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Interrelations among stock prices of South Africa and the United States and the rand/dollar exchange rate
(Stellenbosch University, 2007)
This paper seeks to examine the dynamic short-term causal relations and the long-term
equilibrium relations between the two major financial assets, stock prices of the US and South
Africa and the rand/US$ exchange rate. ...
A series of national accounts-consistent estimates of poverty and inequality in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2007)
This paper makes a unique contribution to the South African literature in combining data from an alternative source of household survey data – the All Media and Product Survey (AMPS) – with national accounts income trends ...
Crime and HIV/AIDS in the Western Cape: business support organizations and business owners' perceptions
(Academic Journals, 2007)
Economic growth will be severely curtailed if crime and HIV/AIDS is not effectively dealt with. Despite
the fact that the business support organizations and the SMME owners are dissatisfied with the crime
situation, the ...
Forecasting volatility in sub-Saharan Africa’s commodity markets
(Business Perspectives, 2007)
Using spot prices from eighteen commodities traded by most Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper evaluates the out-of-sample volatility forecasting efficiency of seven models. The models evaluated included random walk, ...
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
(University of Cape Town, 2007)
This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets. This allows us to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to ...