Monday | 08:30 - 10:00
V V H Neelsie
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Registration
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Monday | 10:00 - 10:30
VdSterr 1039
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Welcoming / Opening
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Monday | 10:30 - 11:30
VdSterr 1039
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Keynote Address: Rethinking incomplete contracts by Oliver Hart (Harvard University)
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Monday | 11:40 - 12:40 | Parallel Sessions A |
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Session A1
Economic growth
Schumann 104
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Nimrod Lidovho, The Impact of Money Laundering on Economic Growth
Vsevolod Gorlach and Pierre le Roux, The Impact of Economic Freedom on Economic Growth
Manoel Bittencourt, Monaheng Seleteng and Renee van Eyden, Inflation and Economic Growth in the Southern African Development Community
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Session A2
Public economics
Schumann 107
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Reyno Seymore, Margaret Mabugu and Jan Horn van Heerden, The welfare effects of Reversed Border Tax Adjustments as a remedy under unilateral environmental taxation: A South African case study
Nara Monkam, Analysis of the Productive Efficiency of Municipalities and Its Determinants in South Africa
Jugal Mahabir, Assessing the Impacts of Population Density, Migration and the Existence of Economies of Scale in the Provision of Municipal Services
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Session A3
International finance
Schumann 101
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Nombulelo Gumata and Mercy Teu, The intertemporal approach to the South African current account and inflation
Andreas Freytag and Stan du Plessis, The adjustment of current account (im-)balances in Africa
Robert Stuart and Motshidisi Mokoena, The Feasibility of the Proposed SADC Monetary Union
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Session A4
Labour economics
Schumann 204
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Phumzile Ncube, The gender wage gap along the wage distribution in South Africa, 2001-2010: A quantile regression analysis
Dieter von Fintel, Hendrik van Broekhuizen and Gideon du Rand, Numeric competence, confidence and school quality in the South African wage function: towards understanding pre-labour market discrimination
Verena Tandrayen-ragoobur and Anisha Ayrga, Gender Wage Gap in the Mauritian EPZ Sector
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Session A5
Exchange rates
Schumann 205
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Chris van Heerden and Andrè Heymans, Enhancing the future spot exchange rate estimation
Duncan Hodge, The exchange rate, Dutch disease and manufacturing in South Africa: what do the data say?
Shakill Hassan and Sean Smith, The Rand as a Carry Trade Target
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Session A6
Applied microeconomics
Schumann 208
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Brendan Meehan, Correlates of Sexual Concurrency: Findings from a survey of the student population at the University of Cape Town
Sean Muller, Causal complexes and randomised trials: the example of class size and educational outcomes
Lisa Higginson and Richard Simson, The repeated prisoner's dilemma: experimental results once again
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Session A7
Public economics and heatlh
Schumann 207B
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Laurie Binge, Ronelle Burger, Dawie van Lill and Servaas van der Berg, Estimating the demand for health care in South Africa
Craig Lemboe and Philip Black, Cigarette taxes and Smuggling in South Africa: Causes and consequences
Marine Erasmus, The South African burden of disease: Implications for resource allocation under the proposed NHI
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Monday | 12:40 - 13:40
V V H Neelsie
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Lunch
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Monday | 13:40 - 15:00 | Parallel Sessions B |
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Session B1
Unemployment in South Africa
Schumann 104
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Frederick CvN Fourie, The Unemployment debate in South Africa: Three discourses, three worlds?
Discussants: Ben Smit and Murray Leibbrandt
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Session B2
Environment
Schumann 107
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David Roche-kelly, Can Emission Trading Schemes and Emission Taxes be harmonized?
