Wednesday | 08:00 - 09:00
EBW Building
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Registration
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Wednesday | 09:00 - 09:15
EBW Auditorium
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Welcoming
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Wednesday | 09:15 - 10:15
EBW Auditorium
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Plenary session - S vd Berg: Education, poverty and affluence – a South African perspective
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Wednesday | 10:15 - 10:45
EBW Building
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Tea/Coffee
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Wednesday | 10:45 - 11:45 | Parallel Sessions A |
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Session A1
History of economic thought
EBW1
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Peet Strydom, Income distribution, employment and economic growth: A neo-Ricardian View
John Hart, Hutchison and the possibility of a positive economics
Stan du Plessis, Reinterpreting a famous paper in monetary economics
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Session A2
Monetary policy
EBW2
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Hylton Hollander, The influence of financial factors on credit spread variability in U.S. business cycles: a New-Keynesian perspective
Mark Ellyne and Michael Daly, Zimbabwe Monetary Policy 1998-2012: From Hyperinflation to Dollarization
Alain Kabundi, Important Channels of Transmission Monetary Policy Shock in South Africa
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Session A3
House prices
EBW3
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Theunis Vogel, The economic variables that influence the property market in South Africa: The residential developer’s perspective
Mehmet Balcilar, Sonali Das, Rangan Gupta, Stephen Miller and Wendy Nyakabawo, The Causality between House Prices and Output in the U.S: A bootstrap rolling window approach
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Session A4
Household studies
EBW4
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Mduduzi Biyase, Do South African households use remittances to smooth consumption? Evidence from the first two waves of the NIDS datasets
Dori Posel and Daniela Casale, Differences in subjective well-being within households: An analysis of married and cohabiting couples in South Africa
Jean-pierre Geldenhuys, The Disability Grant, private transfers and household welfare in a panel of Free State households
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Session A5
Environmental economics
EBW5
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Reyno Seymore, Roula Inglesi-lotz and James Blignaut, A greenhouse gas emissions inventory for South Africa: A comparative analysis
Waldo Krugell and Melville Saayman, Willingness to pay for a green event – evidence from the Wacky Wine Festival
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Session A6
DSGE and monetary economics
EBW6
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Y. Modeste Somé, A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of the Term Structure
Rudi Steinbach, Optimal monetary policy in reaction to rising credit spreads: The case of South Africa
Vincent Dadam and Nicola Viegi, Monetary Policy in an Economy with High Unemployment
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Session A7
Labour economics
EBW7
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Gerhardus van Zyl, The relative labour productivity contribution of different age-skill categories in the workplace
Meghan Millea and Jon Rezek, Examining Pay Differentials
Volker Schoer, Wage effects of social contact involvement at different stages of the job matching process.
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Wednesday | 11:50 - 12:50 | Parallel Sessions B |
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Session B1
Intra-household decision making
EBW1
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Frikkie Booysen, Sevias Guvuriro, Calvin Mudzingiri and Celeste Campher, The Who’s Who of Intra-Household Decision-Making in South African Households
Frikkie Booysen and Sevias Guvuriro, The Long and Winding Road: The State of Field Experiments on Intra-Household Decision-Making
Friedrich Kreuser, Do Family Bonds Bind? Testing the Unitary and Collective Models of Household Behaviour on South African Data
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Session B2
Monetary economics
EBW2
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Max Gillman and Ruthira Naraidoo, Banking and Aggregate Risk in General Equilibrium
Haakon Kavli, Nicola Viegi and Shakill Hassan, Modelling the role of financial intermediaries in monetary policy and cross-border capital flows
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Session B3
Economics, art and entertainment
EBW3
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Peter Baur, Economics And The Fine Art Environment
Alan Collins and Jen Snowball, Transformation, job creation and subsidies to creative industries:
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Session B4
Economics and education
EBW4
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Tsangyao Chang, Roula Inglesi-lotz and Rangan Gupta, Research output versus economic growth nexus in the BRICS countries: panel data analysis
