONOMICS IN SOUTH AFRICA? pp. 208-218

Kudayja M. Parker

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION – AN ALTERNATIVE TO CVDS: A COMMENT pp. 219-223

Witness Simbanegavi

Volume 78, issue 1, 2010

VICIOUS AND VIRTUOUS CIRCLES – THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNEMPLOYMENT pp. 1-22

A. Patrick Minford and Ruthira Naraidoo

THE EQUITY PREMIUM AND RISK‐FREE RATE PUZZLES IN A TURBULENT ECONOMY: EVIDENCE FROM 105 YEARS OF DATA FROM SOUTH AFRICA pp. 23-39

Shakill Hassan and Andrew Van Biljon

PURCHASING POWER PARITY IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES: EVIDENCE FROM PANEL SURADF TEST pp. 40-56

Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Evan Lau and Mudziviri T. Nziramasanga

A PANEL DATA APPROACH TO THE BEHAVIOURAL EQUILIBRIUM EXCHANGE RATE OF THE ZAR pp. 57-75

Andrea Saayman

DYNAMIC TIME INCONSISTENCY AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK pp. 76-88

Rangan Gupta and Josine Uwilingiye

HEALTH FACILITY CHOICE IN HIV‐ AND AIDS‐AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS IN TWO SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNITIES pp. 89-106

Frikkie Booysen and Martine Visser

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ETHNIC NICHES: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 107-130

Andre Hofmeyr