South African Journal of Economics

1933 - 2025

Current editor(s): Philip A. Black

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Volume 77, issue 4, 2009

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN POPULATION GROUPS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TIMING AND NUMBER OF BIRTHS pp. 471-487

Siv Gustafsson, Adriaan Kalwij and Seble Worku

GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 488-504

Duncan Hodge

CAPITAL CONTROLS, TWO‐TIERED EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS AND EXCHANGE RATE POLICY: THE SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE pp. 505-530

Eric Schaling

TESTING FOR FRACTIONAL INTEGRATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY REAL EXCHANGE RATES pp. 531-537

Thabo M. Mokoena, Rangan Gupta and Renee van Eyden

A NOTE ON THE TRIMMED MEAN MEASURE OF CORE INFLATION IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 538-552

Zelda Blignaut, Greg Farrell, Victor Munyama and Logan Rangasamy

LIQUIDITY AND VALUATION IN EAST AFRICAN SECURITIES MARKETS pp. 553-576

Bruce Hearn

EQUIVALENCE OF COMPETITION MODE IN A VERTICALLY DIFFERENTIATED DUOPOLY WITH DELEGATION pp. 577-590

Ya‐chin Wang and Leonard Wang

EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS pp. 591-602

John Luiz

Volume 77, issue 3, 2009

TESTING FOR PPP USING SADC REAL EXCHANGE RATES pp. 351-362

Thabo M. Mokoena, Rangan Gupta and Renee van Eyden

MODELLING SOUTH AFRICAN CURRENCY CRISES AS STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE VOLATILITY OF THE RAND pp. 363-379

Andrew Duncan and Guangling Liu

EXCHANGE RATE PASS‐THROUGH TO IMPORT PRICES IN SOUTH AFRICA: IS THERE ASYMMETRY?1 pp. 380-398

Tapiwa D. Karoro, Meshach Aziakpono and Nicolette Cattaneo

ISOLATING A MEASURE OF INFLATION EXPECTATIONS FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN FINANCIAL MARKET USING FORWARD INTEREST RATES pp. 399-413

Monique Reid

THE SENSITIVITY OF SOUTH AFRICAN INFLATION EXPECTATIONS TO SURPRISES pp. 414-429

Monique Reid

INFLATION PERSISTENCE AND CORE INFLATION: THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA pp. 430-444

Logan Rangasamy

LIBERALISING TRADE IN SOUTH AFRICA: A SURVEY OF COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM STUDIES pp. 445-464

Ramos Mabugu and Margaret Chitiga

FURTHER DOWN MEMORY LANE: A NOTE REFLECTING ON THE MISSING FOUR pp. 465-470

Jannie Rossouw

Volume 77, issue 2, 2009

AN OPEN ECONOMY NEW KEYNESIAN DSGE MODEL OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY pp. 207-227

Max Steinbach, Patience Mathuloe and Ben Smit

NAMIBIA'S REAL EXCHANGE RATE PERFORMANCE1 pp. 228-244

Ken Miyajima

THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SUB‐SAHARAN AFRICA1 pp. 245-256

Enrico Lovász and Bernhard Schipp

HIGH AND VOLATILE TREASURY YIELDS IN TANZANIA: THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC BIDDING AND AUCTION MICROSTRUCTURE pp. 257-281

S. M. Abbas and Yuri V. Sobolev

A STOCHASTIC ESTIMATION FRAMEWORK FOR COMPONENTS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSUMER PRICE INDEX pp. 282-313

Janine Aron, John Muellbauer and Coen Pretorius

MEASURING INFLATION CREDIBILITY: RESULTS OF A FIRST REPRESENTATIVE SOUTH AFRICAN SAMPLE pp. 314-331

Jannie Rossouw and Vishnu Padayachee

THE SOUTH AFRICAN AGGREGATE PRODUCTION FUNCTION: ESTIMATION OF THE CONSTANT ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION FUNCTION pp. 332-349

Lumengo Bonga‐bonga

Volume 77, issue 1, 2009

SYNCHRONISATION BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE U.S.: A STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC FACTOR ANALYSIS pp. 1-27

