Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Economics) by Title
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Implications of tax reform in selected countries for taxation of income in agriculture
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1990-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : If monetarism was the economic fashion of the 1970's, tax reform has become the vogue of the 1980's. This study consequently reviews the implications of tax reform for tax provisions applicable to ... -
Improving the well-being of the poor through microfinance : evidence from the Small Enterprise Foundation in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Poverty in South Africa’s rural areas is complex and severe, especially among female-headed households. The marginalisation of South Africa’s rural areas over a period of decades resulted in an acute ... -
Inflation expectations in South Africa : non-rational, intertemporal and idiosyncratic heterogeneity represented by a term structure approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : A key factor in the inflation-targeting regime is the psychological process by which decision makers form their expectations of future inflation. Economic models often assume that on aggregate, decision ... -
The influence of fiscal policymaking frameworks on fiscal outcomes : evidence from the European Union
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the potential of centralised, top-down procedural rules (also known as budget-process rules) and independent fiscal councils to complement numerical fiscal rules as devices ... -
An institutional assessment of inflation targeting as a framework for monetary policy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A number of themes run through this dissertation, the first of which is the importance of money in facilitating decentralised decision making by lowering transaction costs and by contributing to the ... -
An institutional assessment of the role of sovereign wealth funds in managing resource revenues
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This dissertation studies the contribution of sovereign wealth funds to the management of fiscal revenues derived from the extraction of natural resources. The literature on the “resource curse” has ... -
Institutions and institutional change as explanation for differences in economic development – a study of the first three decades of the postcolonial experience of Zambia and Botswana
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)Numerous theories have been constructed to provide reasons for economic growth differences between countries. As data became more readily available, cross-country empirical studies identified a set of variables that ... -
The introduction of new technology in a mature industry : an evolutionary analysis of the South African textile industry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: At the beginning of the 1990s, the South African textile industry faced many challenges, including the dismantling of protective barriers, requiring firms to adapt to increased foreign competition in ... -
An investigation of the labour market determinants of income dynamics for a highly unequal society: The South African case
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : South Africa ranks as the country with the highest income inequality in the world. Inequality of labour market outcomes drives most of this inequality. Labour market success (or failure) is a crucial ... -
Land rights in sub-Saharan Africa : measuring impact with satellite images, machine learning and citizen science
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The thesis employs satellite imagery to measure the impacts of land rights- in data-scarce sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). SSA governments are politically and financially constrained to provide objective and ... -
Lessons from South African bank failures 2002 to 2014
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This study draws lessons from recent South African financial history. The period covers the 2002/3 small bank crisis, the 2008 global financial crisis and the collapse of African Bank in 2014. During the ... -
A macroeconometric policy model of the South African economy based on weak rational expectations with an application to monetary policy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Lucas critique states that if expectations are not explicitly dealt with, conventional econometric models are inappropriate for policy analyses, as their coefficients are not policy invariant. The ... -
Macroeconomic consequences of fiscal deficits in developing countries : a comparative study of Zimbabwe and selected African countries (1980-2008)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)Fiscal deficits, which are the end result of fiscal indiscipline and lack of fiscal space, have been the focus of fiscal and macroeconomic adjustment in developed and developing countries. Developments in the euro zone ... -
Making under-resourced health systems work for vulnerable women and children : antenatal care in Malawi
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This thesis investigates the implementation barriers and adoption of maternal health care interventions in Malawi, a sub-Saharan African country with one of the highest maternal mortality rates and most ... -
Mannekragontwikkeling in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika met besondere verwysing na aspekte van formele tegniese en beroepsonderwys van die geemplojeerde in die Vrystaat
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1982-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Manpower development is a subsection of economic planning. The aim of this study was to make a contribution to the existing perception of the education planning and economic planning of manpower ... -
The measurement of economic development : alternative composite indices
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The success of policies aimed at economic development cannot be monitored and evaluated without development indicators. These indicators are also crucial in comparing levels of development across time ... -
Measuring social and economic mobility in South Africa: new approaches to well-known survey data concerns
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The aim of this dissertation is measuring economic and social mobility in South Africa. The work from this thesis shows that various problems with survey responses can produce misleading impressions of ... -
Methods for aggregating microeconomic data : applications to art prices, business sentiment and historical commodity prices
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : In the modern world, large microeconomic datasets are becoming increasingly available due to technological developments. These datasets provide an opportunity to improve the measurement of a range of ... -
Micro-price adjustment to the new currency system in Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This dissertation focuses on market integration, pricing and price-setting behaviour of firms with emphasis on disaggregated consumer price data after the introduction of a new currency system in Zimbabwe. ... -
A microeconomic model of banking with a strategically determined interbank market
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This dissertation generalizes the seminal model of financial contagion by Allen and Gale (2000) to allow an aggregate liquidity demand shock to occur with positive probability. A shock with positive ...
