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DOWNLOADS - CONFERENCE 2005
List of papers delivered at the 2005 Conference.
| Author | Title | Paper |
| Abor & Biekpe (SUN) | Corporate debt policy of small and medium enterprises in Ghana | |
| Abor & Biekpe (SUN) | Does corporate governance affect the capital structure decisions of SMEs? | |
| Acres (SARB) | The share price as an indicator of bank fragility – an empirical analysis | Paper not submitted |
| Adjasi & Biekpe (SUN) | Stock market development and economic growth: the case of selected African countries | Paper not submitted |
| Akpan (Rhodes) | The challenges of mitigating information asymmetries in the microcredit sector | |
| Allan, Schoombee & Theron (SUN) | Financing economic development at the local level: an analysis of the appropriateness of a municipal bond market in SA | |
| Antrobus & Law (Rhodes) | Towards an economic valuation of biodiversity: freshwater | |
| Aziakpono (UFS) | Financial development and economic growth in a small and open African economy: Evidence from Lesotho | |
| Baur (UJ) | Constructing a behavioural model to explain the motion of foreign direct investment into emerging economies | Paper not submitted |
| Bekker (UNISA) | The strategic use of anti-dumping | |
| Ben-Israel (EON Solutions) | Energy use and GDP growth: a comparative analysis between G8 and SADC countries | Paper not submitted |
| Biyase & Bromberger (UJ, UKZN) | Public works puzzles in South Africa | |
| Biyase (UJ) | A simple analysis of the impact of the child support grant on the fertility rate in SA | |
| Blaauw (UJ) | The dynamics of the informal sector in South Africa – a case study of day labourers in Pretoria | |
| Blignaut (SARB) & Rangasamy | The exposure of the South African economy to international trade | |
| Bojetic (WB) & Fedderke (UCT) | Is South Africa underinvesting in infrastructure? | |
| Bonga-Bonga (UJ) | Asset price and monetary policy in SA. The structural vector auto regression application | |
| Booysen & Ackron (UFS) | The impact of anti-retroviral treatment on quality of life of patients in the Free State province | Paper not submitted |
| Booysen, van der Berg, Burger, Von Maltitz and Du Rand (UFS & SUN) | Trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries | |
| Boshoff (SUN) | The statistical properties of financial variables in South Africa over the business cycle | |
| Botha, Greyling & Marais (UJ) | The evolution of business cycles since 1960 | |
| Braimoh (UKZN) | Economic impact of malaria in Nigeria | |
| Breitenbach & Aderbigbe (UP) | The ICT sector and economic growth in SA. Analysis of evidence | |
| Brooke (UCT) | Analysts’ forecasts as rational expectations of company earnings | Paper not submitted |
| Browne (UKZN) | The cost of treatment for HIV/AIDS infected adults: a study of public sector provision in South Africa | |
| Bullard (FedRes.St Louis) & Schaling (UJ/CentER) | Monetary policy, Determinancy, Loanability and the open economy | Paper not submitted |
| Burger & Jafta (SUN) | Returns to race: labour market discrimination in post-apartheid South Africa | Paper not submitted |
| Burger & Marinkov (UFS) | The South African Phillips curve: a triangular puzzle? | |
| Burger (SUN) | Exploring the motivations of NGOs in Uganda | |
| Burger (SUN) | How pro-poor is health spending in South Africa? | |
| Case (Princeton) & Ardington (UCT) | The impact of parental death on school enrolment and achievement: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa | Paper not submitted |
| Charles, Adjasi & Biekpe (SUN) | The response of African stock market returns to inflation movement | Paper not submitted |
| Chasomeris (UKZN) | South Africa’s port performance | |
| Chasomeris (UKZN) | South Africa’s maritime policy and transformation of the shipping industry | |
| Chetty (UJ) | Ethnical issues and their implications for economic | Paper not submitted |
| Coetzee (UFS) | Banking the unbanked in SA: the practical implications on branch banking | |
| Coetzee (UKZN) | The structure and performance of the Pietermaritzburg economy, January 2003 – December 2004 | Paper not submitted |
| Cohen (UCT) | The valuation of corporate intangible assets and hedonic pricing models | Paper not submitted |
| Cumming & Nel (Rhodes) | The impact of risk-weighted capital adequacy requirements on South African bank behaviour | Paper not submitted |
| Curtis (DIPA) | Investment promotion in Durban | Paper not submitted |
| Dalton & Greyling (Tswana/UJ) | The challenge to alleviate poverty of African countries: a case study of the !Khun and Kwe in SA | Paper not submitted |
| Dalton & Roodt (Efficient Group/Tswana) | An investigation into the effectiveness and possible unintended consequences of the Child Support Grant | Paper not submitted |
