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2003: Beyond the chains: Slavery and Africa’s wealth gap with the world

Andrew Phiri

2001: A partial general equilibrium analysis of fiscal policy injection on inequality in South Africa

Kambale Kavese and Andrew Phiri

1911: Is Neo-Fisherian ‘alive’ in South Africa? A frequency domain causality approach

Andrew Phiri

1910: Microsimulations of a dynamic SUT economy-wide Leontief-based model for the South African economy

Kambale Kavese and Andrew Phiri

1909: Fiscal cyclicality in South African public expenditures: Do asymmetries explain inconsistencies?

Kambale Kavese and Andrew Phiri

1908: Towards resolving the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) ‘puzzle’ in Newly Industrialized Countries (NIC’s)

David de Villiers and Andrew Phiri

1907: Is export diversification or export specialization responsible for economic growth in BRICS countries?

Sinesipho Siswana and Andrew Phiri

1906: Can the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) protect the purchasing power of citizens? A new look at Fisher’s hypothesis

Lutho Mbekeni and Andrew Phiri

1905: The human capital-economic growth nexus in SSA countries: What can strengthen the relationship?

Roseline Karambakuwa, Ronney Ncwadi and Andrew Phiri

1904: On the (in)efficiency of cryptocurrencies: Have they taken daily or weekly random walks?

Natalya Apopo and Andrew Phiri

1903: South African unemployment in the post-financial crisis era: What are the determinants?

Lutho Mbekeni and Andrew Phiri

1902: A sectoral approach to the electricity-growth nexus in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

Poppy Dyasi and Andrew Phiri

1901: Economic growth, environmental degradation and business cycles in Eswatini

Andrew Phiri

1837: An evaluation of the trade relationship between South Africa and China: An empirical review 1995-2014

Simbarashe Mhaka and Leward Jeke

1836: A comparative analysis of the determinants of South African bilateral trade flows with the European Union-Southern African Development Community economic partnership agreement and trade development and cooperation agreement

Simbarashe Mhaka and Leward Jeke

1835: Financial liberalisation, financial development and financial crises in SADC countries

Clement Moyo and Pierre Le Roux

1834: Financial development and economic growth in SADC countries: A panel study

Clement Moyo and Pierre Le Roux

1833: Renewable energy-economic growth nexus in South Africa: Linear, nonlinear or non-existent?

Bothwell Nyoni and Andrew Phiri

1832: Pursuing the Philips curve in an African monarchy: A Swazi case study

Andrew Phiri

1831: A sequential panel selection approach to cointegration analysis: An application to Wagner’s law for South Africa

Xolisa Vayi and Andrew Phiri

1830: Is Swaziland on a path of convergence towards her main trading partners?

Andrew Phiri

1829: Fitting Okun's law for the Swazi Kingdom: Will a nonlinear specification do?

Andrew Phiri

1828: Infant mortality rates and female literacy rates in SADC countries: An empirical analysis

Clement Moyo, Thando Mkhombo, Tafadzwa Chitenderu and Mirada Nach

1827: Endogenous monetary approach to optimal inflation-growth nexus in Swaziland

Andrew Phiri

1826: Unobserved structural shifts and asymmetries in the random walk model for stock returns in African frontier markets

David De Villiers, Natalya Apopo and Andrew Phiri

1825: Persistence of suicides in G20 countries: SPSM approach to three generations of unit root tests

Izunna Anyikwa, Nicolene Haaman and Andrew Phiri

1824: Inflation-growth nexus in Botswana: Can lower inflation really spur growth in the country?

Gosego Mothuti and Andrew Phiri

1823: FDI as a contributing factor to economic growth in Burkina Faso: How true is this?

Zandile Zezethu and Andrew Phiri

1822: Robust analysis of convergence in per capita GDP in BRICS economies

Andrew Phiri

1821: The causal links between renewable electricity generation and economic growth in South Africa

Hlalefang Khobai

1820: Trade openess and economic growth in SADC countries

Clement Moyo and Hlalefang Khobai

1819: A provincial perspective of nonlinear Okun's law for emerging markets: The case of South Africa

Kambale Kavese and Andrew Phiri

1818: The impact of taxation on economic growth in South Africa

Hlalefang Khobai and Khumbuzile Dladla

1817: Is it the natural rate or hysteresis hypothesis for unemployment in Newly Industrialized Economies?

