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541: Do Capital Requirements Affect Cost of Intermediation? Evidence from a Panel of South African Banks

Andrew Maredza

540: Social networks and maternal health care utilisation in Tanzania

Alfred K. Mukong and Justine Burns

539: Financial sector development and threshold effect of inflation in ECOWAS and SADC: A Panel smooth transition regression approach

Sulemana Mahawiya

538: Growth (and segregation) by rail: How the railways shaped Colonial South Africa

Alfonso Herranz-Loncan and Johan Fourie

537: Art investment as a portfolio diversification strategy in South Africa

Brett Scott, Ferdi Botha and Jen D. Snowball

536: Real convergence using TAR panel unit root tests: an application to Southern African Development Community

Christian K. Tipoy

535: The Dinaledi intervention programme in Eastern Cape schools

Thobeka Ncanywa

534: A New International Database on Financial Fragility

Badi H. Baltagi, David Fielding, Johan Rewilak, Panicos Demetriades, Peter Rousseau, Robert Lensink and ‪Svetlana Andrianova‬

533: The Demand for Reproductive Health Care

Gauthier Kashalala and Steven F. Koch

532: Globalisation and Conflicts: A Theoretical Approach

André C. Jordaan, Bonginkosi Mamba and Matthew W. Clance

531: The role of international institutions of global governance in steering globalization

Charles V. R. Wait and T. A. Thibane

530: What we talk about when we talk about saving: Concepts and measures of household saving and their application to South Africa

Anna Orthofer

529: Financial sustainability of Tanzanian saving and credit cooperatives

Meshach J. Aziakpono and Nyankomo Marwa

528: Financial sector development, inflation and openness: A comparative panel study of ECOWAS and SADC

Sulemana Mahawiya

527: Small-scale Subsistence Farming, Food Security, Climate Change and Adaptation in South Africa: Male-Female Headed Households and Urban-Rural Nexus

Byela Tibesigwa and Martine Visser

526: Trade Liberalization, Rival Exporters and Reallocation of Production: An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing

Asha Sundaram and Lawrence Edwards

525: The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in South Africa

Nonso Obikili

524: An Economy-Wide Evaluation of New Power Generation in South Africa: The Case of Kusile and Medupi

Heinrich R. Bohlmann, Jessika A. Bohlmann and Roula Inglesi-Lotz

523: Some Clarity on Banks as Financial Intermediaries and Money ‘Creators’

Nicholas Spearman

522: The role of network effects and consumer heterogeneity in adoption of mobile phones: evidence from South Africa

Lukasz Grzybowski

521: Bayesian learning with multiple priors and non-vanishing ambiguity

Alexander Zimper and Wei Ma

520: Debunking the myth that a legal trade will solve the rhino horn crisis: A system dynamics model for market demand

Douglas J. Crookes and James N. Blignaut

519: Optimal Information Transmission

Wei Ma

518: The Impact of a Shopping Centre on the Value of Adjacent Residential Properties

Michael C. Sale

517: “Impending ruin†or “remarkable wealth†? The role of private credit markets in a settler colony

Christie Swanepoel and Johan Fourie

516: Financial Liberalisation and Economic Growth in the SADC

Clement Moyo and Pierre Le Roux

515: The Short Term Economic Impact of Levying E-Tolls on Industries

Francois J. Stofberg and Jan H. van Heerden

514: The Impact of Fractionalization on Cultural Distance Measures

John M. Luiz

512: Trade Linkages and Business Cycle Co-movement: An Empirical Analysis of Africa and its Main Trading Partners using Global VAR

Emilie C. Kinfack-Djoumessi and Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

511: The Cape of Perfect Storms: Colonial Africa’s first financial crash, 1788-1793

Johan Fourie and Roy Havemann

510: Technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian saving and credit cooperatives

Meshach J. Aziakpono and Nyankomo Marwa

509: Macroeconomic Uncertainty in South Africa

Chris Redl

508: How the ‘Hand of Henry’ Benefited the South African Economy

Johan Fourie and Maria Santana-Gallego

507: The expected well-being of urban refugees and asylum seekers in Johannesburg

Talita Dalton-Greyling

506: A comparative analysis of the synchronisation of business cycles for developed and developing economies with the world business cycle

Douglas J. Crookes, Ilse Botha and James N. Blignaut

505: Institutionalisation of Derivatives Trading and Economic Growth: Evidence from South Africa

Audrey N. Bekale, Cobus Vermeulen and Erika Botha

504: The Migrant Network Effect: An empirical analysis of rural-to-urban migration in South Africa

Caroline Stapleton

503: Measuring Core Inflation in South Africa

Gideon Du Rand, Kevin Kotze and Stan Du Plessis

502: Determining Visitor Preferences for Rhinoceros Conservation Management at Private, Ecotourism Game Reserves in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: A Choice Modeling Experiment

Deborah E. Lee and Mario du Preez

501: Buyer-Seller Relationships in International Trade: Do Your Neighbors Matter?

Asha Sundaram and Fariha Kamal

500: Art Critic Index: A Proxy for Cultural Value in the Context of the South Africa Art Market

Catherine Kannemeyer, Matthew Olckers and Michael Stevenson

499: Mechanism between mining sector and economic growth in Zimbabwe, is it a resource curse?

Leonard Mandishara and Nyasha Mahonye

498: “I would rather have a decent jobâ€: Barriers preventing street waste pickers from improving their socioeconomic conditions

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Phillip F. Blaauw and Rinie Schenck

497: The Influence of Higher Moments and Non-Normality on the Sharpe Ratio: A South African Perspective

Chris van Heerden

496: Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Class Size on Educational Achievement in Lesotho

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

495: Assessment of Monetary Union in SADC: Evidence from Cointegration and Panel Unit Root Tests

Francis M. Kemegue, Marthinus C. Breitenbach and Mulatu F. Zerihun

494: Comparing Linear and Non-linear Benchmarks of Exchange Rate Forecasting

Ilse Botha, Marinda Pretorius and S. J. Retief

493: The South African labour market, 1995-2013

Atoko Kasongo, Derek Yu, Lyle Festus and Mariana Moses

492: Evaluating Non-Linear Approaches in Forecasting Tourist Arrivals

Andrea Saayman and Ilse Botha

491: When selection trumps persistence: The lasting effect of missionary education in South Africa

Christie Swanepoel and Johan Fourie