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This paper studies drivers of high-frequency (daily) dynamics of the South African rand vis-à-vis the dollar from January 2001 to July 2007. We find strong nonlinear effects of commodity prices, perceived country and emerging market risk premium and changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate on...
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This paper addresses difficulties in modelling exchange rates in South Africa. Real exchange rate models of earlier research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation methods. Alternative exchange rate models proposed in...
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Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa. The amount of socio-economic information available to the subjects about their counterparts is varied. No significant behavioural differences are observed, when no such...
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The countries comprising the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are currently not very integrated into global value chains (GVCs), potentially missing out on important development opportunities. Accordingly, we explore high level options for promoting their integration. Given East Asia's...
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Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a unique data set on the usage patterns of financial services...
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-independent models of fairness. Our results have implications for price discrimination, labor markets, and dynamic pricing …
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In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on … competitive market characterised by uncertainty about the commodity price, if firms can respond to the revelation of demand …
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, conventional linear models of price dynamics such as the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) can lead to erroneous inferences … about cointegration relationships, price adjustments and relative values. We propose the use of regime-switching models to … address these issues. Our regime switching model uses price data to infer whether pricing is oil-driven (integrated) or gas …
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We study how mandatory online disclosure of supermarket prices affects prices and price dispersion in brick … in price dispersion and a 4% to 5% drop in prices following the transparency regulation. The price drop varied across …, we show that prices declined as more consumers used price-comparison websites, and we highlight the role of media …
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–a critical determinant of the upper tail–and show how public transport access can both reconcile differences in fuel price …
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