The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) moved to an official inflation targeting regime in the February of 2000, with the sole aim of maintaining the CPIX inflation between a target-band of three to six percent. Against this backdrop, this thesis, over seven independent chapters with a common...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine intentional herding among institutional investors with a particular focus on the technology sector that was the driver of the “New Economy” in the USA during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Design/methodology/approach: Using data on...

We implement several Bayesian and classical models to forecast employment for eight sectors of the US economy. In addition to standard vector-autoregressive and Bayesian vector autoregressive models, we also include the information content of 143 additional monthly series in some models. Several...