Research Publications: Recent submissions
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International initiative prepares students for citizenship
(José Frantz, 2020)We live in an era of complexity, uncertainty, grave challenges and global development threats. These include extreme poverty and inequality, identity politics, intolerance, societal polarisation and populist politics ... -
Analysis of the Impact of Fiscal policy on economic growth in South Africa: VECM approach
(2018)Fiscal policy ensures macroeconomic stability as a precondition for growth at the macro level. This study investigates the impact of fiscal policy on economic growth of South Africa from 1960 to 2014 through a Cointegrated ... -
Measuring inequality for the rural households of Eritrea using Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient
(IISTE, 2016)This paper attempts to accurately measure inequality. The large sample of consumption expenditure data taken from Eritrean rural household survey of 2009 allows the use of parameterized continuous functions of Lorenz Curve ... -
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. ... -
Energy consumption, carbon emission and economic growth in Nigeria: Implications for energy policy and climate protection in Nigeria
(2013)The paper analyses causal effect of oil production and carbon emission from gas flaring on the growth rate in Nigeria between 1970 and 2011. The result revealed that economic growth rate, change in crude oil production ... -
Determinant of the relationship between labour force participation in South Africa for both male and female
(University of Cape Town, 2016)Reducing poverty and inequality are key challenges in South Africa. Access to the labour market and earnings differentials are the main drivers of poverty and inequality in South Africa (Leibbrandt et al.,2010). Educational ... -
Reflecting on racial discrimination in the post-apartheid South African labour market
(University of Cape Town, 2014)During the 20th century, South Africa’s economy became increasingly ordered and controlled along racial lines. Since the official demise of apartheid in 1994, the State has implemented various policies aimed at redress. In ... -
The effects of interest rate spread on non-performing loans
(Progressive Academic Publishing, 2016)This paper investigated the impact of interest rate spread on non-performing loans in Namibia. The study employed the techniques of unit root, cointegration and error correction model technique on the quarterly data ... -
The impact of bank-specific determinants on commercial banks’ liquidity in Namibia
(Academic Research Publishing Group, 2016)This paper examined the bank-specific determinants for commercial bank’s liquidity in Namibia. The study was based on quarterly data covering the period 2001:Q1 to 2014:Q2, utilizing the technique of unit root and ordinary ... -
Causal implication of oil production on carbon emission and economic growth in Nigeria
(Opole University, 2016)The paper investigated the causality among carbon emission, oil production and economic growth in Nigeria’s time series data for the period 1970 to 2013. It estimated an autoregressive distributed lag model and used granger ... -
The relationship between inflation and stock prices in Zambia
(Asian Online Journals, 2013)— This study examines a relationship between inflation and stock prices for Zambia, over the period 1999–2011, using monthly all share stock prices and inflation rates. The study employed Augmented-Dickey-Fuller and ... -
The impact of import on inflation in Namibia
(Progressive Academic Publishing, UK, 2017)This study examined the impact of imports on inflation in Namibia using quarterly data from the period 1991Q1 to 2013Q4. The model estimated used imports as a dependent variable, while gross domestic product, money supply ... -
An analysis of the effectiveness of inflation targeting monetary policy framework in South Africa
(Journal of Economics, Management and Trade, 2019)This study is premised on investigating the effectiveness of inflation targeting in South Africa. The methods of analysis include the Vector Autoregressive model (VAR), the unit root test and cointegration test. The ... -
Demand for money in Namibia: An ardl bounds testing approach
(Asian Online Journals, 2013)This paper examines the demand for money in Namibia. Time series techniques such as unit root test, cointegration and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach were utilized on quarterly data for the period 2000:Q1 ... -
Examining the relationship between term structure of interest rates and economic activity in Namibia
(Academic Research Publishing Group, 2016)This paper analysed the forecasting ability of yield-curve as a predictor of the short-run fluctuations in economic activities in Namibia. The study employed the techniques of unit root, cointegration, impulse response functions ... -
Investigating the semi-strong efficiency in Namibia’s foreign exchange market
(Global Business Research Journals, 2014)This paper analyses the semi-strong form efficiency of the foreign exchange market in Namibia using three bilateral exchange rates. The semi-strong form efficiency was examined using the cointegration test and Granger ... -
Investigating the causal relationship between primary commodities exports and economic growth in Namibia
(Global Business Research Journals, 2016)This paper analyses the causal relationship between primary commodities exports and economic growth in Namibia using quarterly data for the period 1998 to 2014. Time-series econometric techniques such as unit root, ... -
Revenue productivity of the tax system in Namibia: Tax buoyancy estimation approach
(2019)Buoyancy refers to how tax revenue responds to a gross domestic product without correcting for discretionary alterations in the tax system. The paper assessed the buoyancy of Namibia’s overall tax system in an attempt ... -
Macroeconomic determinants of commercial banks’ liquidity in Namibia
(Progressive Academic Publishing, 2016)Searching for new ways remains a primary concern among scholars. In this paper the macroeconomic determinants of commercial banks’ liquidity in Namibia were considered and analysed. The unit root, bound test for cointegration ... -
The exchange rate channel and monetary policy transmission in Namibia
(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015)This paper investigates the exchange rate channel of monetary policy transmission in Namibia over the quarterly 1993:Q1 - 2011:Q4. The empirical analysis was conducted using innovation accounting tools such as generalised ...