Does the South African rand's relatively large volatility affect inflation? To shed some light on this question, a … standard estimation technique of exchange rate pass-through to inflation is extended to incorporate exchange rate volatility …. Estimated results suggest that higher exchange rate volatility tends to increase core inflation but to a relatively limited …

reflecting the inflation experiences of specific types of households, such as poor households, elderly households or households … from Statistics South Africa to calculate inflation rates for expenditure deciles for the period 1998 to 2006. As a result …, price indices and inflation rates calculated on the basis of these weights can not accurately reflect the rates of inflation …

From a cost-push inflation point of view, the fuel energy sector plays a significant role in price stability and …, causing inflation pressure within a low growth environment. The objective of this study was to analyse the impact of changes … in fuel prices on inflation and economic growth in South Africa as a proxy for fuel importing developing countries. This …

This paper studies the relationship between inflation and growth in South Africa. Two main issues are addressed: do … tests of the South African data support the findings of cross-section studies that inflation has a negative effect on growth … over the longer term? and, can higher growth be gained at the cost of higher inflation in the short run? The findings are …

This study investigate the inflation hedging ability of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) in South Africa. The Vector Error … and inflation and to determine whether inflation drives property returns, and if so, to what degree it drives returns …. This study finds that in the short run, CRE investments are generally a pervasive hedge against inflation. In the long run …

inflation and output growth. However, in the empirical literature there is no consensus on the existence of a Phillips curve in … Phillips curve exists for South Africa and to ascertain whether backward-looking or forward-looking components drive inflation … different measurements of inflation expectations and data frequency. Our findings therefore support the argument that monetary …