Marcel Kohler, CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, Income and Trade Openness: A South African Perspective
Jacques Joubert, Economic viability of wind turbines for Western Cape farms, using Germany’s example
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Session B3
Geography and economics
Schumann 101
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Leann Cloete, Mario du Preez and Deborah Lee, Valuing people’s preferences for the removal of a local disamenity: A contingent valuation study
Kotie Viljoen and Rinie Schenck, The socio-economic role of buy-back centres in the waste recycling chain in Pretoria and Bloemfontein (South Africa): a comparitive study
Dieter von Fintel, Waldo Krugell and Adri Wolhuter, Labour markets and agglomeration: The urban rat race in South Africa
Ivan Turok, Spatial Economic Disparities in South Africa: Towards a New Research Agenda
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Session B4
Business cycles
Schumann 204
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Siobhan Redford, The cyclicality of mark-ups in South Africa
Albert Touna Mama and Nicola Viegi, Business Cycle Accounting for South Africa
Harri Kemp, Estimating Potential Output for South Africa: A Production Function Approach
Ewa Karwowski, Maturity and Stagnation in the South African Economy
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Session B5
Monetary Economics
Schumann 205
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Robert Stuart and Nondumiso Gumede, The Bank Lending and Balance Sheet Channels of Monetary Policy: A Theoretical Analysis
Laban Chesang and Ruthira Naraidoo, Determinacy, Asymmetric Preferences and Optimal Monetary Policy
Rudi Steinbach, Riaan Ehlers and Vafa Anvari, Estimating the effect of South Africa's banking sector fragility during the global financial crisis
Guangling (dave) Liu, Will the SARB always succeed in fighting inflation with contractionary policy?
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Session B6
Microeconomics
Schumann 208
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Zuzana Brixiova, Modeling Productive Entrepreneurhsip in Developing Countries
Tamaryn Roberts, An analysis of the additional support needs of households eligible for the Child Support Grant
Lori Curtis, Does Social Assistance Participation lead to lower Self-Reported Health?
Jean-pierre Geldenhuys, The Effect of the Child Support Grant on Fertility
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Session B7
Public economics
Schumann 207B
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Gavin Keeton and Gregory White, The economic implications of nationalising the South African mining industry
Estian Calitz, Sally Wallace and Le Roux Burrows, The impact of tax incentives to stimulate investment in South Africa
Jacques Kibambe Ngoie and Niek Schoeman, Efficiency of optimal taxation in a dynamic stochastic environment: Case of South Africa
Philip Hornsby and Sean Muller, The Eskom Power Alert Initiative: A Public Goods Game
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Monday | 15:00 - 15:30
V V H Neelsie
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Tea
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Monday | 15:30 - 17:00 | Parallel Sessions C |
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Session C1
Empirical Finance
Schumann 104
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Jan Adriaan van Greunen and André Heymans, The stationarity of financial time series
Evan Gilbert and Grant Smith, Are Momentum Strategies Profitable for Large Asset Managers on the JSE Securities Exchange?
Rangan Gupta and Mampho Modise, Macroeconomic Variables and South African Stock Return Predictability
Johan Coetzee, H van Zyl and M Tait, Bank selection criteria in the South African retail banking sector
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Session C2
Post-Great Recession Economics
Schumann 107
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Cees Bruggemans, Excellence in Economics
Andrea Saayman, Macroeconomics after Four Decades of Rational Expectations
Stan du Plessis, How the crisis can help us to rethink monetary models
Peet Strydom, Economics for a New Era
Discussant: Philippe Burger
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Session C3
Contemporary applications in regional and sectoral modelling
Schumann 101
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Heinrich Bohlmann, Reducing Illegal Immigration to South Africa: A Dynamic CGE Analysis
Requier Wait, Mega events, big impacts: an economic analysis of Neil Diamond's South African Tour
Carel van Aardt, Interrelationships between macro-economic changes and changes in household balance sheets: A CGE and micro-economic modelling approach
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Session C4
Business cycles
Schumann 204
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Willem H. Boshoff, Band-pass filters and business cycle analysis: High frequency and medium-term deviation cycles in South Africa and what these measure