Alain Kabundi

IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS ON GOVERNMENT POPULARITY: AN ECOWAS INVESTIGATION pp. 28-44

Chun-Ping Chang, Yung‐hsiang Ying and Meng‐chi Hsieh

THE DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT: INSTITUTIONS, OPENNESS AND FINANCIAL LIBERALISATION pp. 45-58

Siong Hook Law and Muzafar Shah Habibullah

CHANGE IN VOLATILITY REGIMES AND DIVERSIFICATION IN EMERGING STOCK MARKETS pp. 59-80

Leon Li

FURTHER EVIDENCE OF LONG MEMORY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN STOCK MARKET pp. 81-101

Quinton Morris, Gary Van Vuuren and Paul Styger

INTEGRATED PRODUCTION AND THE INVESTMENT–UNCERTAINTY RELATIONSHIP pp. 102-112

Yingyi Tsai and Ching‐tang Wu

BAYESIAN METHODS OF FORECASTING INVENTORY INVESTMENT pp. 113-126

Rangan Gupta

ELECTRICITY REFORMS IN MALI: A MACRO–MICRO ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS ON POVERTY AND DISTRIBUTION pp. 127-147

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Antonio Estache and Luc Savard

ON THE (MIS)MEASUREMENT OF INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT COSTS pp. 148-161

Mihalis Chasomeris

AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF PEDAGOGIC INTERVENTIONS IN FIRST‐YEAR ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT AND MAINSTREAM COURSES IN MICROECONOMICS pp. 162-178

Leonard C. Smith

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IMPACT OF TUTORIALS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ECONOMICS STUDENTS pp. 179-189

Pm Horn and Ai Jansen

A NOTE ON BANTU EDUCATION, 1953 TO 1970 pp. 190-198

Hermann Giliomee

Keynes and His Battles – By Gilles Dostaler pp. 199-202

Joubert Botha

ZANE SPINDLER (1941‐2008) pp. 203-204

Brian Dollery

Volume 76, issue s2, 2008

EDITORIAL pp. S87-S88

Miriam Altman

THE SPEED OF STRUCTURAL CONVERGENCE IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES OF NEWLY INDUSTRIALISING ECONOMIES pp. S89-S109

Berhanu Abegaz

SECTORAL ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION AND RETURNS TO SCALE IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. S110-S125

Tewodros G. Gebreselasie

REVISITING SOUTH AFRICAN EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN THE 1990S pp. S126-S147

Miriam Altman

GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT AND DISTRIBUTION IMPACTS OF MINERALS DEPENDENCY: FOUR CASE STUDIES pp. S148-S174

Albert Berry

THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MANUFACTURING AND SERVICES TO EMPLOYMENT CREATION AND GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. S175-S204

Fiona Tregenna

EXCHANGE RATES AND EMPLOYMENT pp. S205-S221

Stewart Ngandu

QUANTIFYING THE OUTSOURCING OF JOBS FROM MANUFACTURING TO SERVICES pp. S222-S238

Fiona Tregenna

Volume 76, issue 4, 2008

EXPLAINING THE MARKET POWER OF GHANAIAN BANKS1 pp. 569-585

Q.q. Anthony Aboagye, S.k. Akoena, T.o. Antwi‐asare and A.f. Gockel

MEASURING THE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN NAMIBIA pp. 586-595

Sylvanus Ikhide

WAGNER'S LAW: AN ECONOMETRIC TEST FOR SOUTH AFRICA, 1960‐2006 pp. 596-606

Emmanuel Ziramba

ALCOHOL TAXES VS. PREVENTATIVE MEASURES: A THEORETICAL NOTE pp. 607-611

Pa Black

DOES MOTHER'S EDUCATION MATTER IN CHILD'S HEALTH? EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA1 pp. 612-627

Patricia Medrano, Catherine Rodriguez and Edgar Villa

DETERMINANTS OF CHILD NUTRITION IN MALAWI pp. 628-640

Ephraim W Chirwa and Harold Ngalawa

RATES OF RETURN TO EDUCATION IN BOTSWANA: RESULTS FROM THE 2002/2003 HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND EXPENDITURE SURVEY DATA SET pp. 641-651

