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Keynote Address - Dominick Salvatore The Financial Crisis: Causes, Effects, Prospects

Papers delivered at the 2009 Conference.

ABRAMOWITZ, I. Does belonging to a union pay? Evidence from matched firm-worker data in South Africa

ADJASI, CH. Exchange Rate Volatility and Export Volumes: perspectives from Ghana and South Africa

AGBOR, J. Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Growth In sub-Saharan Africa ?

AGU, C. Economic Crises, Macroeconomic Fundamentals and Stock Pricing in Nigeria : What Lessons for African Countries?

AGU, C. Regional Integration and Intra-Group Trade: Re-Examining the Role of Trade Facilitation in SADC

ANTROBUS, G. Economic Motivations for Volunteering: a case study

ALOYO, N. AND A. WENTZEL The Economic Impact of International Students on South Africa

ASHMORE, J. A methodological manifesto,or why things that can't be measured matter

AZIAKPONO, M. An Analysis of Money Market Linkages between South Africa and Selected Major World Economies

AZIAKPONO, M. Interest Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Policy Regimes in South Africa

AZIAKPONO, M. & M. KHOMO Monetary Policy and the predictive power of the yield spread in South Africa

AZIAKPONO, M & H. NEL A Comparative Analysis of the Divisia Index and the Simple Sum Monetary Aggregates for South Africa

BEZUIDENHOUT, H. FDI in the economic transformation of the post-civil war economies of Angola and Mozambique

BITTENCOURT, M. Polarisation, Populism and Hyperinflation[s]: Some Evidence from Latin America

BIYASE, M. Comparison between income and expenditure patterns of selected rural villages in Limpopo with Soweto suburbs

BLAAUW, D. A decade of Minimum Wages for Domestic Workers in South Africa

BLACK, P. Tobacco Taxes: Impact of Smuggling on External Costs and Government Revenue

BLIGNAUT, Z. The Intertemporal Approach to the Current Account for South Africa

BOHLMANN, H. The Impact of Skilled Emigration from South Africa : A CGE Analysis

BONGA-BONGA, L. Equity Prices, Monetary Policy and Economic Activities in South Africa

BOOYSEN, F. Poverty, development and migration patterns in the Free State province

BOOYSEN, F. With a little help from my friends: demand for membership of HIV/AIDS support groups among public sector ART clients in Free State Province , South Africa

BOSCH, A. & T. HLEKISO Skills challenge in South Africa ’s financial sector

BOSCH,A. & S. KOCH Inflation and the Household: Toward a Measurement of the Welfare Costs of Inflation

BOSHOFF, W. Dimension reduction techniques in market definition for competition policy: an application to Gauteng radio markets

BOTHA, I. A Comparative Analysis of the Synchronisation of Business Cycles for Developed and Developing Economies with the World

BRICK, K. Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence from South African Fishing Communities

BROWNE, C. The HIV Prevention Mix: Making Right Choices

BURGER, C. The Comparability of Matric Marks across different Subjects

BURGER, C.  Role of School Quality in Labour Market Discrimination in South Africa .

BURGER, R. Receive aid or perish? Investigating survival prospects of African NGOs

BURROWS, L. Sensitivity Analysis in CGE Models

CHASOMERIS, C. On the (Mis)Measurement of Transport Costs in Econometric Modelling

COETZEE, C. Growth In Cities: A Kwazulu-Natal Perspective

CONTOGIANNIS, T. The Suprime Crisis: An Overview of Some Lessons and Policy  Implications

CREAMER, K. Review of price setting theories based on pricing conduct in South Africa 2001-2007

DE JAGER, P. Fickle Capital: Fair Value Accounting and the Credit Crisis

DE VILLIERS, P. Fiscal incidence of expenditure on higher education in South Africa . A comparison between 2000 and 2006

DHASMANA, A. Foreign Reserve Adequacy in Sub-Saharan Africa

DIKGANG, J. The effectiveness of the plastic bag policy in Botswana and South Africa

DUNNE, J.P. Military Spending and Growth in Sub Saharan Africa

DU PLESSIS, S. Pure Inflation in South Africa

DU PLESSIS, S. & G. DU RAND A principal-agent view of corruption in the South African Police Service: An economic welfare analysis

DU PLESSIS, STAN AND SOPHIA DU PLESSIS. Happy in the service of the Company: the purchasing power of VOC salaries at the Cape in the 18th century

DU RAND, G. Evaluating the role of limited liability and banking regulation in financial crises

DYUBHELE, N. Socio-economic and demographic characteristics of Wooldridge in the Ngqushwa

ECKWERT, B. Private Investment in Higher Education: Comparing Alternative Funding Schemes

EHLERS, A. Black economic empowerment, apartheid style: The case of Pep Stores Peninsula Limited, 1973-1974

EITA, J. Stock Market Returns and Inflation: Evidence from South Africa

ERASMUS, M AND C.VILJOEN. Homogeneity and Unique Institutions

ESSOP, H. Alternative definitions of informal sector employment in South Africa

ESSOP, H. & E. CALITZ Is South Africa Becoming Fiscally More Centralised?

