DOWNLOADS - CONFERENCE 2007

Presidential Address by Professor Raymond Parsons

Papers delivered at the 2007 Conference.

ABBAS, F & MUSHTAQ, K: Health spending and development: Estimating long run relationship using cointegration approach in Pakistan 1960-2005

ABOR, PA, ABEKA-NKRUMAH, G & ABOR, J: An examination of hospital governance in Ghana

AKANBI, OA & SCHOEMAN, N: Measuring the determinants of educational spending in Africa

AMUSA, H,MABUNDA, R & MABUGU, R: Fiscal illusion at the local sphere: An empirical test of the flypaper effect using   South African municipal data

AVALLONE, P & SALVEMINI, R: Microcredit in the past: Lending to the poor in pre-unification Southern Italy

AZIAKPONO , MS , KLEIMEIER,S & SANDER, H: Banking market integration in the SADC countries: Evidence from      interest rate analyses

BANDA, L: Financial development and economic growth nexus: A multivariate VAR analysis of Zambia’s economy

BARNARD, H:  Uneven domestic knowledge bases and the success of foreign firms in the US

BEZUIDENHOUT, H & NAUDÉ, W: Foreign direct investment and trade in the Southern African Development Community

BHATTACHARYA,S: Determinants of private corporate investment: Evidence from Indian manufacturing firms

BIYASE, ME & BONGA-BONGA, L: South Africa ’s growth paradox

BLAAUW,D & BOTHMA,L: A decade of minimum wages for domestic workers in South Africa

BLACK, PA & NEPEMBE, M: Foreign direct investment (FDI): What is it?

BLACK, PA: Alcohol taxes versus preventative measures: A theoretical comparison

BONGA-BONGA,L, GREYLING,L & VAN ZYL,H: Income redistribution, economic growth and fiscal policy: An application of the CGE analysis

BOOYSEN, F & SUTTEN, C: Technical efficiency in primary health care facilities in the Free State province

BOOYSEN,F & STONE,A: A diagnosis and prognosis of health economics research

BOSHOFF,WH & FOURIE,J: Estimating the South African business cycle: 1652-1793

BREITENBACH, M, SEKE, LHM  & STEYN, T: Economic impact assessment of adopting the fair value accounting principle in South Africa

BREITENBACH,M: Empirical tests of changing production structure and labour input changes in SA textiles

BRIERLEY,P & WEBB, A: HIV/AIDS risk planning for small/medium enterprises within the Albany Area of South Africa: Current costing of future benefits

BURGER, C & BURGER, R: Supply and demand in the market for companionship: the role of popularity, selectivity and types in romantic matching

BURGER, C: Sample selection bias and the South African wage function

BURROWS, LE Roux: Does dynamics really contribute to better CGE model results?

CALITZ, E & FOURIE,J: Infrastructure in South Africa : Who is to finance and who is to pay?

CASALE, D & POSEL, D: Bridewealth and the marital earnings premium for men: Evidence from South Africa

CHASOMERIS, M: Reassessing the measurement of international transport costs

COETZEE, J: Financial intermediation theory and the role of information in banking

CREAMER,K & RANKIN,N: Price setting behaviour in South Africa – Stylised facts using consumer price microdata

DE BEER, J & KEYSER, N: Economical forces, political factors and returns on the JSE: A historical perspective

DE JAGER, P & DE WET, J: An appropriate financial perspective for a balanced scorecard

DE MILANDER,M: Killed by South Africa’s institutional disequilibrium

DE VILLIERS,P & STEYN,G: Effect of change in state funding of higher education on research output in South Africa

DE WET, AH & VAN EYDEN, R: Linking global economic dynamics to a South African specific credit portfolio

DOBREVA, R & SCHOER, V: When do lower upstream prices increase downstream employment? Examining the mechanics of value chain linkages

DU PLESSIS, S & DU PLESSIS, S: A new and direct test of the "gender bias" in multiple-choice questions

DUNNE, JP, PERLO-FREEMAN, S & SMITH, R: Determining military expenditures: Arms races and spill-overs in panel data

EITA,JH & DU TOIT,CB: Explaining investment behaviour of the Namibian economy

FARRELL,G, JAKOET,J AND RANGASAMY,L: Estimating underlying inflation using a structured time series approach

FOSU,OE & JOSEPH, MF: Aggregate import demand and expenditure components in Ghana: An econometric analysis

GELDENHUYS, JP: Equity in health care finance after the abolishment of user fees: The experience of South Africa

GILBERT,E & DU PLESSIS,S: The relative profitability of South African manufacturing firms (1980-2006)

GUMATA, N & MASHIANE, V: Growth in private sector credit extension in South Africa 1965 to 2006: Trend, cycle or boom?