Hk Siphambe

AN ECONOMIC APPRAISAL OF THE IMPACT OF TRAFFIC DIVERSION – THE N1 TOLL ROAD AND ITS ALTERNATIVE pp. 652-666

N.g. Meyer, Marthinus Breitenbach and R.d. Kekana

ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF THE PROPOSED ROAD BETWEEN GOBABIS AND GROOTFONTEIN, NAMIBIA pp. 667-684

Wj Pienaar

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT IN ZIMBABWE: EVIDENCE FROM A CONTINGENT VALUATION STUDY pp. 685-704

Edwin Muchapondwa, Fredrik Carlsson and Gunnar Köhlin

WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR WATER SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS IN MIDDLE‐INCOME URBAN HOUSEHOLDS IN SOUTH AFRICA: A STATED CHOICE ANALYSIS pp. 705-720

J.d. Snowball, K.g. Willis and C. Jeurissen

VALUING BLUE FLAG STATUS AND ESTUARINE WATER QUALITY IN MARGATE, SOUTH AFRICA1 pp. 721-737

Anton Nahman and Dan Rigby

TOWARD BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND EMPIRICAL REALITY pp. 738-748

Stephen Graham Saunders

NEOCLASSICAL THEORY AND THE TEACHING OF UNDERGRADUATE MICROECONOMICS pp. 749-764

Mario Scerri

ETHNIC BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT: THE AFRIKANER CASE, 1915‐1970 pp. 765-788

Hermann Giliomee

Volume 76, issue 3, 2008

THE CHANGING VOLATILITY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY pp. 335-355

Philippe Burger

MONEY, OUTPUT AND INFLATION IN AFRICAN ECONOMIES1 pp. 356-366

John Thornton

FORECASTING CURRENCY CRISES: WHICH METHODS SIGNALED THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS OF JUNE 2006? pp. 367-383

Tobias Knedlik and Rolf Scheufele

LONG MEMORY IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN STOCK MARKETS pp. 384-398

Keith Jefferis and Pako Thupayagale

OPPORTUNITIES AND COSTS OF PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION IN SADC'S SMALLEST EQUITY MARKETS pp. 399-426

Bruce Hearn and Jenifer Piesse

COMPARATIVE FISCAL RESPONSE EFFECTS OF DEBT RELIEF: AN APPLICATION TO AFRICAN HIPCS pp. 427-442

Danny Cassimon and Bjorn Van Campenhout

FISCAL ILLUSION AT THE LOCAL SPHERE: AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF THE FLYPAPER EFFECT USING SOUTH AFRICAN MUNICIPAL DATA1 pp. 443-465

Hammed Amusa, Robert Mabunda and Ramos Mabugu

IS THERE EVIDENCE OF A WAGE PENALTY TO FEMALE PART‐TIME EMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA? pp. 466-479

Dorrit Posel and Colette Muller

THE RECENT DECLINE IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1998‐2006 pp. 480-492

Sophie Mitra

THE GENERATIVE POWER OF AIR FREIGHT IN THE TRADE OPENNESS – ECONOMIC GROWTH NEXUS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES pp. 493-512

Chun-Ping Chang and Yung‐hsiang Ying

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CVDS pp. 513-517

Yu‐ter Wang

DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS: DO THEY MATTER FOR INNOVATION OUTCOMES OF SOUTH AFRICAN FIRMS? pp. 518-536

René m. Bakker, Leon A.g. Oerlemans and Tinus Pretorius

MEASURING THE ALLOCATION OF ESKOM'S PRODUCTIVITY DIVIDEND1 pp. 537-547

Denis A. Lawrence and Gert Van Der Westhuizen

FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE LONG‐TERM SURVIVAL OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN ETHIOPIA pp. 548-568

Eshetu Bekele and Zeleke Worku

Volume 76, issue 2, 2008

LIQUIDITY AND THE INFORMATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF AFRICAN STOCK MARKETS pp. 161-175