FAIRBURN, J. Industrial Policies: The New and the Old

FAIRBURN, J. Rewarding Your Own

FARRELL, G. Evaluating the predictive content of leading indicators of inflation for South Africa

FEDDERKE, J. Heterogeneity Happens: How Rights Matter in Economic Development

FEDDERKE, J. Was the Asian Financial Crisis a Transmission of Shocks Through Fundamental Links Between Countries, or a Case of Pure Contagion?: Comparing Evidence from Alternative Measures of Contagion

FOHTUNG, N.G. Achieving universal coverage in health to promote equity and redistribution in South Africa : lessons from ‘successful’ countries

FOHTUNG, N.G. Enhancing the contribution of foreign direct investment to economic growth in South Africa

FOURIE, J. & L. DU TOIT The Sources of Comparative Advantage in Tourism

FOURIE, J AND D. VON FINTEL. An augmented endowments inequality hypothesis: Viticulture in the Cape Colony and the Rise of an Elite Explaining Cape Verde's Peaceful Independence: Population

FRASER, G. Poverty incidence among rural households in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

GELDENHUYS, JP. Does the Child Support Grant Affect Child Welfare in South Africa ?

GILBERT, E., E. CALITZ AND S. DU PLESSIS. Prudential regulations and the solvency of private banks: a critical review of the South African environment since 1970

GOEBEL, J. Enhancing the local economic development (LED) impacts of large property developments

GONDO, J. Financial Development and Economic Growth: South Africa 1970 - 2006

GREENBERG, J & W. SIMBANEGAVI Testing for competition in the South African banking sector

GREYLING, L. More is Less or Less is More? Growth Volatility and Long term Economic Growth performance in South Africa

GREYLING, T. What is the structure of wellbeing of refugees in Johannesburg and how does it compare to that of South Africans residing in the same city?

GUPTA, R. Public and Private Health Expenditures in an Endogenous Growth Model with Inflation Targeting

GURE, P.D. Does Terrorism Have Economic Roots?

HART, J. Frank Knight and spontaneous order in a decentralized economy

HODGE, D. Growth, Employment and Unemployment in South Africa

HOLMAN, G. The corporate use of derivatives: a survey of South Africa ’s top listed non-financial firms

HOSKING, S. Municipal water service tariff structures for South African Circumstances

HUMPHREYS, K. Applying Chickerings “Theory of Development”to Adolescents in order to understand the influence of HIV/AIDS on decision-making

ILORAH, R. Regional integration in Africa : The NEPAD perspective

JACOBS, E. How rigid is the agricultural wage structure?

JAFTA, R. & R. UCTU Exploring University Spinoffs in the South African context: entrepreneurial activity at Cape Town and Stellenbosch Universities

JANSEN, A. Explaining Maternal Mortality in the Cape Colony during the 18^th and 19^th  century

JANSEN VAN RENSBURG, A. The Export Promotion of South African Craft Products Industrial Policy

KABUNDI, A. The Effect of Monetary Policy on Real House Price Growth in South Africa : A Factor Augmented Vector Autoregression (Favar) Approach

KAHN, B. Monetary policy responses to Monetary policy responses to the crisis and implications for future monetary policy

KANTOR, B  Business Cycle An investigation of the global forces that drive the SA financial and currency market.

KEMEGUE, F. Pattern of Interdependence of FDI from a Same Source Country

KHUMALO, J. The impact of exchange rate volatility on trade: Evidence of RSA exports to the USA

KHUMALO, J. Budget Deficit, Money Growth and Inflation in South Africa

KLEYNHANS, E. A Shift-Share Analysis of Job Creation by the Platinum SDI during its first decade (1996-2006)

KODISANG, E. The Implication of Macroeconomics and Costing of Taxi Recapitalisation Programme (TRP) in Gauteng

KOHLER, M. Energy-based Poverty Indicators: Meeting AsgiSA Targets?

