South African Unemployment in the Post-Financial Crisis Era: What are the Determinants?
Research background: High unemployment rates are one of the greatest economic challenges facing the post-apartheid South African government over the past two decades and this problem has become more worrisome in the post-global financial crisis period.
Mbekeni Lutho, Phiri Andrew
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Financial development and economic growth in Botswana: New evidence from disaggregated data
In this study, the causal relationship between financial development and economic growth in Botswana is re-examined using disaggregated data from 1980 to 2020 on financial development.
Musakwa Mercy Tsitsi+1 more
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A mixed data sampling approach to the asymmetric impacts of world oil price on macroeconomic variables in Vietnam [PDF]
Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the asymmetric impacts of world oil price on macroeconomic variables in Vietnam, including domestic oil price, inflation and output growth.
Trinh Thi Tuyet Pham, Nhan Phan Ai Le
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A statistical approach to modeling the underground economy in South Africa
Aim/purpose – The underground economy is a major challenge across the world affecting both developed and developing economies. South Africa is no exception to this phenomenon and has lost billions of rands due to the underground economy.
Koloane Cathrine Thato, Bodhlyera Oliver
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The authors replicate and extend the Monte Carlo experiment presented in Doz, Giannone and Reichlin (A Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Approach For Large, Approximate Dynamic Factor Models, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012) on alternative (time-domain ...
Lucchetti Riccardo, Venetis Ioannis A.
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Mutual volatility transmission between assets and trading places
This article proposes a framework to model the mutual volatility transmission between multiple assets and multiple trading places in different time zones.
Masuhr Andreas, Trede Mark
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Monetary Policy Spillovers Through Industrial Growth in Nigeria: A Time Series Analysis
The study examines the impact of switching from direct to indirect monetary policy on industrial growth in Nigeria, using the annual time series data sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) statistical bulletin between 1960 and 2015.
Shobande Olatunji A.
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Effect of Higher Education on Economic Growth in Iran [PDF]
There are many factors affecting economic growth. Based on the literature, the effects of these factors such as higher education are mainly examined using endogenous economic growth theories.
Mojtaba Almasi+2 more
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Impact of refugee population on development: A comparative analysis for the case of host economies
This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between refugees and development in host economies from a macroeconomic point of view. The results obtained show that this relationship is non-linear.
Kouni Mohamed
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How Google Trends can improve market predictions— the case of the Warsaw Stock Exchange
The aim of this paper is to investigate interdependencies between the WIG20 index and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) related keywords quantified by a Google Trends search index.
Kropiński Paweł, Anholcer Marcin
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