Adel Bosch and Franz Ruch, An Alternative Business Cycle Dating Procedure for South Africa
Gavin Keeton and Richard Clay, The South African yield curve as a predictor of economic downturns: an update
Jessica Ray Kramer and Greg Farrell, The reliability of South African real-time output gap estimates
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Session C5
Monetary Economics
Schumann 205
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Leroi Raputsoane and Ruthira Naraidoo, Time varying parameters, financial market conditions and the optimal monetary policy reaction function with asymmetric and zone targeting preferences for South Africa
Mamello Nchake, Price setting behaviour and inflation dynamics in Lesotho
Annari de Waal and Reneé van Eyden, The monetary transmission mechanism in South Africa: A VECX* model
Brian Kantor and Graham Barr, Money and economic activity in South Africa: the relationships updated to 2010
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Session C6
International economics
Schumann 208
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Tasha Naughtin, Lawrence Edwards and Neil Rankin, No Chinese Jackets Required: Clothing Quotas, Consumer Prices and Import Quality in South Africa
Andreas Freytag, Rabah Arezki and Marc Quintyn, Gold Price Volatility and the South African Rand
Andreas Freytag, Co-pierre Georg and Sebastian Voll, Savings, Institutions and the Balance of Payments Dynamics
Leon Charl du Toit and Stan du Plessis, The Exchange Rate Regime and Large Current Account Adjustments
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Session C7
Environment
Schumann 207B
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Madubula Nomonde, Dewald van Niekerk, Visser Riaan and Koos van Zyl, Alternative financing mechanisms for disaster risk management in South Africa
Kyle Cruickshank and Geoffrey Antrobus, The Cost of Wind Power in South Africa
Peter Baur, Alternative energy: modelling conflict within a risk environment
Annabel Horn, The Potential for using Cost Benefit Analysis in Developing Optimal Water Management Strategies for Project Development on the Berg River
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Monday | 17:30 -
Schumann 207B
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ESSA Academic Committee Meeting
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Tuesday | 08:15 - 09:20 | Parallel Sessions D |
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Session D1
Labour economics
Schumann 104
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Gerhardus van Zyl, Informal employee contribution to labour productivity: The Tswane metropolitan tyre-fitting industry as a case study
Neil Rankin, Gareth Roberts and Volker Schöer, Labour brokers, public placement or training? What works for getting people into (permanent) jobs?
Carlos da Maia, Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Mozambique
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Session D2
Economic theory
Schumann 107
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George Roderick Etheredge and Don Ross, Procrastination, uncertainty and optimisation
Nico Katzke, Instability bred within an efficient financial system: Using a principal-agent approach to understand the changed incentive structures of financial intermediaries
Alexander Zimper, Rationalizable information equilibria
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Session D3
Business history
Schumann 101
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Frank Liebenberg and Robert Vivian, A history of the claims made wording of the liability policy
Kristen van Lelyveld, The Battle of the British: a historical analysis of the key individuals in the early formation and activities of the South African National Life Assurance Company, 1918-1939
Simone Halleen, The establishment and foundation of the South African National Life Assurance Company, 1918-1939
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Session D4
Growth and investment
Schumann 204
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Kevin Kotze and Stan du Plessis, Measuring Core Inflation with Wavelets
Siobhan Redford and Eliphas Ndou, Relative price volatility: which categories in the CPI contribute its volatility?
Jannie Rossouw and Adèle Breytenbach, Methodology for compiling an inflation rate for the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Session D5
International trade
Schumann 205
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Niall Condon, The effectiveness of AGOA in increasing trade from African LDCs
Lawrence Edwards and Robert Lawrence, AGOA Rules: The intended and unintended consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
Henri Bezuidenhout and Joanne Wrobleski, South African trade hegemony, is the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement heading for a BRIC wall?
