This paper examines the behaviour of disaggregated output over the economic cycle in South Africa. Aggregate output and output of the economic sectors and industries were decomposed into their transitory and potential components. These components were then examined for comovement. The results of...

The study analyses comovement between the real effective exchange rate of South Africa and those of a sample of countries that include the world’s major economies as well as emerging and developing economies. The comovement is examined over the short and long term as well as pre and post the...

This paper analyses the leader followership in monetary policy coordination in South Africa, together with the Advanced, Developed and Emerging counties. The coordination of monetary policy in Advanced counties is examined in individual countries while such coordination in Developed and Emerging...

This paper analyses the leader followership phenomenon in monetary policy coordination in South Africa, the Advanced counties, Developed counties and Emerging counties. The coordination of monetary policy in Advanced counties is examined in individual countries while such coordination in...

This study analyses the relationship between the attributes of a selected set of the minerals companies and corporate governance in South Africa. This is achieved by comparing the corporate governance rating of companies in the minerals sector to that of the companies in the other sectors of the...

This paper examines the behaviour of disaggregated output over the economic cycle in South Africa. Aggregate output and output of the economic sectors and industries were decomposed into their transitory and potential components. These components were then examined for comovement. The results of...

This paper analyses the importance of competitiveness factors in international competitiveness ranking of South Africa. In particular, the paper investigates the odds in favour of an improved, as opposed to a deteriorated, Overall international competitiveness ranking due to a change in selected...

The study analyses comovement between the real effective exchange rate of South Africa and those of a sample of countries that include the world’s major economies as well as emerging and developing economies. The comovement is examined over the short and long term as well as pre and post the...

This paper analyses the role of monetary policy in targeting financial stress as opposed to the exchange rate in South Africa. This is achieved by augmenting the central bank's monetary policy reaction function with the composite indicator of financial stress and the nominal bilateral exchange...

This paper analyses the monetary policy reaction function pre and post the recent global financial crisis in South Africa. This is achieved by comparing the reaction of monetary policy to changes in the target variables that comprise the inflation rate, output gap and financial stress index pre...