Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Economics) by Title
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Balance sheet policies and financial stability : central banking reimagined
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Balance sheet policies have become the primary policy lever of several central banks in the wake of the international financial crisis. However, with inflated central bank balance sheets, and global ... -
Beplanning van die verstedeliking van die Kleurlinggroep in Wes-Kaapland met spesiale verwysing na die Weskus
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1976)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please see full text -
Communication as a strategic monetary policy tool : an evaluation of the effectiveness of the South African Reserve Bank's communication
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The effectiveness of monetary policy depends importantly on the expectations of the private sector, as it is largely through this channel of the transmission mechanism that policy changes are transmitted ... -
Concentration of economic power in the South African manufacturing industry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1977-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : No abstract available. -
Conceptual and empirical advances in antitrust market definition with application to South African competition policy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Delineating the relevant product and geographic market is an important first step in competition inquiries, as it permits an assessment of market power and substitutability. Critics often argue that ... -
A demographic history of settler South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Economic incentives affect demographic outcomes. That is to say, fertility, mortality, migration and mobility are a result of economic performance, growth and inequality. While demographic changes may be ... -
Economic aspects of scientific research in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1970-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: see item for full text AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: sien item vir volteks. -
The economic demography of South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is remarkable that population, which is at the centre of the economic problem - the Wealth if not the Poverty of Nations - has received scant attention in economic research in South Africa. Which ... -
An economic examination of non-profit accountability to client-communities in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The target of non-profit organisation (NPO) accountability is efficacy in achieving the mission, the efficiency with resource use, risk-minimising and guarding against corruption (Mook, 2012). However, ... -
An economic perspective on school leadership and teachers' unions in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation considers two factors that are considered critical to disrupting an existing culture of inefficiency in the production of learning in South Africa, namely school leadership and teachers’ ... -
Education and country growth models
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The over-arching concern of the three parts of the dissertation is how economics can and should influence education policymaking, the emphasis on the economics side being models of country development ... -
Education quality in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa : an economic approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Education has always occupied a central role in the discipline of economics, featuring prominently in the theoretical constructs of the discipline and, more recently, in their empirical applications. While ... -
Effects of behavioural and psychological attributes on labour market outcomes in an uncertain economic environment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The power of human capital variables in predicting an individual’s economic success is well documented theoretically and empirically. However, recently, economists have acknowledged that even with a rich ... -
An empirical analysis of poverty, inequality and the labour market in Malawi
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This thesis is a consolidation of three related studies on Malawi. The first study contains spatial and temporal comparisons of poverty and inequality in Malawi using two non-monetary dimensions, namely ... -
An empirical investigation into the gendered informality and job search in the South African labour market
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The dissertation sets out to understand the ways in which gender inequality is maintained when women are disadvantaged in terms of access to better informal sector jobs, benefits from economic recovery ... -
Employment policy effects on firm dynamics : evidence from the South African labour market
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As South African policymakers strive to tackle low economic growth, poverty, unemployment, and inequality, the ability to unpack the effects of policy at a firm-level is key to the reformulation of more ... -
Endogenous credit money : evidence from selected developing countries
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The endogenous money theory states that the money supply responds endogenously to the demand for credit. The money supply is not exogenously determined by the central bank. The endogenous theory is ... -
Essays on dynamic macroeconomics
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the first essay of this thesis, a medium scale DSGE model is developed and estimated for the South African economy. When used for forecasting, the model is found to outperform private sector economists ... -
Essays on fiscal policy in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universit, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This study is primarily motivated by the renewed interest in the effects of fiscal policy on general macroeconomic outcomes and macroeconomic stability since the 2008/09 Global Financial Crisis. In the ... -
Essays on industrial dynamics: evidence from Swaziland
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This thesis is completely based on a unique and rich establishment-level panel dataset that has never been used before provided by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) of Swaziland to study industrial ...