Johan Coetzee and Jesse de Beer, Financial literacy amongst students in South Africa
Pierre de Villiers and Chris van Wyk, A longitudinal cohort analysis of Higher Education in South Africa
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Session B5
Environmental economics
EBW5
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Dambala Gelo Kutela and Steve Koch, Welfare and Common Property Right Forestry:Evidence from Ethiopian Villages
Dambala Gelo Kutela, Steve Koch and Edwin Muchapondwa, Common Property Right Forestry and the Welfare Distribution: Evidence from Ethiopian Villages
Johane Dikgang, The economic valuation of dryland ecosystem services in the South African Kgalagadi area and implications for PES involving the Khomani San
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Session B6
Taxation
EBW6
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Corne van Walbeek, Using government revenue data to determine changes in illicit trade in cigarettes in South Africa
Yolande Jordaan and Niek Schoeman, An empirical dissemination of the Personal Income Tax regime in South Africa using a micro-simulation tax model
Willem Boonzaaier, Using modern portfolio theory to derive an efficient frontier of the South African tax product mix
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Session B7
The NDP
EBW7
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Andrew Kerr, Martin Wittenberg and Jairo Arrow, Job Creation and Destruction in South Africa
Frederick Fourie, The NDP and Unemployment: On Consistency, Coherence and Comprehensiveness
Ayanda Hlatshwayo, Where have all the small firm jobs gone
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Wednesday | 12:50 - 14:00
EBW Building
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Lunch
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Wednesday | 14:00 - 15:20 | Parallel Sessions C |
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Session C1
Household studies
EBW1
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Grieve Chelwa, The crowding-out effect of tobacco consumption in Zambia: Evidence from the Living Conditions Monitoring Survey
Nicole Vellios, The determinants of smoking initiation in South Africa
Joseph Oscar Akotey and Charles Adjasi, Microfinance Services and Household Welfare: Evidence from Ghana and South Africa
Steven Gordon, Benjamin Roberts and Jarè Struwig, Measuring Financial Literacy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Quantitative Examination of a Multi-Dimensional Concept
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Session C2
Monetary economics and interest rates
EBW2
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Rudi Steinbach, A structural decomposition of the South African yield curve
Marina Marinkov, Shaista Amod and Michael Kock, The Yield Curve and Macroeconomic Dynamics in South Africa: A Latent Factor Approach
Dawid Johannes van Lill, The Decoupling Principle
Meshach Aziakpono and Deodat Adenutsi, Inflation Targeting Monetary Policy Framework, Volatility and Interest Rate Pass-Through: International Evidence
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Session C3
Financial economics
EBW3
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Francois van Dyk and Gary van Vuuren, Hedge fund performance evaluation using the Sharpe and Omega ratios
Manoel Bittencourt, Rangan Gupta and Lardo Stander, Tax evasion, financial development and inflation: theory and empirical evidence
Christine Mitter, Andrea Weidinger and Johan Coetzee, The management of distressed loans: evidence from Austrian banks
Nyankomo Marwa and Meshach Aziakpono, Technical and Scale Efficiency in Savings and Credit Cooperatives: Evidence from Tanzania
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Session C4
Shipping and transport
EBW4
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Jack Alban Dyer, Creating the Ultimate Instrument for Customs Modernisation in the 21st Century
Sanele Gumede and Mihalis Chasomeris, Assessing Stakeholders Perspectives on Maritime Port Pricing in South Africa
Sophia du Plessis, Ada Jansen and Krige Siebrits, Money well spent? Assessing the effectiveness of expenditure on road accident prevention programmes in South Africa
Jack Alban Dyer, The Global Future of Shipping
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Session C5
The environment and economic development
EBW5
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Moses Herbert Lubinga, The impact of climate change on Uganda’s international trade flows: Evidence from weather anomalies
Alan Collins, Gavin Fraser and Jen Snowball, Could a Regulated Market Approach for Rhinoceros Horns Work in South Africa? Some Practical Issues and Concerns
Nicholas Kilimani, Water Resource Accounts for Uganda
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Session C6
Poverty
EBW6
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Mokgadi Maleka, The Measurement of poverty and income inequality in the poor areas of Soweto
Dorrit Posel and Michael Rogan, Measured as poor versus feeling poor: Comparing objective and subjective poverty rates in South Africa
Ling Ting, Savings and Poverty: Is there really a link?
Ferdi Botha, Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the best African society of them all?