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Session D6
Development
Schumann 208
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Andrew Kerr, A Model of Comparative Advantage with Matching in the Urban Tanzanian Labour Market
S. N.-a. Mensah, Dwindling opportunities for external migration: impact on household income in rural Lesotho
Lebohang A Mafa, Profiling socio-economic inequality in the Free State: Focus at the district level
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Session D7
Macroeconomics
Schumann 207B
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Twala Jacob, Consumption and house prices in South Africa
Deodat E Adenutsi, Meshach J Aziakpono and Matthew K. Ocran, The changing impact of macroeconomic environment on remittance inflows in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deodat E. Adenutsi, Meshach J Aziakpono and Mathew K Ocran, Financial liberalisation and international remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tuesday | 09:30 - 10:30 | Parallel Sessions E |
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Session E1
Labour economics
Schumann 104
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Martin Wittenberg, Industrialisation and surplus labour: A general equilibrium model of sleep, work and leisure
Volker Schöer and Neil Rankin, Job advertising and screening behaviour of firms in a slack labour market: Evidence from a South African firm survey
Rulof Burger, A discrete choice dynamic programming model of the South African schooling-earnings nexus
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Session E2
Finance
Schumann 107
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Robert Vivian and Auret Christo, Are script dividends, dividends?
Ewa Karwowski, Bringing Islamic Banking into the Mainstream is not an Alternative to Conventional Finance
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Session E3
Economic history
Schumann 101
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Sophia du Plessis and Servaas van der Berg, Poverty amongst South Africa’s ‘Coloured’ population: A quantitative historical perspective
Tinashe Nyamunda and Patience Mukwambo, From a fixed currency dependence to decimalization. Towards the creation of an “independent” floating currency system in Rhodesia, 1965-1970.
Andrie Schoombee, Access to formal banking services in SADC (2000-2009)
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Session E4
Inflation credibility
Schumann 204
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Vishnu Padayachee, Jannie Rossouw and Joubert Fanie, An international comparison of inflation credibility surveys
Vishnu Padayachee, Jannie Rossouw and Adél Bosch, A comparison of the results of domestic inflation credibility surveys and inflation expectation surveys
Vishnu Padayachee and Jannie Rossouw, Representative inflation credibility surveys since 2006: what do the results tell us?
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Session E5
FDI
Schumann 205
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Nicholas Spearman and Neil Rankin, Governance and FDI: toward an OLI approach
Marie M Stack and Geetha Ravishankar, Efficiency of Foreign Direct Investment: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Potential Direct Investment
Nicholas Spearman and Neil Rankin, Governance and FDI: disparities due to differences in methodologies
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Session E6
Microeconomics
Schumann 208
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Derek Yu, Some factors influencing the comparability and reliability of poverty and inequality estimates across households surveys
Michael Heyink and Muller Sean, Conspicuous Consumption in South Africa: Race, Assets and Reference Groups
Cobus Burger, Can Time Inconsistencies Reduce the Effect of HIV Treatment Programs?
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Session E7
Public Economics
Schumann 207B
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Noluntu Dyubhele, Ronald Mears and Pierre le Roux, The use of indigenous knowledge by rural women in the development of the Ngqushwa municipality
Philippe Burger and Marina Marinkov, Regime-dependent fiscal reaction functions: do they tell us something about government behaviour in South Africa?
Alex van der Merwe and Geoff Harris, The scope for mobilising public opinion against corruption: The attitudes of KwaZulu-Natal university students
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Tuesday | 10:30 - 11:00
V V H Neelsie
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Tea
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Tuesday | 11:00 - 12:25 | Parallel Sessions F |
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Session F1
Econex panel discussion
Schumann 104
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Nicola Theron, David Lewis, Simon Roberts and Robert Wilson, The use of Economics and the Institutional environment of Competition Policy – what lessons have we learnt in South Africa during the past decade?
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Session F2
Evidence based policy
Schumann 107
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Sean Muller, Behavioural public economics and the prevention of exploitation
Matthew Rose and Geoffrey Antrobus, The sustainability of highly quantitative tools of economics analysis in a developmental context
Frikkie Booysen, Julia Littell, Terri Pigott and Chantell de Reuck, The Good, the Bad and research synthesis in Economics
Claire Vermaak, Marcel Kohler and Bruce Rhodes, Developing An Energy based Poverty Line for South Africa.