KOTZE, K. Should Central Banks of Small Open Economies Respond to Exchange Rate Fluctuations? The Case of South Africa

KRUGELL, W.  Does geography matter for South African manufacturers? Firm-level evidence from the National and World Bank Enterprise Surveys

KRUGEL, L. Estimating the size of quality change bias in the South African CPI

LE ROUX, P. & G. SHARP The impact of interest rates on real consumable output and investments: a capital-based approach.

LOTTERING, T. A Social CBA of Extending an Existing Recycling Plant to Accommodate the Recycling of the Plastic Fraction of Cable Scrap

LUMBY, A. The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: A Flawed Cost-Benefit Analysis?

LUMBY, A. John Maynard Keynes and the ‘Great Depression’ of 1929-1932: Lessons for the Current Global Economic Crisis?

MABEJANE, J. Budget Deficit, Long-term Interest Rates and Crowding out effect in South Africa

MAFEREKA, R., F. BOOYSEN & P. BURGER Consumption Smoothing, Saving and Liquidity Constraints

MAHLO, N. & T. HLEKISO An overview of the demand and supply of skills in the South African Labour Market

MAIA, C. Poverty and Inequality in Mozambique: An Analysis of a Household Survey

MARINKOV, M. & P. BURGER South African Inflation Performance since the Implementation of Inflation Targeting

MASENYETSE, R. Interest Rates Determination In Lesotho

MASHAU, Y. The impact of BITs on FDI flow from South Africa to the rest of Africa

MATEKANA, K. Centrifugal And Centripetal Forces in African Economic Integration – The SADC Experience.

MATJEKANA, K.  Aid or No Aid – Africa ’s Dilemma in the Current Global Economy

MATTHEE, M. Export specialisation and local economic growth

MAY, C. Exchange rate volatility in the post-1994 period: A study of the South African rand

MBONIGABA, J. The Impact of Time Cost on Demand for Health Care and on Health Status of the Poor: A Case of Refugee Households in Durban , South Africa

MEARS, R. The Ora as facilitator of sustainable local economic development in Orania

MENSAH, S. Migration, Globalization and Economic Performance in SADC: The Case of Dwindling Opportunities for External Migration from Lesotho

MLAMBO, C. International economic integration and financial contagion vulnerability: the case of South Africa

MOHOLWA, B. The Impact of Rand/US Dollar Exchange Rate Volatility on the Performance of Futures Markets for Agricultural Commodities

MOKHTARUL WADUD, I.K.M. Stochastic Frontier Estimations of Technical Progress and Efficiency in Malaysian Manufacturing: A Study of Disaggregated Panel Data

MOKOENA, T. Exchange rate puzzles: A review of the recent theoretical and empirical developments

MOKOENA, J. Weighted monetary Aggregates for South Africa: Are they useful?

MOORE, B.  The Current World Depression: A One-In-A Generation Opportunity!

MORRIS, Q. Assessing JSE return efficiency using Markov Switching and AR-FIMA models

MOSTERT, J. Economic Development in the Northern Cape and the new economic geography

MOSTERT, J. The evaluation of the economic impact of the Kimberley Diamond Academy using a CGE approach.

MPHUKA, C. Trends in Poverty and Inequality in Zambia: 1999–2004

MULLER, C. The incidence, nature and consequences of involuntary and voluntary part-time employment in post-apartheid South Africa

MULLER, M. Developing and Applying a CI Model to Increase Extruder Exports to Other Southern African Countries

MUNYAMA, V. The Dynamics of Goods and Services Inflation in South Africa: A VECM Approach

MUNYAMA V. Measuring Core Inflation for South Africa: A Trimmed Means Approach

NARAIDOO,  R. Parametric, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Forecasting Performance of Monetary Policy Rules in South Africa

NEL, W. An Energy Thesis of Economic Growth

NESENGANI, N. A historical perspective on fiscal and monetary policy progression in South Africa

NIEUWOUDT, L. Shifting Trends in Higher Education Financing

NTEGE, S.S. Wage Dynamics and Inter-Sectoral Mobility in Transitional South Africa: Comparative Advantage, Learning or Statistical Discrimination?