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Session C7
Economic modeling
EBW7
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Michael Johan von Maltitz, Extending the Reach of Sequential Regression Multiple Imputation
Heinrich Bohlmann and Martin Breitenbach, The South African Economy from 2006-2020: Developing a Baseline for the UPGEM CGE Model
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Wednesday | 15:30 - 16:50 | Parallel Sessions D |
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Session D1
Financial economics
EBW1
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Mamello Nchake, The impact of monetary agreements on product market integration: the case of the Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa
Marinda Pretorius and Ilse Botha, Determinants of sovereign credit ratings in Africa
Thandolwamahlase Sibisi, The Uncovered Interest Parity hypothesis, risk aversion and nonlinearity: Testing the hypothesis in an emerging economy
Anmar Pretorius and Alain Kabundi, South Africa’s stock market integration with developed and emerging markets
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Session D2
Labour market segmentation
EBW2
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Rashaad Amra, Ayanda Hlatswayo and Landon Mc Millan, SMME Employment in South Africa
Frederick Fourie and Philippe Burger, Can current macroeconomic models explain South African unemployment? Employment dynamics in a multiple-segment macro model
Nwabisa Makaluza, Double-edged sword: Segmentation within the South African informal sector
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Session D3
Financial institutions and banking
EBW3
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Malan Rietveld, An institutional analysis of sovereign wealth funds
Greg Farrell, Countercyclical capital buffers and real-time credit-to-GDP gap estimates: A South African perspective
Ivan van der Merwe, A macroprudential policy framework for South Africa: What challenges lie ahead?
Jaco Mostert, A critical evaluation of the Basel III revised proposal on the Liquidity coverage ratio
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Session D4
Trade, the BoP and economic decoupling
EBW4
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Carike Claassen, Elsabe Loots and Alain Kabundi, Decoupling between emerging and advanced economies: An exploratory analysis
Sibanisezwe Alwyn Khumalo, Syden Mishi and Duduzile Dlodlo, Influence of trade agreements on South Africa’s trade patterns
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Session D5
Labour economics
EBW5
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Claire Vermaak, Earnings mobility and employment dynamics during an economic recession
Abieyuwa Ohonba, Naiefa Rashied and Modeste Some, The impact of obesity on employment in South Africa
Kholekile Malindi, Wage effects of labour market experience and job tenure for black South African male workers
Maria Ngarachu, Neil Rankin, Gareth Roberts and Volker Schoer, Can an intervention aimed at improving economic inclusion make recipients less happy? Findings from a Randomized Control Trial of a targeted youth wage subsidy in South Africa.
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Session D6
Development economics
EBW6
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Clive Coetzee, Growth-Maximizing Allocation of Provincial Public Capital – a KwaZulu-Natal Case Study
Isaac Kanyama, Firm Growth and the Business Environment in SADC Countries
Jannie Rossouw, Melting the golden curtain: The funding of the Millenium Development Goals
Talita Greyling, Validation of a new instrument to measure quality of life: a confirmatory factor analysis approach
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Wednesday | 18:00 -
EBW Building
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Cocktails
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Thursday | 08:00 - 09:00
EBW Building
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Registration
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Thursday | 09:00 - 10:00 | Parallel Sessions E |
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Session E1
Health economics
EBW1
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Steven F. Koch and Jeffrey S. Racine, Healthcare Facility Choice and User Fee Abolition: Regression Discontinuity in a Multinomial Choice Settin
Shaista Amod, National Health Insurance: implications from a measurement perspective
Anja Smith and Ronelle Burger, Explaining the demand for medical scheme membership: implications for National Health Insurance (NHI)
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Session E2
Financial development and monetary policy
EBW2
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Jannie Rossouw, Adél Bosch and Vishnu Padayachee, A selected history of South African inflation perceptions: The question matters
L Mann and Gavin Keeton, The impact of financialisation on commodity prices in the post-2003 commodity “super-cycle”.
Lorraine Greyling and Grietjie Verhoef, Vector autoregression, cointegration and causality: testing for financial development and growth in the Cape Colony and Colony of Natal before 1909
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Session E3
Measuring the middle class
EBW3
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Justin Visagie, Race, gender and the development of the affluent middle class in post-apartheid South Africa
Ronelle Burger, Carmen McAvarey and Servaas van der Berg, The Capability Threshold: Re-Examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country
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Session E4
Economics and migration
EBW4
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Samuel Mensah, International Migration: The Theories and the Evidence from Lesotho
Antonie Pool, Migration, Remittances and Poverty in KwaZulu-Natal: A structural equation model approach
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Session E5
Capital flows
EBW5
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Richard Ilorah, Is Africa trapped between foreign aid dependency and failed growth initiatives?