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Session F3
Colonial Economic history
Schumann 101
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Johan Fourie, The nature, growth and distribution of wealth in the Dutch Cape Colony: measurements from probate inventories
Ada Jansen, Sophia du Plessis and Dieter von Fintel, Willingness to pay: Slave prices in the Cape Colony
Pim de Zwart, Wages, Prices and Living Standards in South Africa: A Long Term Perspective, 1652-1912
Lorraine Greyling, Estranelle Lubbe and Grietjie Verhoef, Savings and economic growth: a historical analysis of the savings behaviour and economic performance in the Colony of Natal, 1856 - 1909
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Session F4
Monetary policy
Schumann 204
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Alain Kabundi and Nonhlanhla Ngwenya, Assessing monetary policy in South Africa in a data-rich environment
Ruthira Naraidoo, Asymmetric Preferences in A New Keynesian Model of Unemployment
Franz Ruch, Alternative Policy Rules for South African Monetary Policy
Mark Ellyne and Carl Veller, The Stability of Prices, and the Price of Stability: How Tough is the SARB's Inflation Targeting Policy
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Session F5
International Trade: Opportunities and Challenges
Schumann 205
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Andre Jordaan, Trade Facilitation among SADC Countries
Mihalis Chasomeris, Port Pricing in South Africa
Marrianne Matthee and Waldo Krugell, Barriers to Internationalisation: Firm-Level Evidence from South Africa
Sonja Grater, Ermie Steenkamp and Wilma Viviers, Identification and Comparison of Export Opportunities for South African Products and Services
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Session F6
Economics of Education
Schumann 208
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Stephen Taylor, Modelling indicators of effective school management in the South African education production function
Pierre de Villiers, Higher education and the poor in South Africa
Martin Gustafsson, More countries, similar results: A nonlinear programming approach to normalising test scores needed for growth regressions
Nicholas Spaull, Equity and Efficiency in South African Primary Schools: A Preliminary Analysis of SACMEQ III
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Session F7
Public Economics
Schumann 207B
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Sabelo Mtantato, The impact of the current land use patterns in South Africa on public transport and human settlements
J Paul Dunne, Sam Perlo-freeman and Ron Smith, Determining Military Expenditures: Dynamics, Spill-Overs and Heterogeneity in Panel Data
Ronney Ncwadi and Pierre le Roux, An evaluation of the economic impact of the local business service centres on small, medium and microenterprises during the period 2001 – 2005.
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Tuesday | 12:25 - 13:40
V V H Neelsie
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Lunch
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Tuesday | 13:40 - 15:00 | Parallel Sessions G |
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Session G1
Competition policy
Schumann 104
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Richard Grimbeek, Sunel Grimbeek and Steven Koch, The Consistency of Merger Decisions in a Developing Country: The South African Competition Commission
Tapera Gilbert Muzata, Sunel Grimbeek and Raksha Darji, The impact of antitrust fines on firm valuation in South Africa: The case of Pioneer Foods, Tiger Brands and Sasol Chemical Industries
James Fairburn, Theory, Evidence and Horizontal Merger Policy
Willem H. Boshoff, Statistical inference in competition policy: how to improve market definition by thinking like a statistician
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Session G2
Finance
Schumann 107
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Barry Strydom and Ailie Charteris, The South African risk-free rate anomaly
Lalitha Yadavalli and Kanyane Matlou, Regime switching model of stock market volatitlity
Nombulelo Gumata and Nonhlanhla Nhlapo, Determinants of growth in private sector credit extension in South Africa: the role of house and equity prices
Lizelle Janse van Rensburg and Philippe Burger, A hedonic house price index for the City of Johannesburg: An alternative to mean and median house price indices
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Session G3
Urban economics
Schumann 101
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Matthew Macdevette and Mark Ellyne, Estimating the Impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on the South African Economy
Alain Bala Pholo and Kristian Behrens, Do rent-seeking and interregional transfers contribute to urban primacy in sub-Saharan Africa?