OCRAN, M. Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices: The Case of South Africa

ODULARU, G. An Emprical Analysis of South African – U.S. Trade Relations in the Industrial Sector

OWOEYE, T. Allocation of Talent and Economic Growth in Nigeria

PEROLD, M. A CGE Simulation of a Flat Tax as a Possibility for Tax Reform: A South African Case Study

PEROLD, M. The History of Taxation in South Africa 1904-2008

POOL, A.  Remittance Behaviour of Core and Dynasty Households: Evidence from Kwazulu-Natal

PHANGA PHANGA, M. Impacts of Remittances on Poverty and Income Inequality: Evidence from South Africa

PRETORIUS, A. Exchange rate volatility and unemployment in emerging market countries

POSEL, D. Sex ratios and racial differences in marriage rates in South Africa

PULUMO, S. The SACU Region Export-Led Growth and the recession in G7 Economies: Causality Testing

RANCHHOD, V. The effects of adolescent fertility on educational attainment in Cape Town: A propensity score approach.

RANGASAMY, L. The impact of global influences on inflation in South Africa

RANKIN, N. Exporting, labour demand and wages in South Africa

RAPUTSOANE, L. The distribution of exchange rate volatility of the South African currency

REID, M. Loud and clear? Can we hear when the SARB’s speaks?

RHODES, J. Japan’s Liquidity Sump: A New Interpretation of the Great Stagnation

RHODES, J. Devolution of the Fisher Equation: Rational Appreciation to Money Illusion

ROBERTS, T. Farm wages and working conditions in the Albany district 1957 - 2008

ROGAN, M. Has there been a feminisation of poverty in South Africa? A gendered study of poverty in the post-apartheid period, 1997 –2006

ROSS, D. & A. HOFMEYR. The relationship between smoking and reward bundling in a group of South African university students

ROSSOUW, J. Institutional development of the SA Reserve Bank since 1921

ROUSSOUW, J. Poverty Revisited

ROSSOUW, R. & W. VIVIERS  Export Market Selection Methods and The Identification of Realistic Export Opportunities for South Africa using a Decision Support Model

ROZYN, S. Understanding the determinants of cash holdings of Corporate South Africa and the  implications for Monetary Policy

SAAYMAN, A. Investigating real interest parity using Wavelet analysis

SCHÖER, V. Firm Dynamics and Job Matching in South Africa

SEBASTIAO, C. New Matric Maths versus Old: Outcomes for Economics 1 Performance

SHEPHERD, D. A question of efficiency: Decomposing South African reading test scores using PIRLS 2006

SIEBRITS, K. AND SIEBRITS, J. An institutional history of the legal liability of professional auditors

SIKHITHA, K. Pricing the priceless: applying spatial hedonic techniques to value open space in South Africa

SIMSON, R. Testing the Folk Theorem in a Classroom Situation

SITHOLE, N. The export potential of South African edible nuts: The special case of macadamia nuts

SNOWBALL, J. Student valuation of campus built heritage: Rhodes University, South Africa and St. Mary’s College of Maryland, United States

SOLOMON, H. Accounting for the Size of the Informal Sector in Nigeria

STANLEY , D. The Efficient Market Hypothesis: The Applicability of American Models to the South African Stock Market

STEINBACH, R. Sudden Stops and Current Account Reversals: Policy Responses For South Africa

TAMBUDZAI, Z. What underlying factors drive Zimbabwe ’s military expenditure and what are the domestic security insinuations?

TAYLOR, S. How well does grade 8 performance predict matric performance? Implications for social mobility.

THERON, N. The effects-based approach to abuse of dominance competition enquiries: a South African perspective

UWILINGIYE, J. Some Benefits of Reducing Inflation in South Africa

VAN DER BERG, S. & E. MOSES The limits to budgetary redistribution in South Africa: Evidence from a fiscal incidence study

VAN HEERDEN, C. The Credibility of the Expected Inflation Figures

VAN DER MERWE, A. Does Human Capital Theory Explain the Value Of Higher Education? A South African Case Study

VAN DER STOEP, G. Childbearing and labour force participation in South Africa : sibling composition as an identification strategy?

VAN SCHOOR, M. Social Networks and Job Matching in an Artificial Economy with Endogenous Network Formation

VERHOEF, G. The Year the Century Ended: The Genesis of the Transvaal Society of Accountants

VERMAAK, C. Decomposition analysis of changes in low-earning work in South Africa , 2000 – 2006

VISSER, M. An empirical investigation of risky sexual behaviour amongst young adults in Cape Town

VIVIAN, R. The collapse of the Northern Rock - evidence of a money-banking failure

WINDVOGEL, D. South African Unemployment: Time to Think outside of the Box

YASMEEN, W. Dynamic Comparative Advantage and Country Characteristics as Basis for Trade in Textiles and Clothing

YU, D.  The comparability of Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS)