“For the public benefit”? Railways in the British Cape Colony

A Herranz-Loncán, J Fourie - European Review of Economic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Built largely to support the early mining industry, the Cape Colony's railway substantially
reduced the cost of transport to the interior and account for 22–25 percent of the increase in …

Economic and political factors in infrastructure investment: evidence from railroads and roads in Africa 1960–2015

R Jedwab, A Storeygard - Economic History of Developing Regions, 2019 - journals.co.za
Transport investment has played an important role in the economic development of many
countries. Starting from a low base, African countries have recently initiated several massive …

The great divergence in South Africa: Population and wealth dynamics over two centuries

D Von Fintel, J Fourie - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Does wealth persist over time, despite the disruptions of historical shocks like colonisation?
This paper shows that South Africa experienced a reversal of fortunes after the arrival of …

The influence of extreme events such as Brexit and Covid-19 on equity markets

EM Iglesias - Journal of Policy Modeling, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article first, we show that the result that the PIIGS group had the largest negative
unadjusted and abnormal returns on the day following the Brexit Referendum is robust to …

Occupational Mobility during South Africa's Industrial Take‐Off

J Cilliers, J Fourie - South African Journal of Economics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the absence of historical income or education data, the change in occupations over time
can be used as a measure of mobility. This paper investigates intergenerational …

Public sector growth in the British cape colony: Evidence from new data on expenditure and foreign debt, 1830‐1910

A Gwaindepi, J Fourie - South African Journal of Economics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The public expenditure shifts that took place following the discovery of diamonds and gold
during the second half of the nineteenth century had far‐reaching consequences for …

Volatility behaviour of bitcoin as a digital asset: evidence of shock transmission dynamics from the south African financial markets

TJ Gopane - Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital …, 2022 - search.informit.org
The objective of this study is to use the South African financial markets (Johannesburg Stock
Exchange or JSE and USD/ZAR) as a case study to understand the volatility spillover …

What do we know about the South African business cycle?

WH Boshoff, SA Du Plessis - Business Cycles and Structural Change in …, 2020 - Springer
A significant amount of macroeconomic research on the South African business cycle has
appeared since the late 1990s, mostly with the turning point cycles identified by the South …

An assessment of inter-market volatility and shock dynamics of bitcoin as a digital asset

TJ Gopane - International Conference on Digital Economy, 2021 - Springer
The objective of this study is to understand the volatility and spillover dynamics of Bitcoin as
a digital asset in relation to stock and foreign exchange markets using the South African …

19. Yüzyıl Güney Afrika İktisat Tarihi

NC Temizer - Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler …, 2023 - dergipark.org.tr
Güney Afrika ekonomisi çeşitli aşamalardan geçmiştir. Öncelikle Hollandalı'lar geçen
gemilere yiyecek temin etmek amacı ile adaya gelmişlerdir. Sonrasında Ümit Burnu'nun …