Mario du Preez and Michael Sale, Determining the effect of social housing developments on adjacent property prices: An application of a spatial hedonic pricing model.
Ronald Richard Mears, Demographic and urban characteristics of Soweto: a comparison between 1993 and 2008.
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Session G4
Monetary economics
Schumann 204
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Leroi Raputsoane and Ruthira Naraidoo, Financial market conditions and the response of monetary policy to uncertainty with asymmetric and zone targeting preferences in South Africa
Shakill Hassan, Greg Farrell and Nicola Viegi, Minimal conditions for bad news about inflation to cause currency appreciation on impact
Shakill Hassan and Nicola Viegi, Exchange Rate Volatility and Monetary Policy in South Africa: Reconsidering the Evidence
Mike Sikwila, Inflation impact of an exchange rate adjustment: A case of Zimbabwe 1990-2006
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Session G5
Microeconomics
Schumann 205
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Timothy Hinks and Dorrit Posel, Trusting neighbours or strangers in a racially divided society: Insights from survey data in South Africa
Cally Ardington, Till Barnighausen and Case Anne, The Economic Consequences of Illness and Death in South Africa
Ronelle Burger, Marisa Coetzee and Carina van der Watt, Calculating the benefits of linking ties: the case of domestic workers
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Session G6
Economic education
Schumann 208
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Alicia Fourie, Gender disparity in human capital and utilisation rates of introductory economics students: NWU, Potchefstroom Campus Study
Neil Rankin, Volker Schöer, Claire Sebastiao and Corné van Walbeek, Predictors of academic performance in introductory economics courses: National Senior Certificate (NSC) versus National Benchmark Test (NBT)
Jen Snowball and Markus Mostert, Dancing with the Devil: Formative Peer Assessment and Academic Performance
Neil Rankin and Volker Schöer, Do different teaching styles affect students’ performance in an introductory Economics course? A Randomised Controlled Trial of active learning in first year economics tutorials.
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Session G7
Public economics
Schumann 207B
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Manoel Bittencourt, (Young) Democracies and Government Size: Evidence from Latin America
Mduduzi Biyase and Talent Zwane, The robustness of Wagner's law: evidence from Africa
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu, Helen Maisonnave and Vernonique Robichaud, Realising MDGs through Intergovernmental Transfers in South Africa
Charl Jooste, Ruthira Naraidoo and Dave Liu, Analysing the effects of fiscal policy shocks in the South African economy
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Tuesday | 15:00 - 15:30
V V H Neelsie
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Tea
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Tuesday | 15:40 - 17:00 | Parallel Sessions H |
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Session H1
Competition policy & regulation
Schumann 104
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Ralitza Dobreva, Competition, Productivity and Corporate Control
James Fairburn, Corporate Control and the Managerial Labour Market
Nicola Theron and Johann van Eeden, Two Sided Markets: an Application to Mobile Termination in South Africa
Lukasz Grzybowski, Fixed-to-Mobile Substitution in the European Union
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Session H2
Environment
Schumann 107
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Deborah Lee, Stephen Hosking and Mario du Preez, Estimating the willingness to pay for estuarine recreational services: An application of the choice experiment method to the Sundays River estuary
Johane Dikgang and Edwin Muchapondwa, Estimating Optimal Conservation Fees in the Presence of Land Restitution in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park between Botswana and South Africa
David Roche-kelly and Lizelle van Dyk, A cost effectiveness analysis of some solutions to the Acid Mine Drainage in the Witwatersrand mining basins in the Johannesburg area
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Session H3
Macroeconomics
Schumann 101
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Nthabiseng Tsoanamatsie and Manoel Bittencourt, Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from BRICs
Joel Hinaunye Eita, A Macroeconometric Model of the Namibian Economy
Albert Touna Mama and Nicola Viegi, Institutional causes, Macroeconomic Outcomes and Saving-investment Correlations
Manoel Bittencourt, Rangan Gupta and Josine Uwilingiye, Tax Evasion, Financial Development and Inflation: Theory and Evidence
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Session H4
Monetary economics
Schumann 204
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Lumengo Bonga-bonga, Equity prices, monetary policy and economic activity in South Africa
Salminah Pulumo, Analysis of SADC inflation rates by means of Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations with Gibbs Sampling
Basil Moore, The Post Keynesian case for the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy to offset AD deficiency
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Session H5
International trade
Schumann 205
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Paul Alagidede, On trends and cyclical dynamics in the net barter terms of trade of sub-Saharan Africa’s primary commodity exporters
Johan Fourie and Maria Santana-gallego, Historical migration, trade and tourism
Thembeka Khumalo, Upgrading export structure in Sub-Saharan african countries
Vasily Sidorov, South Africa and Foreign Trade
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Session H6
Economics of Education
Schumann 208
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Robert Garlick, Peer effects under mixing and tracking: Evidence from South African college dormitories
Debra Lynne Shepherd, The impact of teacher subject knowledge on learner performance in South Africa: A within-student across-subject approach
Paula Armstrong, Teacher wages in the South African economy: how attractive is the teaching profession?