GUPTA, R & DU TOIT, C: Active vs passive policies of unemployment: Growth and public finance perspectives

GUSTAFSSON,S, KALWIJ,A & WORKU,S : Educational attainment differences between population groups in South Africa and the timing and number of births

HART, J: How to be a good economist

HAVEMAN,R & KULARATNE, C: Why are some exchange rates more volatile than others? Evidence from middle-income countries

HEINTZ, J & POSEL, D: Revisiting informal employment and segmentation in the South African labour market

HEYMANS,A & STYGER.P: Seasonality as an unobservable component in South African agricultural market data

HOLDEN, M: Market relevance in a small open distant economy

HORN, PM & JANSEN, AL: Do tutorial programmes matter in the performance of Economics students? A case study of the Economics 178 course at Stellenbosch University

ILORAH, R: Are there important lessons from the failed 1980s SAPs in Africa?

JAFTA, R & REID, S: Regulation and innovation in the South African broadband sector: A National System of Innovation perspective

JANSE VAN RENSBURG,J & BURGER, P: Metropolitan house prices in South Africa: Do they converge?

JANSE VAN RENSBURG,L: South African house prices: A bubbly story or not?

JANSEN, AL & SCHULZ, C: Environment, urban development & crime - establishing the value of freshwater lake in an urban setting: The case of Zeekoevlei

JORDAAN, AC & EITA, JH: South Africa 's wood export potential using a gravity model approach

KABUNDI, A: Synchronization between South Africa and the U.S: A structural dynamic factor analysis

KEETON-STOLK,L: The economics of demand for the South African National Lottery

KLEYNHANS, EPJ: Evaluating the results of the Platinum Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) after ten years

KNEDLIK, T &  SCHEUFELE, R: Three methods of forecasting currency crises: Which made the run in signaling the South African currency crisis of June 2006?

KOCH,SF: Returns to education and rationing in the labour market

KOHLER, MRAR : Trading South Africa’s energy resources: An input-output analysis

KRUGEL,L: The size and direction of inflation bias in South Africa

KRUGELL,W & MATTHEE,M: Measuring the export potential of cities and towns in South Africa

LEMBETHE, N & MAPHELA, B: Facts vs theories of saving in South Africa

LIU, G & GUPTA, R: A small scale DSGE model for forecasting the South African economy

LIU, G: Growth theory and application: The case of South Africa

LLOYD, K: A critical analysis of the South African Competition Tribunal's approach to excessive pricing

LUMBY, AB: The early years of the motor car industry in South Africa, 1910-1961

MARINKOV,M & BURGER,P: The commodity-consumer price connection: Evidence from South Africa

MATJEKANA, KSM: What route for African economic integration?

MATSASENG, K: Asymmetry of shocks in the Rand Monetary Area

MATTHEE, M, GRATER, S & KRUGELL, W: On exports and domestic transport costs: An industry viewpoint

MEARS, R: A vision for African globalisation

MEARS,R: Historical development of township urbanisation in Johannesburg

MOHR,P: On inflation

MOKOENA, MT, GUPTA,RT & VAN EYDEN, R: Testing for fractional integration in SADC real exchange rates

MOKOENA,T: The exchange rate determination puzzle: A discussion of general equilibrium and microstructure approaches

MOLEPO, MJ: Development, economic development and sustainable development with special reference to Africa

MUNYAMA,VT: Modelling technical inefficiencies in a stochastic frontier profit function: Application to bank mergers

NAUDÉ,W, MCGILLIVRAY.M & ROSSOUW,S: Measuring the vulnerability of sub-national regions: The case of South Africa

NHABINDE, VC & SCHOEMAN, N: Social security and fertility rates in sub-Saharan African countries

NYAMONGO, E & SCHOEMAN, N: The determinants of the structure of government expenditure in South Africa

OCRAN,MK: Interrelations among stock prices of South Africa and the United States and the rand/dollar exchange rate

OYEWUMI,OA, JOOSTE,A, BRITZ,W & VAN SCHALKWYK,HD: An application of micro-economic theory to trade modeling: Empirical evidence

PEARSON,JJ , VIVIERS,W & CUYVERS,L: Identifying export opportunities: The case of South Africa

PEROLD, M: Challenging the old war horse: Is the flat tax a plausible alternative to the progressive system?