Barend Christoffel de Beer and Logan Rangasamy, The South African experience with FDI flows
Logan Rangasamy, Capital flows: The South African experience
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Session E6
Poverty
EBW6
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Jacoba Viljoen and Rinie Schenck, Barriers that prevent street waste pickers from improving their socio-economic conditions
Nthabiseng Mohale and Ling Ting, Is Financial Inclusion Viable in South Africa?
Charles Adams, Rochelle Gallant, Ada Jansen and Derek Yu, A multidimensional analysis of non-income poverty in South Africa in 1993-2011
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Session E7
Bounded rationality, uncertainty and expectations
EBW7
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Alexander Zimper, Speculative trade with incorrect price inferences
Nicky Nicholls, Aylit Romm and Alexander Zimper, The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle
Martin Odendaal, Do stock market returns affect risk attitudes?
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Thursday | 10:00 - 10:30
EBW Building
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Tea/Coffee
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Thursday | 10:30 - 12:00
EBW Auditorium
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AGM and presidential address
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Thursday | 12:00 - 12:30
EBW Auditorium
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REDI3x3
(Research Project on Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth, funded by the National Treasury and based at SALDRU, UCT). Information session, presented by Murray Leibbrandt and Andrew Kerr, on research opportunities and, in particular, new and improved data sets being made available
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Thursday | 12:30 - 13:30
EBW Building
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Lunch
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Thursday | 13:30 - 14:50 | Parallel Sessions F |
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Session F1
Public economics
EBW1
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Michael Mbate, Domestic Debt and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Michael Sachs and Ian Stuart, Structural balances, fiscal rules and medium-term objectives
Olufemi Saibu, Fiscal Institutions and Oil Resource Management in Nigeria: The case of Sovereign Oil Wealth (SOW) Fund
Giovanni Ricco and Nicola Viegi, The Ages of South African Fiscal Policy - 1970-2012
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Session F2
Macroeconomics
EBW2
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Sandra Mollentze and Bonakele Hlongwane, A financial cycle for South Africa
Kirsten Thompson, Renee van Eyden and Rangan Gupta, Identifying a financial conditions index for South Africa
Johannes Hermanus Kemp, Constructing a finance-neutral output gap for South Africa
Frederick Lutz, Using Google Trends to Nowcast Consumer Confidence in South Africa
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Session F3
Economics and business
EBW3
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Ewert Kleynhans, A Microeconomic Analysis of the Level of Optimisation of the Capital and Labour Input Base of the South African Petroleum Industry
Asha Sundaram, Crime and Firm Dynamics: Evidence from South Africa
Ralitza Dobreva, The Impact of Acquisitions on Profitability: evidence from listed firms in South Africa
Geoffrey Scott Chapman, Economic impact of standards
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Session F4
Economics and education
EBW4
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Debra Shepherd, Distributive effects of curriculum coverage in South Africa: an unconditional quantile regression approach
Marinda Pretorius and Derick Blaauw, Happiness among first year students, does orientation programmes make a difference?
Ravinder Rena and Sophia Egelser, An evaluation of the effectiveness of training on entrepreneurship development in Windhoek
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Session F5
Energy economics
EBW5
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Requier Wait and Riaan Rossouw, The economic benefits of shale gas extraction in the southern Karoo, South Africa
Edward Blight and Peter Baur, Conflict of Energy in South Africa
Rashaad Amra, Back to the drawing board? : A critical evaluation of South Africa’s electricity tariff-setting methodology
Andrew Sylvester, Are the recent coal mergers partly to blame for soaring electricity prices?
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Session F6
Poverty
EBW6
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Ada Jansen, Mariana Moses, Stanford Mujuta and Derek Yu, Multifaceted poverty: Absolute, relative and subjective poverty in South Africa
Asmus Zoch, Life chances and class: Estimating inequality of opportunity in South Africa for various life stages
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Session F7
China, BRICS and the EU
EBW7
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Lumengo Bonga-bonga, Assessing the readiness of BRICS grouping for mutual beneficial financial integration
Lynsey Mugomba and Doreen Bekker, China, the future hegemon of the global economy?
Tobias Knedlik, The impact of preferences on early warning systems - The case of the European Commission’s Scoreboard
Lawrence Edwards and Rhys Jenkins, The margins of export competition: A new approach to evaluating the impact of China on South African exports to Sub-Saharan Africa?
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Thursday | 15:00 - 16:20 | Parallel Sessions G |
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Session G1
Forecasting
EBW1
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Estian Calitz, Krige Siebrits and Ian Stuart, Enhancing the credibility of fiscal forecasts in South Africa: Is a fiscal council the only way?