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Session H7
Growth and investment
Schumann 207B
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Mduduzi Biyase and Talent Zwane, An export-led growth (ELG) paradigm in Africa: Panel data Approach
Elsabé Loots, Carike Claassen and Henri Bezuidenhout, Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa: Making sense of a new reality
Ewert Kleynhans, FDI, technology, sales, and R&D spillovers enhancing production and competitiveness of firms on a micro-economic level
Seloinyana Elizabeth Selelo and Mike Nyamazana Sikwila, The determinants of fixed foreign direct investment in Botswana (1980-2007)
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Tuesday | 17:00 - 18:00
Schumann 107
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EHSSA AGM
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Tuesday | 18:45 -
Spier Estate
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Gala Dinner
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Wednesday | 08:15 - 09:40 | Parallel Sessions I |
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Session I1
Finance and regulation
Schumann 104
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Harold Ngalawa, Nicola Viegi and Fulbert Tchanatchana, Banking Instability and Deposit Insurance: The Role of Moral Hazard
Nicola Brink and Co-pierre Georg, Systemic Risk in the South African Interbank System
Jaco Mostert, The impact of the recent global meltdown on banking regulation and supervision
Richard Cheng and Mark Ellyne, Valuation of Deposit Insurance in South Africa Using an Option-Based Model
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Session I2
Labour economics
Schumann 107
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Anmar Pretorius and Derick Blaauw, Being a Zimbabwean day labourer in South Africa
Patrizio Piraino, Marital Sorting and Intergenerational Mobility in Brazil and South Africa
Derick Blaauw and Anmar Pretorius, The determinants of migrant wages in South Africa: the case of Zimbabwean day labourers
Gareth Roberts and Natasha Suchecki, A Comparison of the Self-Reported Employment Status and the Official Labour Market Classifications of Youth in South Africa.
