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Research Outputs (Finance, Risk Management and Banking): Recent submissions

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Education investment dimension of international personal remittances in Colombia.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus Interpress, 2015)

The study investigated the relationship between personal international remittances received and gross enrolment ratio in Colombia. There are three hypotheses explaining the relationship between personal international ...
Capital structure and profitability. A case of JSE listed companies.

Mashavave, Faith; Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2015)

The research aims to find out the relationship between capital structure and profitability focusing on firms listed on the Johannesburg stock exchange in South Africa. Past research on this topic excluded the Johannesburg ...
Is the market size hypothesis relevant for Botswana? Vector error correction framework.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2015)

The current study investigated the relevancy of the market size hypothesis of FDI in Botswana in Botswana using the VECM approach with data ranging from 1975 to 2013. The study used FDI net inflows (% of GDP) as a measure ...
The nexus between stock market development and economic growth.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2016)

The study investigated the relationship between stock market development and economic growth in Belgium using ARDL approach with annual time series data from 1988 to 2012. Real GDP per capita was used as a proxy for economic ...
FDI location and exchange rates, is there really a relationship between the two?

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (2015)

The exchange rate led foreign direct investment (FDI), FDI led exchange rates and feedback effect hypotheses summarise the literature around the nature of the relationship between FDI and exchange rates. So many authors ...
Trade openness and FDI in Zimbabwe: what does data tell us?

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2015)

The study focus on the causal relation between trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Zimbabwe. The choice for the country came about due to the consideration that such an area on trade openness and FDI has ...
Personal remittances, banking sector development and economic growth in Israel: a trivariate causality test.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2015)

The current study investigates the causal relationship between personal remittances and economic growth using Israel time series data from 1975 to 2011. In a bid to contain the omission-of-variable bias not addressed in ...
Stock market and foreign direct investment in Zimbabwe.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2014)

This study investigates the causality relationship between stock market and foreign direct investment. The subject has been contentious in recent years with three theoretical rationales emerging. The first being that FDI ...
Banking sector development and foreign direct investment, a case of Botswana.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2014)

The study investigates if there is a causality relationship between banking sector development and FDI inflows in Botswana. Though quite a number of authors have written on the subject, there appears to be no consensus on ...
Is Wagner's theory relevant in explaining health expenditure in Botswana?

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (virtus InterPress, 2014)

This study tests the relevance of the Wagner’s theory in explaining the health expenditure in Botswana. There is no consensus yet when it comes to the causality relationship between health expenditure and economy. At the ...
Military expenditure and the economy of Zimbabwe.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2014)

This study examines the causal relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in Zimbabwe. The causality relationship between government military expenditure and economic growth has so far received attention ...
A dynamic causality test of exports and economic growth in Zimbabwe

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa; Odhiambo, N.M. (InderscienceLtd, 2012)

In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between export growth and economic growth. The causal relationship between exports and economic growth has been a subject of extensive debate in recent years. There are ...
Investigating the Relationship between Financial Development, Trade Openness and Economic Growth in Argentina: A Multivariate Causality Framework.

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (2017)

This study explored the interrelationships between financial development, economic growth and trade openness in Argentina using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) with annual time series data (1994 to 2014). The ...
Is there a relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Zimbabwe?

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2013)

This paper investigated the causality relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Zimbabwe using a bi-variate time series framework for the period 1980 to 2011. The causality relationship between ...
Nature and characteristics of informal migrant remittance transfer channels: empirical study of remittances from South Africa to Zimbabwe

Chisasa, Joseph (Business Perspectives, 2014)

Migrants often make remittances to their own country without adhering to the formal financial system of the host coun-try. The study reported in this article attempted to describe the prevalence of sending informal remittances ...
The finance-growth nexus in South Africa’s agricultural sector: a structural equation modeling approach.

Chisasa, Joseph (Business Perspectives, 2014)

This paper examines the relationship between finance and growth in the agricultural sector in South Africa using a structural equation model (SEM) approach. A total of 500 smallholder farmers were surveyed in the Mpumalanga ...
A diagnosis of rural agricultural credit markets in South Africa: empirical evidence from North West and Mpumalanga province.

Chisasa, Joseph (Business Perspectives, 2014)

Access to credit by smallholder farmers in South Africa still remains a confounding problem. The aim of this paper is to identify the major sources of credit for smallholder farmers. A total of 362 smallholder farmers were ...
An empirical analysis of the interest rate-vehicle purchase decision nexus in South Africa.

Chisasa, Joseph; Dlamini, Winnie (Clute Institute., 2013)

The domestic passenger car market has witnessed substantial growth in South Africa. At the same time, bank repossessions and black-listing of defaulting borrowers have increased in sympathy. This paper empirically examines ...
Survival strategies for SMES in hyperinflationary environments: lessons from SMES in Harare Central Business District.

Chisasa, Joseph (Virtus Interpress, 2013)

Lack of credit led to the failure of many Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Zimbabwe from 2005 to 2009 when inflation peaked at 231 million percent. The article attempted to determine how SMEs survived during this ...
Pension fund regulation: unintended consequences of foreign investment restrictions in an emerging market economy.

Erasmus, Coert; van Huyssteen, Johan (Virtus Interpress, 2016)

Retirement savings allow investors to earn income after retirement by saving while being part of the workforce. Retirement savings comprise the largest portion of retirement savings and should be safeguarded by effective ...

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