| De Angelis, Aziakpono and Faure (Rhodes) | The transmission of monetary policy under the repo system in South Africa: An empirical analysis | |
| de Beer & Keyser (UFS) | Banking the unbanked: regulatory and supervisory challenges in the South African context | Paper not submitted |
| de Villiers & Nieuwoudt (SUN) | Shifting trends in higher education funding | |
| de Villiers (SUN) | The changing face of higher education finance, with special emphasis on South Africa | |
| Demertzis(De Nederlandsche Bank) & Viegi (UKZN) | Inflation targets as focal points | Paper not submitted |
| Dias (UKZN) | Who are the unemployed in SA and why are they unemployed? Insights from national household survey data | |
| Dladla (UJ) | A Theoretical exploration of the economics of corruption: Mpumulanga as a case study | |
| du Plessis (SUN) | Business cycles in emerging market economics: a new view of the stylised facts | |
| du Plessis (SUN) | Paper pirates: gauging the incidence of plagiarism in academic economics | Paper not submitted |
| du Toit, van Eyden & Ground (UP) | Technical progress for South Africa under alternative production structures | Paper not submitted |
| Dunne (U. W. England) & Edkins (UKZN) | The demand for food in SA | |
| Durodola, Shikwambana and Takaendesa (Rhodes) | Forecasting South Africa’s inflation using ARIMA models | Paper not submitted |
| Duvenage & Moolman (Standard Bank) | Nepad: capital accumulation versus productivity | Paper not submitted |
| Edwards & Alves (UCT) | South Africa’s export performance: determinants of export supply | Paper not submitted |
| Erero & van Heerden (UP) | The influence of freight rates on the South African economy | |
| Fairburn (UKZN) | Vertical and horizontal price fixing | Paper not submitted |
| Fitschen (UCT) | The structure of growth in the Western Cape manufacturing sector | |
| Fohtung | Institutions, social and human capital development in sub-Saharan economic growth | Paper not submitted |
| Fourie & Coetzee (SUN) | Building hope: infrastructure investment and its role in Africa as a NEPAD priority | Paper not submitted |
| Gebreselasie, Akanbi, Sichei (UP.) | Estimating an econometric model of the Rand-US dollar nominal exchange rate | |
| Geldenhuys & Marinkov (UFS) | Factors affecting growth in Africa: a reassessment of the “usual suspects” | Paper not submitted |
| Hansohm (NEPRU) | Labour market policy and employment creation in Namibia | Paper not submitted |
| Hansohm (NEPRU) | Monitoring regional integration in Southern Africa | |
| Harmse (UP) | Policy dimensions of intra-Africa intermediation: overcoming technology, investment and trade constraints | Paper not submitted |
| Harris&Naidu (UKZN) | The cost of HIV/AIDS to households in Soweto | Paper not submitted |
| Hart (UKZN) | Frank Knight and positivism | |
| Hendriks, Kirsten & Vink (SUN) | The effect of institutions and policies on food security and rural development in SA | Paper not submitted |
| Hess (IMANI) | Locational distribution patterns: A comparative analysis | |
| Hodge (UNISA) | Inflation and Growth in South Africa | |
| Holden & McMillan (UKZN) | Do free trade agreements stimulate trade? A case study of the South African free trade agreement with the European Union | |
| ILorah (UL) | The economic blunders of ethnic favouritism in Africa | Paper not submitted |
| Jacobs (NWU) | Benchmarking economic teaching at South African universities | |
| Jafta (SUN) | The sub-Saharan African textile industry post- ATC: early indications and some speculations | |
| Janse van Rensburg & Pool (UFS) | Minimum wages for domestic workers: compliance and impact | |
| Jansen & Schulz (SUN) | Water demand and the urban poor: A study on the conditions of water consumption on the Cape Flats | |
| Jordaan, Sutherland & Valadkhani (UP/U. Wollongong) | A stochastic frontier approach to sectoral efficiency in South African manufacturing | Paper not submitted |
| Kabundi (UJ) & Loots (UFS) | Dancing with neighbours: comovement between SA and SADC* | |
| Kandiero (Treasury) | The impact of transport costs on trade in SACU | Paper not submitted |
| Keswell (UCT) | Social networks, extended families and consumption smoothing: Field evidence from SA | Paper not submitted |
| Kibambe & Koch (UP) | Improving policy implementation by the use of ‘efficiency models’: an application of DEA on public hospitals | |
| Kleynhans (UNW) | The role of human capital in the competitive platform on South African industries | |
| Knedlik (IWIM/Bremen) | Estimating monetary policy rules for South Africa | |
| Koch & Ntege (UP) | HIV/AIDs and labour regulation: The impact of information asymmetries on labour market outcomes | Paper not submitted |
| Kohler (UKZN) | The Economic Linkages between South African Trade Policy and Water Resource Management | Paper not submitted |
| Koller (UFS) | Hysteresis and unemployment in South Africa | |