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Session I3
Monetary economics
Schumann 101
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Rangan Gupta and Anandamayee Majumdar, Reconsidering the Welfare Cost of Inflation Using Nonparametric Estimation of the Money Demand Cointegration Equation
Thabo Mokoena, Inflation, inflation uncertainty and real output growth in South Africa
Brian Kantor and Hakon Kavli, Inflation and Inflation Expectations in South Africa: The observed absence of second round effects
Monique Reid, Inflation Expectations of the Inattentive General Public
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Session I4
Poverty and the middle class
Schumann 204
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Justin Visagie and Dorrit Posel, A reconsideration of what and who is middle class in South Africa
Ronelle Burger and Asmus Zoch, Examining the changing structure and characteristics of the middle class in South Africa
Lori Curtis, Child poverty in Canada and the UK
Michael Rogan, Poverty and headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997-2006
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Session I5
Microeconomics
Schumann 205
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Steven Koch and Neil Rankin, The Efficiency of African Manufacturing Enterprises: A Consideration of Semiparametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Rachel Jafta and Ramazan Uctu, Spinning off or licensing? The case of academic technology transfer at two South African Universities
Sanele Aubrey Gumede and Mihalis Chasomeris, Port Governance in South Africa
Frikkie Booysen, Damien de Walque, Mead Over and Hashimoto Hashimoto, Family Functioning FEATS and Treatment Success: Behavioural Economics from the field of ART
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Session I6
Finance
Schumann 208
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Bernhard Eckwert, Cheap Money and Risk Taking: Opacity versus Underlying Risk
Kevin Kotze, Cointegrated Pairs Trading Arbitrage Opportunities in South African Financial Markets
Andre Heymans and Ricardo da Câmara, Measuring spill-over effects of foreign markets on the JSE before, during and after international financial crises
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Session I7
Happiness and well being
Schumann 207B
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Ferdi Botha, The gold of one’s ring is not far more precious than the gold of one’s heart: Reported happiness among married and cohabitating South African adults
Amina Ebrahim, Ferdinand Botha and Jen Snowball, The determinants of happiness among race groups is South Africa
Talita Greyling, Measuring and understanding the well-being of the population of the Gauteng Region of South Africa.
Marisa Coetzee, Subjective Well-Being and Poverty in South Africa pre-and post-1994
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Wednesday | 09:40 - 10:10
V V H Neelsie
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Tea
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Wednesday | 10:10 - 11:10 | Parallel Sessions J |
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Session J1
Labour economics
Schumann 104
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Claire Vermaak, Low-wage mobility in the South African labour market
Koen Smet, Trade induced unemployment - The case of post-apartheid South Africa
Antonie Pool, Poverty dynamics and post-apartheid migration of core and dynasty households in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Session J2
Labour economics
Schumann 107
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Darma Mahadea and Richard Simson, Challenges of Employment Creation in South Africa
Fiona Tregenna, The relationship between unemployment and earnings inequality in South Africa
Gareth Roberts, Youth and unemployment: The role of inflated expectations
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Session J3
Phillips curve
Schumann 101
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Monique Brigitte Reid, A sticky information Phillips curve for South Africa
Cobus Vermeulen, A VAR analysis of inflation and employment in South Africa
Temitope Leshoro, Empirical estimates of the Phillips curve for Kenya
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Session J4
Public policy
Schumann 204
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Devon Windvogel, Transformation: Selective history to legitamise policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Rashaad Amra, Do Social Norms Matter for Economic Policy? : An Application to South Africa
Ramos Mabugu, Véronique Robichaud, Margaret Chitiga and Héléne Maisonnave, Fiscal Imbalances and Intertemporal CGE Modelling
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Session J5
International trade
Schumann 205
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Carl Veller, The Terms of Trade and the Resource Curse
Nilanjan Banik and C. A. Yoonus, Trade as an Answer to Sustainable Economic Growth – The ECOWAS story
Vanessa Tang, Trade Openness and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation of Mauritius
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Session J6
Economics of education
Schumann 208
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Robert Garlick, The effect of school fees on enrollment in South Africa
Duncan Lishman, Perceptions and Signals: Education Reform and its Impact on Labour Market Outcomes in the new South Africa
Ivor Abramowitz, Neil Rankin, Volker Schöer and Corné van Walbeek, Risk Aversion and the Gender Differential in Academic Performance
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Session J7
Agricultural economics and the resource curse
Schumann 207B
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Nicolaas van der Wath, Tools for analysing the SA maize market
Nthambeleni Ramavhona, Does access to basic municipal services affect tax compliance behaviour?
Omoyeni Ajetomobi, Kalu Ukpai Ifegwu and Joshua Olusegun Ajetomobi, Hedonic analysis of consumers' preference in the choice of cowpea in Nigeria
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Wednesday | 11:20 - 12:20
Schumann 104
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Presidential Address
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Wednesday | 12:20 - 13:00
Schumann 104
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ESSA AGM
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Wednesday | 13:00 - 14:00
V V H Neelsie
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Lunch
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