Goodness Aye, Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Anandamayee Majumdar, Forecasting Aggregate Retail Sales: The Case of South Africa
Estian Calitz, Krige Siebrits and Ian Stuart, The accuracy of fiscal forecasts in South Africa
Maggie Thobejane and Isaac Kanyama, Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables in South Africa: Parametric versus Non-parametric Methods
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Session G2
Inflation and monetary policy
EBW2
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Gideon du Rand and Stan du Plessis, An Agent Based Computational Model of Monetary Policy, Banking and Bank Regulation
Monique Reid and Stan du Plessis, See no inflation, hear no inflation: how the media influences inflation expectations in South Africa
Franz Ruch, Quantifying second round effects on inflation: a spillovers approach
Eliphas Ndou and Siobhan Redford, Relative price variability: Which components of the consumer price index contribute towards its variability?
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Session G3
SADC and Sub-Saharan Africa
EBW3
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Kwena Matjekana, Regional Economic Integration in Southern Africa - Dreams, Challenges and Realities
Carolyn Chisadza and Manoel Bittencourt, Modernisation hypothesis: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Neil Balchin, A Disaggregated Analysis of Product Price Integration in the Southern African Development Community
Rachel Chater and Mark Ellyne, Exchange Controls and SADC Regional Integration: Measuring SADC Restrictiveness
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Session G4
Economics and education
EBW4
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Sean Muller, A Critical Reassessment of South African Public Education Expenditure
Rulof Burger, Estimating the South African schooling-productivity profile: A production function approach
Martin Gustafsson and Stephen Taylor, Treating schools to a new administration: The impact of South Africa’s 2005 provincial boundary changes on school performance
Janeli Viljoen, Does falling behind lead to being left behind? – Evidence form the National School Effectiveness Study (2007-2009)
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Session G5
Trade
EBW5
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Emilie Kinfack, The border effect on intra African trade evidence from monopolistic competition model
Kwame Osei-assibey, A Revisit of the Diverse Empirical Findings on the Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade: Some Evidence from 3 Developing Economies
Prudence Madiba, Magda Kasyoka Wilson and Josine Uwilingiye, Current account balance and exchange rate dynamics in South Africa; an empirical investigation.
Dale Mudenda, Tariff Reform and Product Market Integration In Zambia: 1993 -2011
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Session G6
Labour economics
EBW6
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Wynnona Steyn and Yolande Jordaan, Comparing the employment and compensation of public and private sector employees
Ferdinand Niyimbanira and Waldo Krugell, More about the good Samaritans: Characteristics of volunteers in South Africa
Martin Abel, Rulof Burger and Patrizio Piraino, Productivity Signals in the Labour Market: Evidence from South Africa
Derick Blaauw and Ilse Botha, Location, location, location – does it matter for the subjective well-being of day labourers in South Africa’s provinces?
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Session G7
DSGE modeling
EBW7
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Charl Jooste and Ruthira Naraidoo, Frictions and perfect foresight in a fiscal DSGE model
Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Kevin Kotze, Forecasting South African macroeconomic data with a nonlinear DSGE model
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Thursday | 16:30 - 17:30
EBW1
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Academic Committee meeting
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Thursday | 19:00 -
Centenary Complex
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Gala dinner - Centenery Complex UFS
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Friday | 08:00 - 09:00
EBW Building
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Registration
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Friday | 09:00 - 10:20 | Parallel Sessions H |
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Session H1
Asset markets, exchange rates and monetary policy
EBW1
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Philippe Burger, Market Uncertainty and Inflation in South Africa
Catherine Macleod and Charl Jooste, Time-varying exchange rate pass through
Benjamin Willem Smit, Christelle Grobler and Catrijne Elizabeth Ijssel de Schepper, The macroeconomic effects of a sudden stop (slowdown) in South Africa's foreign capital inflows
Stan du Plessis and Monique Reid, The exchange rate dimension of inflation targeting: target levels and currency volatility
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Session H2
Financial economics
EBW2
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Joseph Pearson and Jaco du Toit, It is the weight that counts, silly!