| Kotze (SUN) | Forecasting inflation with high-frequency asset price data | |
| Krugell, Koekemoer & Allison (NWU) | Convergence or divergence of South African cities and towns? Evidence from Kernel Density estimates | |
| Kyereboah-Coleman & Biekpe (SUN) | Do boards & CEOs matter for bank performance? A comparative analysis of banks in Ghana | Paper not submitted |
| Kyereboah-Coleman and Biekpe (USB) | The relationship between board size, composition, CEO duality and frim performance:Experieince from Ghana | |
| Lam (Michigan), Leibbrandt & Mlatsheni (UCT) | The impact of high levels of youth unemployment on transitions from school to work in SA: evidence from a panel study of youth in Cape Town | |
| Lekganyane-Maleka (UJ) | The impact of HIV/AIDS on the public sector in Southern Africa | |
| Louw & V d Berg (SUN) | Education & intergenerational social mobility in South Africa: A cohort analysis | |
| Ludi, Chen, Joubert & Ground (UP) | Investigating the credit channel in SA: a VAR approach | |
| Luus (NWUt) | Economic specialization and diversity of South Africa’s cities | |
| Mabuza & du Plessis (Comp Comm) | Trade and competition policy in Africa | |
| Mahadea & Mkocha (UKZN) | Determinants of small-scale manufacturing enterprise performance in Tanzania | |
| Masia (UJ) | Currency value effects on the SA economy and the estimation of its underlying equilibrium level. | |
| Matasaseng (SUN) | Price flexibility in the rand monetary area | |
| Matete (Lesotho) | Economic analysis of maize production in the Maseru district, Lesotho | |
| Matjekana (UL) | Regional economic integration in Africa: the challenges and prospects | Paper not submitted |
| Matthee, Naude and Viviers (NWU) | Challenges for developing country suppliers in global floriculture chains: a South African perspective | |
| Mbatha (Rhodes) | Considerations for developing exclusion guidelines for the exclusion in economic valuation methods | |
| Mbonigaba & Holden (UKZN) | Nominal and real effective exchanges rates for SADC countries: implications for the expansion of the common monetary area | Paper not submitted |
| Mears (UJ) | The management and control of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development | Paper not submitted |
| Mears (UJ) | Using local independent currencies in informal settlements to unlock human potential | Paper not submitted |
| Meyn (IWIM/Bremen) | The challenges of economic partnership agreements for regional integration and trade capacity building in Southern Africa | |
| Mohamed (UWC) | The inapplicability of the Ramsey Rule and Ricardian | Paper not submitted |
| Mollentze (SARB) | The macroeconomic impact of e-money in South Africa | |
| Morekwa & Niek (UP) | Empirical analysis of progressivity of the tax system in South Africa | |
| Muller (UKZN) | Involuntary underemployment in South Africa: evidence from national household surveys, 1995 – 2003 | |
| Munene (Rhodes) | Financial sector reforms and bank interest rate spread in Kenya | Paper not submitted |
| Mutambara (Rhodes) | An evaluation of opportunities and potential within the manufacturing sector in the SADC region | |
| Ndhlovu (Manchester Metro.) | Towards a political economy interpretation of globalisation: the case of South Africa | Paper not submitted |
| Nel & Mbeleki (SARB) | Asset prices and monetary policy- The impact of a housing market bubble | |
| Nhabinde & Schoeman (UP) | Taxes on retirement funds, consumption and saving in South Africa | |
| Nieftagodien (SUN) | Exploring consumption patterns and living standards of black households in SA | |
| Nieuwoudt (SUN) | Do good matriculation results relate to above average performance for first year commerce students? | |
| Obinyeluaku & Viegi (UKZN) | Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interdependence in southern Africa | |
| Parr (Comp Comm) | Import parity pricing in South Africa: competitive constraint or source of market power? | |
| Pawley & van Zyl (UFS) | Resampled mean variance optimisation and the dynamic nature of markets | |
| Pool (UFS) | Motivations for and consequences of internal migration in SA: a literature review | |
| Posel & Casale (UKZN) | Who replies in brackets and what are the implications for measuring income? An analysis of earnings data in South Africa | |
| Potgieter, Munthali & Shelile (Rhodes) | The effect of interest rates volatility on bond market rates in South Africa | Paper not submitted |
| Pretorius & Blaauw (UNISA/UJ) | Local economic development agencies in SA – six years later | |
| Radikeledi (UJ) | An analysis of the South African government low-cost housing provision strategy | |
| Reynolds (Rhodes) | The economic growth potential of small towns in the Eastern Cape | Paper not submitted |
| Roodt & Dalton (Tswana/Efficient Group) | The impact of grants on the fiscus & other macro economic aggregates | Paper not submitted |
