Introduction -- Part I - Looking Back: What Do We Know About the South African Business Cycle? -- The South African Economy in the Twentieth Century -- Part II - The Financial Crisis and Its Impact on the Cycle: Business Cycle Recoveries - A Comparative View -- The Role of Institutional...

The paper investigates the price and income elasticity of gasoline (petrol), diesel and jet fuel demand in South Africa using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) models. We compare elasticity estimates for 1982Q1-2010Q4 with estimates for 1998Q1-2010Q4. Price and income elasticity estimates...

This book investigates the South African business cycle and its links to structural change in the economy. Against the backdrop of the democratic transition in 1994 and the global financial crisis, the authors study how business cycles in South Africa have changed and how cycles are related to...

This research note identifies the period when South African prices began to move in unison with those of the country's lead trading partner. We find that South African wheat prices started reflecting UK trends soon after the discovery of diamonds and gold in the interior of the country. The...