The flying geese model, a theory of industrial development in latecomer economies is used to explore the prospects of South Africa playing the role of a leading 'goose' in the economic development of Africa. The model forms one theoretical framework that has been advanced to explain the economic...

The paper explores the validity of PPP theory in South Africa. Cointegration theory is applied to monthly data on two nominal exchange rates of the rand and relative prices. Our tests identify that long-run co-movement exists between the nominal exchange rate and the relative prices between...

The paper provides empirical analysis on the linkage betweenthe behavior of bank lending and business cycles in South Africa. Consistentwith theory, overall evidence suggesting pro-cyclicality of bank lending isuncovered both at macro and micro levels. At macro level, bank lending andlending...

This article examines econometric relationships between bank lending and business cycle in South Africa. Two long-run economic relationships are hypothesized between total credit and the variables, namely, coincidental indicators, spread between lending and borrowing rates, money supply, stock...

The paper tests for mean reversion, that is, purchasing power parity (PPP), in the bilateral real exchange rate series of the South African rand against those of the dollar, the pound sterling, the euro and the yen, these being the currencies of the country's main trading partners. The relevance...