| Roussouw (SARB) | The contribution of macro-economic convergence in SADC to Africa’s long-term economic development | |
| Rozyn (Midrand) | Inflation and the implication for the corporate user cost of capital in SA | Paper not submitted |
| Rozyn (Midrand) | An econometric study on the similarity of factors that contribute to the ability of first-year economics … to pass and the consequences.. | Paper not submitted |
| Saayman & Styger (UNW) | The South African rand – nothing to FEER? | Paper not submitted |
| Schoeman (UJ) | High levels of unemployment: A long run reality for SA | |
| Schoeman (UP) | Rethinking fiscal decentralisation in SA | |
| Shezi & Dias (UKZN) | The Africanisation of South African university economics departments | Paper not submitted |
| Sichei, Erero & Gebreselassi (UP) | An augmented gravity model of South Africa’s exports of transport equipments and machineries | |
| Simson (UKZN) | A survey of monetary policy in Africa | Paper not submitted |
| Singh (City Jbg) | From ‘government’ to ‘governance’ in Africa: implications for local government in SA | |
| Snowball (Rhodes) & Willis (Rhodes) | Economic development and cultural expression: A choice experiment at the South African National Arts Festival | |
| Snowball (Rhodes) & Wilson (Rhodes) | What matters in economics teaching and learning? A case study of an introductory macroeconomics course | |
| Spurrett , McCoy, Ross and Murrell (UKZN, UCT) | Preference cyclicity and money pumping in a virtual economy | |
| Strydom | The international adjustment mechanism under restraint | |
| Stuart (Fort Hare) | Forward exchange rate determination: a theoretical revision | Paper not submitted |
| Swanepoel (SUN) | Poverty and poverty dynamics in rural Ethopia | |
| Takaendesa, Tsheole & Aziakpono (Rhodes) | Real exchange rate volatility and its effect on trade flows: new evidence from SA | |
| Tambudzai (UKZN) | Determinants of Zimbabwe’s military expenditure (1980-2003) | |
| Tang (UKZN) | The natural resource curse unshackled: Illustration of Botswana | Paper not submitted |
| Tau (SUN) | Inherent requirements of the job and its implications on gender representivity within the military | |
| Tennassie (UKZN) | The food insecurity conundrum in Ethopia | Paper not submitted |
| Tewari (UKZN) | Is the South African economy competitive enough to generate growth? | Paper not submitted |
| Theron (SUN) | The micro-economic implications of the macro-economic role of telecommunications – the case of SA | |
| Thurlow (IFPRI) | Trade liberalisation and poverty in South Africa during the 1990s | Paper not submitted |
| Turner (Rhodes) | Evaluation of the actuaries capitalisation rate for damages from an economic perspective | |
| Ueckermann (Comp Comm) | Poverty reduction in Lesotho | |
| V d Westhuizen (NWU) | Relative efficiency of South African banks | Paper not submitted |
| van der Berg (SUN) | Social spending incidence in South Africa | Paper not submitted |
| van der Merwe (UFS) | Over the counter derivative markets and systemic risk | Paper not submitted |
| van der Merwe (UJ) | Deregulation in the South African banking industry | Paper not submitted |
| van Heerden, Blignaut & Jordaan (UP) | On the inflationary effects of higher electricity prices in SA | |
| van Niekerk (UFS) | Is the role of governments in the new global economy under challenge? A theoretical perspective | |
| van Schalkwyk & Hattingh (UJ) | Efficient asset allocation for individual investors: Is SA different? | |
| van Zyl & Goldstuck (UJ) | The South African electricity industry: the rationale for reform and exposing some myths | |
| Vermaak (UKZN) | Trends in income distribution, inequality and poverty in SA, 1995 to 2003. | |
| von Maltitz (UFS) | Welfare, health and social capital in KwaZulu-Natal | Paper not submitted |
| Webb (Rhodes) | Demand, Consumption and Fashion: An Institutional Approach | Paper not submitted |
| Wentzel (UJ) | What are economic problems that we may solve them? | |
| Wittenburg (UCT) | The school day in South Africa | |
| Woolard & Leibbrandt (UCT) | Income mobility among African households in KwaZulu-Natal, 1993 – 2004: evidence from the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study | Paper not submitted |
| Worku (StatsSA) | Polygamy, traditional marriage, unmarried cohabitation and the emergence of legal monogamy | Paper not submitted |
| Yao & Yao (Laboratoire de Recherche) | The solvency of African non life-insurances: A cross sectional approach | Paper not submitted |
| Yao & Yao (Laboratorie de Recherche) | On the determinants of African banks’ profitability: a panel data analysis | Paper not submitted |
| Ziyane (UJ) | The linkage between FDI and economic growth: A comparative case study of South Africa and Kenya | Paper not submitted |
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