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236: Measuring Institutions: Indicators of Political and Economic Institutions in Namibia: 1884 – 2008

Bernhard P. Zaaruka and Johannes W. Fedderke

235: The Rand as a Carry Trade Target: Risk, Returns and Policy Implications

Sean Smith and Shakill Hassan

234: What Price the Court of St. James? Political Influences on Ambassadorial Postings of the United States of America

Dennis Jett and Johannes W. Fedderke

233: Bank concentration and the interest rate pass-through in Sub-Saharan African countries

Heinrich Nel, Tadiwa Mangwengwende and Zivanemoyo Chinzara

232: Measuring the Impact of Trade Finance on South African Export Flows

Adrian Saville and Marcel Kohler

231: Indicators of Political and Economic Institutions in Tanzania: 1884 – 2008

Bernhard P. Zaaruka and Johannes W. Fedderke

230: Finding the benefits: Estimating the impact of the South African child support grant

Marisa Coetzee

229: Clean Fuel-Saving Technology Adoption in Urban Ethiopia

Abebe Damte and Steven F. Koch

228: Fiscal regime changes and the sustainability of fiscal imbalance in South Africa; a smooth transition error-correction approach

Niek J. Schoeman, Ruthira Naraidoo and Samuel S. Jibao

227: Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence from South African Fishing Communities

Justine Burns, Kerri Brick and Martine Visser

226: Gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel demand in South Africa

Willem H. Boshoff

225: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Micro Enterprises: Do Banks Matter? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ruthira Naraidoo

224: Antitrust market definition using statistical learning techniques and consumer characteristics

Willem H. Boshoff

223: Effects of climatic conditions and agro-ecological settings on the productive efficiencies of small-holder farmers in Ethopia

Temesgen T. Deressa

222: Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment of South African Telecommunications Firms into Sub-Saharan Africa

Henry Stephan and John M. Luiz

221: Business Cycle and Bank Capital Regulation: Basel II Procyclicality

Guangling Dave Liu and Nkhahle E. Seeiso

220: Heterogeneity Happens: How Rights Matter in Economic Development

Johannes W. Fedderke, Kamil Akramov and Robert E. Klitgaard

219: Constructing Institutional Measures: Indicators of Political and Property Rights in Mozambique, 1900-2005

Guilherme Oliviera, John M. Luiz and Luis B. Pereira

218: Does School Education Reduce the Likelihood of Societal Conflict in Africa?

Julius A. Agbor

217: Dynamic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in Malawi

Harold P. E. Ngawala and Nicola Viegi

216: Aftercare of inward foreign direct investment: A case study of South Africa

Benjamin Manasoe and Ronald Mears

215: What are the Distributional Implications of Halving Poverty in South Africa when Growth Alone is not Enough?

Fiona Tregenna

214: Economies of Scale and Pension Fund Plans: Evidence from South Africa

Albert Touna-Mama, Johannes W. Fedderke and Neryvia Pillay Bell

213: Settler skills and colonial development

Dieter von Fintel and Johan Fourie

212: An Analysis of Specialist Surgeons and their Practices

Jean D. Slabbert and Steven F. Koch

211: Rarer Actions: Giving and Taking in Third-Party Punishment Games

Simon Halliday

210: Relative standing and subjective well-being in South Africa: The role of perceptions, expectations and income mobility

Daniela Casale

209: Determinants of Stock Market Prices in Namibia

Joel H. Eita

208: Optimal liquidity provision through a demand deposit scheme: The Jacklin critique revisited

Alexander Zimper

207: Alternative indices of political freedoms, property rights, and political instability for Zambia

Farayi Gwenhamo, I. Lourenco and Johannes W. Fedderke

206: Production, Inequality and Poverty linkages in South Africa

Nicholas Ngepah

205: Gendered Trends in Poverty in the Post-Apartheid Period, 1997 – 2006

Dorrit Posel and Michael Rogan

204: Electricity Intensities of the OECD and South Africa: A Comparison

James N. Blignaut and Roula Inglesi-Lotz

203: South Africa’s Electricity Consumption: A Sectoral Decomposition Analysis

Roula Inglesi-Lotz

202: Volatility Spillovers across South African Asset Classes during Domestic and Foreign Financial Crises

Alain Kabundi and Andrew S. Duncan

201: Fiscal Performance and Sustainability of Local Government in South Africa – An Empirical Analysis

Niek J. Schoeman

200: Band-pass filters and business cycle analysis: Highfrequency and medium-term deviation cycles in South Africa and what they measure

Willem H. Boshoff

199: Who is Credit Constrained Among Denied or Discouraged Borrowers?

Albert Touna-Mama

198: Risk-return tradeoff and the behaviour of volatility on the South African stock market: Evidence from both aggregate and disaggregate data

‪Neville Z. Mandimika and Zivanemoyo Chinzara

197: Food inflation in South Africa: Some implications for economic policy

Logan Rangasamy

196: Analysing Alternative Policy Response to High Oil Prices, Using an Energy Integrated CGE Microsimulation Approach for South Africa

Ismail Fofana, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu and Ramos Mabugu

195: Mobilising Tax Revenue to Finance Development: The Case for Property Taxation in Francophone Africa

Nara Monkam

194: Foreign Direct Investment and the Internationalisation of South African Mining Companies into Africa

John M. Luiz and Meshal Ruplal

193: Indirect Taxation and Gender Equity: Evidence from South Africa

Daniela Casale

192: Exchange Rate Determination Under Monetary Policy Rules in a Financially Underdeveloped Economy: A Simple Model and Application to Mozambique

Félix Simione and Shakill Hassan

191: Financial Development and Economic Growth in Latin America: Is Schumpeter Right?

Manoel Bittencourt

190: Poverty and Land Redistribution: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from South Africa’s LRAD program

Michael Carter

189: Forecasting Monetary Policy Rules in South Africa

Ivan Paya and Ruthira Naraidoo

188: The Sustainability of South African Current Account Deficits

Albert Touna-Mama and Peter Searle

187: Macroeconomic uncertainty and emerging market stock market volatility: The case for South Africa

Zivanemoyo Chinzara