POOL, A: Remittances: An effective way to alleviate poverty?

POSEL, D & MULLER, C: Is there evidence of a wage penalty to female part-time employment in South Africa?

POTGIETER,DR & SEEDAT,ED: Calendar anomalies in South African equity returns

PRETORIUS, A, PRINSLOO, P & UYS, T: Factors influencing the success of students in first-year Economics in an Open Distance Learning context

RANGASAMY, L & BRICK, K: The implications of OECD growth for South African exports

RANKIN, N: Firm growth, job switching and wages in South Africa

RAPUTSOANE, L: The leading indicator qualities of the purchasing managers’ index for economic activity in South Africa

ROSSOUW, J & FOURIE, J: A consideration of alternatives to expedite macro-economic convergence of countries in the SADC region

RUSIKE, TG, AZIAKPONO, MJ & SNOWBALL, JD: An analysis of the behaviour of inward foreign direct investment to South Africa

SAAYMAN,A & MATTHEE,M: A panel data approach to the behavioural equilibrium exchange rate of the ZAR

SHA, R, NAUDÉ, W & VIVIERS, W: Income disparities across Chinese Provinces: Revisiting the convergence- divergence debate

SIEBRITS, FK: Why have numerical fiscal rules become so popular?

SIMSON, R: Perfect competition, monopoly, derived demand and free trade

SINGLETON, J & VERHOEF, G: The internationalisation of banking in New Zealand and South Africa since 1970

SMIT, B: The sustainability of South Africa’s current account deficit

SNOWBALL,JD, WILLIS,KG  & JEURISSEN,C : Willingness to pay for water service improvements in middle-income urban households in South Africa : A stated choice analysis

STEENKAMP, EA, VIVIERS,W & NAUDÉ, W: The structure and content of the undergraduate economics curricula   offered by South African universities

STRYDOM, PDF: Trade theory in a changing world

SURRUYS, M-W: The Austrian Netherlands’ transport policy

TAPSOBA, JA: Reducing African macroeconomic asymmetries: Could bilateral trade help?

TENDANI,M & NOMBULELO,G: Distribution costs in coal mining in South Africa

TSHEOLE, T & AZIAKPONO, MJ: Empirical investigation into the nature and stability of demand for broad money (M2) in Botswana

UECKERMANN,EM, BLIGNAUT,JN & GUPTA,R: A panel bargaining model within the regional boundaries of the South African grain industry

UECKERMANN,EM, BLIGNAUT,JN, GUPTA,R &RAUBENHEIMER,J: Modelling preferences of South African grain farmers for adopting derivative contracts using discrete choice models

VAN AARDE,N & VIVIERS,W: Export promotion in South Africa: Evaluation of the EMIA scheme at the DTI

VAN DER MERWE,J & KRUGELL,W: Measuring the quality of local governance in South Africa

VAN DYK, D: A unified trading strategy combining technical trading rules and time series econometrics

VAN NIEKERK, A: Investigating the marginalisation of Africa: Evidence and explanations

VAN ZYL, A, MUIRHEAD, D,HONGORO, C, CHANAKIRA, M , KUMARANAYAKE, L &  CHURCHYARD, G: The determinants and composition of economic impact of HIV in low, medium and high prevalence workforces in the absence of antiretroviral treatment

VAN ZYL, H: The driving forces for project-management efficiency in the public sector

VAN ZYL, H: The ranking of dimensions for project-management efficiency in the public sector

VILJOEN,C: Expected settler mortality and European colonial strategies: A qualitative recourse to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson’s (2002) quantitative treatise

VIVIAN, RW: From Keynes' S = I equation to Profits (P) = 0

VIVIAN,RW: The evolution of property rights and institutions: evidence from early South African history

VON FINTEL, D & BLACK, PA: From labour market misperceptions to wage scarring - the long-term impacts of youth unemployment

WENZEL, P & STEWART, R: (Un)sustainable growth, (Un)employment and poverty: A pro-poor analysis of South Africa’s development performance