Dieu Nsenga, Mirada Nach, Hlalefang Khobai, Clement Moyo and Andrew Phiri

1816: Structural changes in exchange rate-stock returns dynamics in South Africa: Examining the role of crisis and new trading platform

Andrew Phiri

1815: The effect of unemployment on economic growth in South Africa (1994-2016)

Sibusiso Makaringe and Hlalefang Khobai

1814: Fiscal sustainability in BRICS countries: Evidence from asymmetric unit root test augmented with Fourier function

Andrew Phiri

1813: Interest rate reforms and economic growth: the savings and investment channel

Clement Moyo and Pierre Le Roux

1812: African stock markets integration: an analysis of the relationship between major stock markets in Africa

Izunna Anyikwa, Micheal Brookes and Pierre Le Roux

1811: Financial develpoment and economic growth in Brazil: A non-linear ARDL approach

Clement Moyo, Hlalefang Khobai, Nwabisa Kolisi and Zizipho Mbeki

1810: How sustainable are fiscal budgets in the Kingdom of Swaziland?

Andrew Phiri

1809: The impact of exchange rate on exports in South Africa

Mashilana Ngondo and Hlalefang Khobai

1808: Investigating the Link between Foreign direct investment, Energy consumption and Economic growth in Argentina

Hlalefang Khobai and Nomahlubi Mavikela

1807: Renewable Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in Turkey. An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

Hlalefang Khobai

1806: Renewable energy consumption and economic growth in Indonesia. Evidence from the ARDL bounds testing approach

Hlalefang Khobai

1805: Renewable energy consumption and economic growth in Argentina: A multivariate co-integration analysis

Hlalefang Khobai

1804: Are fiscal budgets sustainable in South Africa? Evidence from provincial level data

Kambale Kavese and Andrew Phiri

1803: Is there hysteresis in South African unemployment? Evidence form the post-recessionary period

Vuyo Pikoko and Andrew Phiri

1802: Determinants of FDI in South Africa: Do macroeconomic variables matter?

Nandipha Dondashe and Andrew Phiri

1801: The inflation-growth relationship in SSA inflation targeting countries

Nomahlubi Mavikela, Simbarashe Mhaka and Andrew Phiri

1719: Investigating the macroeconomic determinants of household debt in South Africa

Anelisa Nomatye and Andrew Phiri

1718: Efficient market hypothesis: Evidence from the JSE equity and bond markets

Sinazo Guduza and Andrew Phiri

1717: Is public debt harmful towards economic growth? New evidence from South Africa

Ncebakazi Mhlaba and Andrew Phiri

1716: Education and economic growth in post-Apartheid South Africa

Luxolo Malangeni and Andrew Phiri

1715: A Review of the Nexus Between Energy consumption and Economic growth in the Brics countries

Hlalefang Khobai, Sanderson Abel and Pierre Le Roux

1714: Long-run cointegration between foreign direct investment, direct investment and unemployment and South Africa

Nampasa Chella and Andrew Phiri

1713: Carbon emissions and economic growth in South Africa: A quantile regression approach

Babalwa Mapapu and Andrew Phiri

1712: The causal linkage between trade openness and economic growth in Argentina: Evidence from the ARDL and VECM techniques

Hlalefang Khobai and Nomahlubi Mavikela

1711: Elecricity intensity and unemployment in South Africa: A quantile regression analysis

Tafadzwa Ruzive, Thando Mkhombo, Simbarashe Mhaka, Nomahlubi Mavikela and Andrew Phiri

1710: Threshold convergence between the Federal fund rate and South African equity returns around the colocation period

Andrew Phiri

1709: Has the South African Reserve Bank responded to equity returns since the sub-prime crisis? An asymmetric convergence appraoch

Andrew Phiri

1708: Does renewable energy consumption drive economic growth: Evidence from granger-causality techniques

Hlalefang Khobai and Pierre Le Roux

1707: Electricity consumption and economic growth: A panel data approach to BRICS countries

Hlalefang Khobai

1706: The relationship between trade openness and economic growth: The case of Ghana and Nigeria

Hlalefang Khobai, Nwabisa Kolisi and Clement Moyo

1705: Does unemployment aggravate suicide rates in South Africa? Some empirical evidence

Andrew Phiri and Doreen Mukuka

1704: Changes in the relationshp between interest rates and housing prices in South Africa around the 2007 financial crisis

Nwabisa Kolisi and Andrew Phiri

1703: The FDI-growth nexus in South Africa: A re-examination using quantile regression approach

Hlalefang Khobai, Nicolene Hamman, Thando Mkhombo, Simbarashe Mhaka, Nomahlubi Mavikela and Andrew Phiri

1702: Inflation persistence in BRICS countries: A quantile autoregressive (QAR) approach

Andrew Phiri

1701: The Feldstein-Horioka puzzle and the global financial crisis: Evidence from South Africa using asymmetric cointegation analysis

Andrew Phiri