• An examination of the perception of variations in the adoption of the national framework for municipal indigent policies 

  Kuhlengisa, Impi Rungano; Masiya, Tyanai; Lubinga, Stellah N.; Maramura, Tafadzwa Clementine (EnPress Publisher, 2024-11-25)

  PURPOSE : This study examined the variations in the adoption of the National Framework for Municipal Indigent Policies in different municipal categories across South Africa. The goal was to contribute towards the strengthening ...
• A news-based economic policy uncertainty index for Nigeria 

  Salisu, Afees A.; Salisu, Sulaiman; Salisu, Subair (Springer, 2024-10)

  In this study, we develop the first daily news-based Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index for Nigeria, which was previously not covered in recent EPU indices. The need to track economic uncertainties in Nigeria becomes ...
• Forecasting international financial stress : the role of climate risks 

  Del Fava, Santino; Gupta, Rangan; Pierdzioch, Christian; Rognone, Lavinia (Elsevier, 2024-04)

  We study the predictive value of climate risks for subsequent financial stress in a sample of daily data running from October 2006 to December 2022 of thirteen countries, which include China, ten European Union (EU) ...
• Research on extended external reporting assurance : an update on recent developments 

  Venter, Elmar Retief; Krasodomska, Joanna (Wiley, 2024-06)

  We review the recent literature on the assurance of Extended External Reporting published since the review published in 2021 in the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting. Our review includes 50 ...
• Profit shifting from Nigeria to Europe : the impact on human rights 

  Etter-Phoya, Rachel; Murray, Stuart; Hall, Stephen George; Masiya, Michael; O'Hare, Bernadette (Public Library of Science, 2025-03)

  The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone is entitled to economic and social rights essential to survive and thrive (Articles 25 and 26) and everyone is entitled to a social and international ...
• Policymaking in periods of structural changes and structural breaks : rolling windows revisited 

  Giannellis, Nikolaos; Hall, Stephen George; Kouretas, Georgios P.; Tavlas, George S.; Wang, Yongli (Wiley, 2025-04)

  Early studies that used rolling windows found it to be a useful forecasting technique. These studies were, by-and-large, based on pre-2000 data, which were nonstationary. Subsequent work, based on stationary data from the ...
• Fast two-stage variational Bayesian approach to estimating panel spatial autoregressive models with unrestricted spatial weights matrices 

  Gefang, Deborah; Hall, Stephen George; Tavlas, George S. (Taylor and Francis, 2025)

  We propose a fast two-stage variational Bayesian (VB) algorithm to estimate unrestricted panel spatial autoregressive models. Using Dirichlet–Laplace shrinkage priors, we uncover the spatial relationships between cross-sectional ...
• Does one size fit all? The country-specific effects of ECB monetary policy 

  Gefang, Deborah; Hall, Stephen George; Tavlas, George S.; Wang, Yongli (Elsevier, 2025-06)

  We investigate the way that a change in the ECB's monetary policy affects the members of the euro area in terms of the main macroeconomic aggregates – including inflation and output. Our data set consists of sixteen countries ...
• The journal and the quest for epistemic justice 

  Dadze-Arthur, Abena; Mangai, Mary S. (Wiley, 2024-10)

  Recognising the growing interconnectivity of academic publishing with larger socio-political shifts, this article charts the increasing momentum behind the push for greater epistemic diversity in academic journals. Our ...
• Can AIDS education reduce HIV stigma? Evidence from Zimbabwe 

  Njokwe, Getrude; Kijima, Yoko (Taylor and Francis, 2025-01)

  HIV stigma remains a barrier to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. This study uses Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey data to examine how education reduces HIV stigma, focusing on two key ...
• Information sharing and information quality in Southern African humanitarian supply chains during disaster response 

  De Wet, Marni; Niemann, Wesley; Schutte, Carla (AOSIS, 2025-03)

  ORIENTATION : A global increase in the frequency and severity of disasters has underscored the critical need for more effective humanitarian supply chains (HSCs) and the optimisation of humanitarian organisation (HO) ...
• Evaluating the power of social media influencing mainstream media social representations of migrants in South African townships 

  Sitto‑Kaunda, Karabo (Springer, 2024-06)

  The relationship between mainstream media and social media for news reporting is a complex one. Mainstream media news is relied on as a source of information on key social issues, carrying and reproducing the social ...
• Psychological needs and financial well-being : the role of consumer spending self-control 

  Du Plessis, Laureane; Jordaan, Yolanda; Van der Westhuizen, Liezl-Marie (Springer, 2024-12)

  Financial service providers continually strive to develop innovative financial products and services that address customer needs and aim to improve customers’ financial well-being. Previous studies discovered that ...
• The red flags of financial statement fraud 

  Du Toit, Elda (Emerald, 2024-03)

  PURPOSE – According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, financial statement fraud represents the smallest amount of fraud cases but results in the greatest monetary loss. The researcher previously investigated ...
• A red flag checklist for cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes 

  Heyman, Christiaan Ernst (Riaan) (Emerald, 2024-04)

  PURPOSE – This study aims to, firstly, develop a red flag checklist for cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes and, secondly, to test this red flag checklist against publicly available marketing material for Mirror Trading International ...
• Handmade clothing consumption as a means of self-expression 

  Van der Westhuizen, Liezl-Marie; Kuhn, Stefanie Wilhelmina (Emerald, 2024-10)

  PURPOSE – This study examines handmade clothing consumption as a means of self-expression by exploring the interrelationships between consumers’ self-expression, brand love and word of mouth. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH ...
• Critical conversations in MOS : a dual-interview on the continuing struggles against anti-Blackness and racial capitalism 

  Nkomo, Stella M., 1947-; Naya, Patricia Tiimah (Sage, 2025-03)

  Our special issue critically engages with anti-Blackness in MOS by approaching it from a structural analysis of racial capitalism and how this has been developed by radical Black feminist thought. Our call for papers invited ...
• How can vice-chancellor compensation be justified? Evidence from New Zealand 

  Houqe, Muhammad Nurul; Marasigan, Alva; De Villiers, Charl Johannes (Wiley, 2025)

  Vice-chancellors' salaries have been criticised in the media and examined by scholars. Therefore, we examine whether vice-chancellors' compensation can be explained by performance, job size/complexity, and/or the incumbent's ...
• Who saves more, the naive or the sophisticated agent? 

  Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; Zimper, Alexander (Elsevier, 2024-07)

  This paper studies discrete time finite horizon life-cycle models with arbitrary discount functions and iso-elastic per period power utility with concavity parameter. We distinguish between the savings behavior of a ...
• Is sustainable banking initiative good business for the banks? A comparative pre and post adoption study 

  Nwaigwe, Nwakanma Godwin; Matemane, Matwale Reon (Creative Publishing House, 2024)

  This paper contributes to the business case for sustainable development literature by examining whether sustainable banking (SB) initiatives translate to good business for the banks. To achieve this, we ...

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