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201670: The Depreciation of the Pound Post-Brexit: Could it have been Predicted?

Vasilios Plakandaras, Rangan Gupta and Mark Wohar

201669: The Impact of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement on the South African Economy

Leone Walters, Heinrich Bohlmann and Matthew Clance

201668: Differences of Opinion and Stock Market Volatility: Evidence from a Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Approach

Mehmet Balcilar, Riza Demirer, Rangan Gupta and Mark Wohar

201667: Forecasting US GNP Growth: The Role of Uncertainty

Mawuli Segnon, Rangan Gupta, Stelios Bekiros and Mark Wohar

201666: Analysis of Herding in REITs of an Emerging Market: The Case of Turkey

Omokolade Akinsomi, Yener Coskun and Rangan Gupta

201665: Merger and Acquisitions in South African Banking: A Network DEA Model

Peter Wanke, Andrew Maredza and Rangan Gupta

201663: Is Inflation Persistence Different in Reality?

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Juncal Cuñado, Luis Gil-Alana and Rangan Gupta

201662: Can Volume Predict Bitcoin Returns and Volatility? A Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Approach

Mehmet Balcilar, Elie Bouri, Rangan Gupta and David Roubaud

201661: Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Market Returns in Pacific-Rim Countries: Evidence based on a Bayesian Panel VAR Model

Christina Christou, Juncal Cuñado, Rangan Gupta and Christis Hassapis

201660: Do Trend Extraction Approaches Affect Causality Detection in Climate Change Studies?

Xu Huang, Hossein Hassani, Mansi Ghodsi, Zinnia Mukherjee and Rangan Gupta

201659: Forecasting using a Nonlinear DSGE Model

Sergey Ivashchenko and Rangan Gupta

201658: Efficiency in South African Agriculture: A Two-Stage Fuzzy Approach

Goodness Aye, Rangan Gupta and Peter Wanke

201657: Impact of US Biofuel Policy on Food Price in South Africa: Implication for Health and Nutrition

Goodness Aye

201656: Impact of US Uncertainties on Emerging and Mature Markets: Evidence from a Quantile-Vector Autoregressive Approach

Helena Chuliá, Rangan Gupta, Jorge Uribe and Mark Wohar

201655: Near-Rational Expectations: How Far are Surveys from Rationality?

Sergey Ivashchenko and Rangan Gupta

201654: Modelling Long Memory Volatility in the Bitcoin Market: Evidence of Persistence and Structural Breaks

Elie Bouri, Luis Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta and David Roubaud

201653: The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy in South Africa under Inflation Targeting: Evidence from a Time-Varying Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive Model

Goodness Aye, Mehmet Balcilar and Rangan Gupta

201652: The Impact of Oil Shocks in a Small Open Economy New-Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model for South Africa

Rangan Gupta, Hylton Hollander and Mark Wohar

201651: Social Rate of Return to R&D on Various Energy Technologies: Where Should We Invest More? A Study of G7 Countries

Roula Inglesi-Lotz

201650: South African Trends in Health Outcomes and Health-Related Behaviour: Evidence from Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys

Kehinde Omotoso and Steven Koch

201649: Counting the Cost of Drought Induced Productivity Losses in an Agro-Based Economy: The Case of Uganda

Nicholas Kilimani, Jan van Heerden, Heinrich Bohlmann and Elizabeth Roos

201648: Geopolitical Risks and Stock Market Dynamics of the BRICS

Mehmet Balcilar, Matteo Bonato, Riza Demirer and Rangan Gupta

201647: Time-Varying Persistence of Inflation: Evidence from a Wavelet-Based Approach

Heni Boubaker, Giorgio Canarella, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

201646: Does U.S. Macroeconomic News Make the South African Stock Market Riskier?

Esin Cakan and Rangan Gupta

201645: Gold Futures Returns and Realized Moments: A Forecasting Experiment Using a Quantile-Boosting Approach

Matteo Bonato, Riza Demirer, Rangan Gupta and Christian Pierdzioch

201644: The Links between Crude Oil Prices and GCC Stock Markets: Evidence from Time-Varying Granger Causality Tests

Mehmet Balcilar, Ismail Genc and Rangan Gupta

201643: The Effect of Gold Market Speculation on REIT Returns in South Africa: A Behavioral Perspective

Omokolade Akinsomi, Mehmet Balcilar, Riza Demirer and Rangan Gupta

201642: Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Data Analysis

Kafayat Amusa, Nara Monkam and Nicola Viegi

201641: Housing Market Spillovers in South Africa: Evidence from an Estimated Small Open Economy DSGE Model

Rangan Gupta and Xiaojin Sun

201640: Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Carolyn Chisadza and Manoel Bittencourt

201639: Components of Economic Policy Uncertainty and Predictability of US Stock Returns and Volatility: Evidence from a Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantile Approach

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Clement Kyei

201638: The Effect of Investor Sentiment on Gold Market Dynamics

Mehmet Balcilar, Matteo Bonato, Riza Demirer and Rangan Gupta

201637: Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Forecast Real Housing Returns in a Panel of OECD Countries? A Bayesian Approach

Christina Christou, Rangan Gupta and Christis Hassapis

201636: Structural Breaks in Renewable Energy in South Africa: A Bai and Perron Break Test Application

Jaco Weideman and Roula Inglesi-Lotz

201635: Are Housing Price Cycles Asymmetric? Evidence from the US States and Metropolitan Areas

Christophe André, Rangan Gupta and John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba

201634: Can Weather Conditions in New York Predict South African Stock Returns?

Nicholas Apergis and Rangan Gupta

201633: Dynamic Inconsistency, Falling Cost of Capital Relocation and Preferential Taxation of Foreign Capital

Kaushal Kishore

201632: A Note on Home Bias and the Gain from Non-Preferential Taxation

Kaushal Kishore

201631: Does U.S. News Impact Asian Emerging Markets? Evidence from Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Test

Mehmet Balcilar, Esin Cakan and Rangan Gupta

201630: Are Preferential Tax Holidays Dynamic Inconsistent?

Kaushal Kishore

201629: Price Convergence Patterns across U.S. States

Christina Christou, Juncal Cunado and Rangan Gupta

201628: The Political and Economic Dynamics of Foreign Aid: A Case Study of United States and Chinese Aid to Sub-Sahara Africa

Kafayat Amusa, Nara Monkam and Nicola Viegi

201627: A Time Series Analysis of Long Island Sound Lobster Fishery

Zinnia Mukherjee, Dipak Dey and Rangan Gupta

201626: Do Terror Attacks Predict Gold Returns? Evidence from a Quantile-Predictive-Regression Approach

Rangan Gupta, Anandamayee Majumdar, Christian Pierdzioch and Mark Wohar

201625: Testing the Efficiency of the Art Market using Quantile-Based Unit Root Tests with Sharp and Smooth Breaks

Goodness Aye, Tsangyao Chang, Wen-Yi Chen, Rangan Gupta and Mark Wohar

201624: Periodically Collapsing Bubbles in the South African Stock Market

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Charl Jooste and Mark Wohar

201623: Emerging Multinational Corporations: A Prominent Player in the Global Economy

Mustafa Sakr and Andre Jordaan

201622: Forecasting Equity Premium in a Panel of OECD Countries: The Role of Economic Policy Uncertainty

Christina Christou and Rangan Gupta

201621: Pareto Optimality and Indeterminacy of General Equilibrium under Knightian Uncertainty

Wei Ma

201620: Effectiveness of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area: The Role of US Economic Policy Uncertainty

Mehmet Balcilar, Riza Demirer, Rangan Gupta and Renee van Eyden