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8:00 - 9:00
Registration
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PARALLEL SESSIONS 3A - 3C 9:00 - 10:45
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| 3A: Foreign Direct
Investment & Trade |
3B: Exchange Rates
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Malefane Determinants Of Foreign
Direct Inverstment In Lesotho: Evidence From Cointegration And Error Correction Modelling
Romm-Fedderke Foreign Direct Investment in South Africa: Determinants and Effects
Sichei-Harmse Determinants of South Africa-US Intra-Industry Trade in Services:
Bootstrap Panel Data Analysis
Soubaya Has COMESA enhanced trade and foreign direct investment since its implementation
Chair: Soubaya |
Bonga-Bonga Modelling the rand-dollar
future spot rate
Makhetha Does Long Run Purchasing Power Parity (Ppp) Hold Within The
Southern African Customs Union (Sacu)?
Pretorius Modelling conditional volatility in the Rand/ Dollar
Chair: Makhetha |
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3C: Political Economics, Crime and
Power |
Ayogu The structure of
power and the regional allocation of public capital
Du Rand The Macro-economic impact of crime on economic activity: a GMM System Panel data
study
Seck An Analytical Framework for the New Partnership for Africa's Development
Chair: Ayogu |
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10.30 - 11.00 TEA
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11.00 - 12.30
Keynote II:
Duncan Thomas(UCLA)
Chair: Jan van Heerden |
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12.30 - 14.00
Lunch |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS 4A - 4C 14:00 -
15:45 |
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4A: Household
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4B: Labour Markets
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Burger-Van der Berg-Nieftagodien
Consumption Patterns of South Africa's Rising Black
Middle-class: Correcting for Measurement Errors
Koster-Botha Changes in the determinants of savings in South Africa: Evidence from panel data
Koch South African Households: Are Expenditure Patterns Almost Ideal?
Posel-Fairburn-Lund Labour migration and households: a reconsideration of the effects of the
social pension on labour supply in South Africa
Chair: Posel |
Alby Unequal Rent Sharing
and Wage Determination In the Formal Ivoirian Economy
Havemann Understanding the demand for labour in South Africa: A casualty of the
Pagan curve?
Hinks Why are people not working? Job Search and evidence of supply-side constraints
Jumah Immigrant remittance flows and the economy of Ghana: A non-linear analysis
Chair: Jumah |
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4C: Business Cycles/Finance
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Botha-Greyling-Marais Identifying the financial cycle in South Africa
DuPlessis-Smit Reconsidering the business cycle and stabilisation policies in South Africa
Jordaan-Moolman Can Leading Business Cycle Indicators Predict the Direction of the South African
Commercial Share Price Index?
Chair: Moolman |
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15:45 - 16:00
TEA |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS 5A - 5C 16:00 - 17:45 |
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to improve the capacity for econometric modelling on the African continent...