Graham Smith

PRICE FLEXIBILITY IN THE COMMON MONETARY AREA pp. 176-188

Kopano Matšaseng

FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AUTONOMY AND INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE OTHER SACU COUNTRIES pp. 189-211

Meshach Aziakpono

REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY pp. 212-227

Gershon Sibinda

STRUCTURE, CONDUCT AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN AUTO INSURANCE MARKET: 1980‐2000 pp. 228-238

André p. Liebenberg and David R. Kamerschen

TO PREY OR NOT TO PREY? WELFARE AND INDIVIDUAL LOSSES IN A CONFLICT MODEL1 pp. 239-265

Martin Wittenberg

WHAT'S IN A NAME? RACIAL IDENTITY AND ALTRUISM IN POST‐APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA pp. 266-275

Wilhelm Gerhard Van Der Merwe and Justine Burns

ECONOMIC GROWTH, INCOME AND HAPPINESS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY pp. 276-290

D. Mahadea and T. Rawat

METROPOLITAN HOUSE PRICES IN SOUTH AFRICA: DO THEY CONVERGE? pp. 291-297

Philippe Burger and Lizelle Janse Van Rensburg

SPATIAL BAYESIAN METHODS OF FORECASTING HOUSE PRICES IN SIX METROPOLITAN AREAS OF SOUTH AFRICA pp. 298-313

Rangan Gupta and Sonali Das

IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH OF DIFFERENTIAL POPULATION GROWTH IN AN ECONOMY WITH HIGH INEQUALITY pp. 314-315

William Nordhaus

CORRUPTION AND THE COMPOSITION OF TAX REVENUE IN MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICAN ECONOMIES1 pp. 316-320

John Thornton

African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors – By Todd J. Moss pp. 321-324

D. Mahadea

Africa and Fortress Europe: Threats and Opportunities – Edited by Belachew Gebrewold pp. 324-326

Willie Breytenbach

Global Imbalances and the US Debt Problem. Should Developing Countries Support the Dollar – Edited by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman pp. 326-327

Nicolaas Schoeman

Morality, Political Economy and American Constitutionalism – By Timothy P. Roth pp. 328-330

Marthinus Breitenbach

DANIËL G. FRANZSEN (1918‐2008) pp. 331-334

D.C. Krogh

Volume 76, issue 1, 2008

ON INFLATION pp. 1-15

Philiph Mohr

MEASURING THE WELFARE COST OF INFLATION IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 16-25

Rangan Gupta and Josine Uwilingiye

REVISITING INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT AND SEGMENTATION IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR MARKET pp. 26-44

James Heintz and Dorrit Posel

GRADUATE UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE FACE OF SKILLS SHORTAGES: A LABOUR MARKET PARADOX1 pp. 45-57

Karl Pauw, Morne Oosthuizen and Carlene van der Westhuizen

POST‐TRANSITION POVERTY TRENDS BASED ON AN ALTERNATIVE DATA SOURCE1 pp. 58-76

Servaas van der Berg, Megan Louw and Derek Yu

INFRASTRUCTURE AND TIME POVERTY IN LESOTHO pp. 77-88

David Lawson

IS THERE POLICY SPACE TO PROTECT SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURE? pp. 89-103

Ron Sandrey, Mohammad Karaan and Nick Vink

THE DEMAND FOR FOOD IN SOUTH AFRICA1 pp. 104-117

John Dunne and Beverly Edkins

CIGARETTE DEMAND IN SOUTH AFRICA OVER 1996‐2006: THE ROLE OF PRICE, INCOME AND HEALTH AWARENESS pp. 118-131

Willem Boshoff

HURDLE MODELS OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO EXPENDITURE IN SOUTH AFRICAN HOUSEHOLDS1 pp. 132-143

Marc Ground and Steven Koch

PROFESSOR REEKIE AND MARKETS: HEALTH CARE AND HIGHER EDUCATION pp. 144-158

Joubert Botha

HJJ REYNDERS pp. 159-159

S Kleu