Business Cycles and Structural Change in South Africa : An Integrated View

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 Structure in Mediating the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the South African Business Cycle -- Part III - Key Drivers of the South African Business Cycle: A History of South Africa's Modern Business Cycle -- On the Estimation and Application of Structural Decompositions of the South African Business Cycle -- Part IV - Predicting the South African Business Cycle: Business Confidence and the Business Cycle in South Africa -- Assessing the 2013 and 2017 Business Cycle Turning Points Signalled by the SARB's Composite Leading Business Cycle Indicator -- Conclusions. .