This paper estimates South Africa's disaggregated import demand function with Nigeria from 1992 to 2010 utilizing the bounds testing approach to co-integration and the unrestricted error-correction model. We further estimate South Africa's short-run and long-run import elasticities. Our results...

In this paper we ascertain South Africa's aggregate import demand function over the period 1950 to 2008 utilizing the bounds testing approach to cointegration, and the unrestricted error-correction model. Our study empirically investigates the impact of apartheid (1950-1994), in particular the...