13 articles in this issue
Gideon Els
AbstractNo abstract available.
Pierre Erasmus
AbstractThe relevance of the dividend decision has been a contentious issue in corporate finance research, partly due to contradictory views reported in existing literature. When faced with the dividend decision, management should understand its impact on... see more
Sharon Smulders,Gelishan Naidoo
AbstractSmall businesses have the potential to grow the economy, generate jobs and reduce poverty, but they face many constraints including high tax compliance costs and burdens. A comparison of the findings and recommendations made in small business tax ... see more
Temitope Leshoro
AbstractSouth Africa is classified as one of the wealthiest countries in Africa, yet half of its population lives below the poverty line and over a quarter of its labour force is unemployed. Foreign aid was one of the major sources of capital for the coun... see more
Ferdi Botha,Carl de Beer
AbstractThis study explores whether South African national sporting performance can influence investors in such a way that it has the ability to impact on market returns. Using standard event study methodology, this study determines the constant mean retu... see more
Yolanda Stander,Daniël Marais,Ilse Botha
AbstractA new approach is proposed to identify trading opportunities in the equity market by using the information contained in the bivariate dependence structure of two equities. The relationships between the equity pairs are modelled with bivariate copu... see more
Lenny Naidoo,Mihalis Chasomeris
AbstractThe South African forestry industry contributes to the economic growth of the country by the planting of trees and the processing of these trees for the export market. The purpose of this study is to examine the trends in wood chip exports from th... see more
Lukas van Wyk,Melville Saayman,Riaan Rossouw
AbstractThis article focuses on an economic assessment of the target obtained in South Africa regarding the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) applying both SAM and CGE models. Since both models have advantages and disadvantages, tourism economists... see more
Duncan Palmer,Niel Krige
AbstractThis study summarises the development of a model to determine an individual’s adjusted life expectancy based on his Real Age. The model incorporates aspects such as gender, residing province, income, HIV status, ethnic background, weight, exercise... see more
AbstractThis study addresses the question of how long a given amount of capital will be able to fund a living annuitant if the following five parameters are known: expected retirement duration (i.e. years between date of retirement and date of death), ret... see more
Derick Blaauw,Anmar Pretorius
AbstractThe study of subjective well-being is no longer on the periphery of study in the field of economics. A significant body of literature exists on the determinants of subjective well-being in the developed world. This paper uses the first wave of the... see more
Mornay Roberts-Lombard,Lauren Strachan,Leon du Plessis
AbstractThe primary objective of this article is to compare the influence of trust, commitment, and conflict-handling on customer loyalty through the intervening role of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in the life and non-life insurance sector of S... see more
Suzette Viviers,Colin Firer
AbstractThis research addresses a gap in the literature on responsible investing (RI) in South Africa by studying the risk-adjusted performance of RI unit trusts available to retail investors. The Sharpe, Sortino and Upside-potential ratios for 16 RI unit... see more