The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the world. The surge in the number of daily new cases and deaths around the world and in South Africa, in particular, has increased fear, psychological breakdown, and uncertainty among the population during the COVID-19 pandemic period,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the world. The surge in the number of daily new cases and deaths around the world and in South Africa, in particular, has increased fear, psychological breakdown, and uncertainty among the population during the COVID-19 pandemic period,...

This paper investigates the threshold of the cyclical adjusted primary balance (CAPB) that can be attributed to fiscal consolidation in South Africa. The CAPB framework is used in the threshold autoregressive regime (TAR) from 1979 to 2022. The contribution of the paper is the estimation of the...

Biodiversity response-based diagnostic tools are nonlinear approaches that simultaneously consider complex environmental stressors. Such approaches have been used to quantify biological responses to human-induced environmental changes. This study identified the major environmental stressors of...

Financial uncertainty is a key determinant in investment decisions. This study explores whether investors herd in response to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and their effect on stock prices. Daily data ranging from July 16, 2011, to August 4, 2022, of stock-listed companies in Saudi Arabia,...