This paper assesses the determinants of capital flow volatility in the BRICS economies by differentiating between foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio capital flow volatilities. Moreover, the paper distinguishes between external variables, policy variables and control variables among...

This paper assesses the impact of systematic tail risk of stocks, defined as a stock’s exposure to market tail events, on the cross section returns of an emerging stock exchange, especially the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from January 2002 through June 2018. If stock market investors are...

This study investigates the link between the currency carry trade operations and asset markets in South Africa, namely the equity and bond markets. The carry trade operation examined in this paper involves two strategies, both of which use the South African rand as the investment currency, with...

This paper assesses the extent to which carry trade operations affect the performance of equity and bond markets in a target country, South Africa, by considering the US and euro area as the funding countries. A two- and three-factor capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is employed to assess...

This paper examines the effects of intraregional spillovers propagated by Nigeria and South Africa on real economic activities and interest rates movement in three African regional blocs (i.e., ECOWAS, SADC and CEMAC) employing the factor augmented VAR (FAVAR) modelling approach over the period...

This paper assesses the extent of exchange rate risk pricing in emerging and developed economies to infer whether this risk is systematic or unsystematic in these economies. The pricing of this risk is based on the two- and three-factor extended CAPM (capital asset pricing model). The US and...

This paper tests whether the PPP theory holds between trading partners, depending on the volume of trade and trade friction, such as exchange control. The test is applied between South Africa, a country that applies an exchange control policy, and its trading partners. The paper uses the...

With the global interconnectedness among markets, contagion literature has received immeasurable attention from researchers and academics. This study proposes a test to distinguish between interdependence, contagion and the decoupling hypothesis between advanced markets and emerging markets...

This paper investigates the effects of geographical distance on stock market correlations between countries within economic blocs. Specifically, this paper examines whether the degree of economic integration influences the nexus between geographical distance and stock market correlation. As the...

In light of the crucial contribution insurance firms make to global investment, this paper examines the extent of systemic risks facing emerging market insurance, with a particular focus on South Africa, one of the African continent's most prominent emerging economies. Contrary to past studies,...