Jesse de Beer, Consumer protection in the financial sector in South Africa: a review of recent developments
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Session H3
International economics
EBW3
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Martin Grancay, Observations on the historical usage of the term comparative advantage
Tasha Naughtin and Neil Rankin, Exporting, Importing and Productivity: An Investigation of the Dynamics of the Entry and Exit into the Export and Import Market
Francois Steenkamp, A product level decomposition of South Africa’s export growth
Arno van Niekerk, Africa, Globalisation and the role of Economic Governance: Pre and post the GFC
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Session H4
Economics and education
EBW4
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Marisa Coetzee, Measuring the effect of school choice on the performance of disadvantaged learners: The case of South Africa
Hendrik van Broekhuizen, Higher Education and Graduate Labour Market Status in South Africa
Marisa Coetzee and Stephen Taylor, Estimating the impact of a switch in the language of learning and teaching in South African primary schools
Stephen Taylor, The impact of study guides on matric performance: evidence from a randomised experiment
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Session H5
Macroeconomics
EBW5
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Trust Reason Mpofu, Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth in South Africa: The Case of Manufacturing
Corne van Walbeek and Evelyne Nyokangi, Macroeconomic data revisions: Nominal and real changes
Le Roux Burrows and Anthonie Botha, Explaining the changing input-output multipliers in South African: 1980-2010
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Session H6
Youth unempoyment
EBW6
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Gareth Roberts, The Dimensions of Youth Unemployment in South Africa
Neil Rankin, Wage subsidies and youth employment in South Africa. Evidence from a randomised control trial
Asmus Zoch, Understanding the underlying dynamics of the reservation wage for South African youth
Timothy Hinks and Volker Schoer, Predicted and Expected Earnings amongst the youth of South Africa: Are the young unemployed queuing for better paid jobs?
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Session H7
Intergovernmental relations
EBW7
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Eddie Rakabe, Planning and budgeting for outcomes in a decentralised fiscal system
Ramos Mabugu, Ismael Fofana and Margaret Chitiga, Assessing Interregional Equity and Efficiency Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in South Africa
Eddie Rakabe, The State of Fiscal Stress in South Africa’s Provinces: Improving fiscal performance
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Friday | 10:20 - 10:50
EBW Building
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Tea/Coffee
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Friday | 10:50 - 11:25
EBW Auditorium
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South African Journal of Economics
In this session Steve Koch, managing editor of the SAJE, will talk about what the SAJE is looking for in an article, both in terms of content and focus.
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Friday | 11:30 - 12:50 | Parallel Sessions I |
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Session I2
Economic growth
EBW2
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John Dunne, Giorgio D'agostino and Luca Pieroni, Military Expenditure, Endogeneity and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
John Paul Dunne and Nan Tian, Military Spending, Conflict and Economic Growth in Africa
Rasaki Stephen Dauda and Jesse Meshach Aziakpono, A panel data analysis of fertility and mortality effects on economic growth and development in West Africa
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Session I3
Public finance
EBW3
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Mbako Mbo and Charles Adjasi, Drivers of Organizational Performance: A State-Owned Enterprise Perspective
Henk Gnade, Basic infrastructure delivery and its welfare affect on rural and urban municipalities
Kabeya Clement Mulamba, Fiona Tregenna and Botha Ilse, Analysis of strategic interaction among South African municipalities
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Session I4
Economics and education
EBW4
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Dev Tewari, Is matric math a good predictor of student performance in the first year university degree? A case study of faculty of management studies, UKZN
Alicia Fourie, Determining the efficiency of the TUCE in South Africa, A NWU Potchefstroom Campus study
Nico Keyser, Self-regulated learning and time perspective as predictors of academic performance in undergraduate Economics studies.
Lorraine Greyling and Nadia de Villiers, Analysing the impact of interventions on the performance of Economics 1 students
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Session I5
Labour economics
EBW5
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Simon Ssekabira Ntege, Paid/salaried- verses self- employment choice and mobility, amidst equal opportunity laws in South Africa
Margaret Chitiga-mabugu, Maisonnave Helene, Ramos Mabugu and Veronique Robichaud, Analysing Job Creation Effects of Scaling Up Infrastructure Spending in South Africa
Cobus Burger, Using discrete choice dynamic programming to model job search and reservation wages in South Africa
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Session I6
Financial economics
EBW6
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Darrol Stanley, Levan Efremidze, Michael Kinsman and Jannie Rossouw, Market Timing of the FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index Utilizing Entropy Analytics
Sean van der Merwe, Darren Steven and Martinette Pretorius, Bayesian Extreme Value Analysis of Stock Exchange Data
Gillian van Heerden, IPO Under-pricing on the JSE
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Friday | 12:50 - 14:00
EBW Building
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Lunch
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