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Friday, April 11, 2008
Regional Monetary Policy Forum meetings in Gauteng
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will be hosting the first round of regional Monetary Policy Forum (MPF) meetings in May 2008.
Monetary policy has an impact on everybody. The main objective of the MPF meetings is to enhance the transparency of the Bank’s monetary policy decision-making process and accountability to the public. The meetings provide a platform for public discussions on monetary policy and general economic developments.
The Bank targets civic and community organisations, academic institutions, professional fraternities, the labour movement, the business community, Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises, national and provincial governments and legislatures, and general members of the public who have an interest in economic developments.
For bookings please contact the following people:
Gauteng
13 May 2008
Yolanda Padayachee
Te;: (012) 313 3195
Gauteng
13 May 2008
Yolanda Padayachee
Te;: (012) 313 3195
Statement of the Monetary Policy Committee - 10 April
Issued by Mr T T Mboweni, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank
Introduction
The South African economy continues to respond to the less accommodative monetary policy stance. Domestic expenditure is responding to our current policy settings. Various high frequency and survey data point to the economy growing at a rate below potential, but nevertheless underpinned to some extent by strong investment expenditure by the private sector and public corporations.
The inflation outlook is being influenced by a series of supply-side shocks emanating from the international oil and food prices which are posing challenges for inflation-targeting countries in general. Domestically, there is evidence of generalised price pressures and the prospect of further substantial electricity price increases will also delay the return to within the inflation target range. In the light of these developments, inflation expectations have deteriorated.
Recent developments in inflation
CPIX inflation has maintained its upward trend, reaching 9,4 per cent in February 2008. Petrol and food prices were again the main drivers of inflation and increased at year-on-year rates of 29,5 per cent and 14,3 per cent respectively. If food and energy prices were excluded, CPIX inflation would have measured 5,6 per cent. Further impetus to inflation came from the change in methodology for calculating clothing and footwear prices. Whereas clothing and footwear prices were previously shown to have declined persistently since October 2003, these prices increased at year-on-year rates of 7,9 per cent and 8,4 per cent in January and February 2008 respectively. Year-on-year producer price inflation measured 11,3 per cent in February compared to 10,4 per cent in January. Agricultural food prices increased at a year-on-year rate of 23,5 per cent in February, while manufactured food prices increased by 20,9 per cent.
For the full version please click here.
Introduction
The South African economy continues to respond to the less accommodative monetary policy stance. Domestic expenditure is responding to our current policy settings. Various high frequency and survey data point to the economy growing at a rate below potential, but nevertheless underpinned to some extent by strong investment expenditure by the private sector and public corporations.
The inflation outlook is being influenced by a series of supply-side shocks emanating from the international oil and food prices which are posing challenges for inflation-targeting countries in general. Domestically, there is evidence of generalised price pressures and the prospect of further substantial electricity price increases will also delay the return to within the inflation target range. In the light of these developments, inflation expectations have deteriorated.
Recent developments in inflation
CPIX inflation has maintained its upward trend, reaching 9,4 per cent in February 2008. Petrol and food prices were again the main drivers of inflation and increased at year-on-year rates of 29,5 per cent and 14,3 per cent respectively. If food and energy prices were excluded, CPIX inflation would have measured 5,6 per cent. Further impetus to inflation came from the change in methodology for calculating clothing and footwear prices. Whereas clothing and footwear prices were previously shown to have declined persistently since October 2003, these prices increased at year-on-year rates of 7,9 per cent and 8,4 per cent in January and February 2008 respectively. Year-on-year producer price inflation measured 11,3 per cent in February compared to 10,4 per cent in January. Agricultural food prices increased at a year-on-year rate of 23,5 per cent in February, while manufactured food prices increased by 20,9 per cent.
For the full version please click here.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
New feature of blog
Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com
I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.
Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and choose opt-out.
I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.
Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and choose opt-out.
New interface for JSTOR
JSTOR has recently revamped their interface, added new features and updated existing ones:
New features:
MyJSTOR
"MyJSTOR" is the first step in providing greater personal customization for users throughout the site. With this first release, users can:
- manage citations over time by saving them to a MyJSTOR account, where they can be stored indefinitely.
- Users will need to create an account in order to save or send citations, as well as to save them to bibliographic software. Remember this if you use RefWorks
- accept JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use once, rather than being prompted to respond with each article print or download
See also: Tutorials, MyJSTOR Help
Searching JSTOR
Basic Search
Basic searches, which search the full-text of all journals, can be entered directly from the home page by authorized users. Basic searches can be limited by discipline.
Advanced Search
Searches can be limited by selecting discipline(s) or specific journal titles, or by directly entering a specific title into the form.
Proximity search is now available in the Advanced Search form, using NEAR 5, NEAR 10, NEAR 25 operators in the Boolean pull-down menus.
Basic and Advanced Searches
Searches from an individual session are saved, and they can be rerun from a drop down menu at the bottom of each of these search forms.
Users are able to search for both the singular and plural versions of a word by adding an ampersand (&) to the end of the singular form of the word. Plurals now identify both regular (cat/cats) and irregular (knife/knives) plural forms.
Users have the option to apply stemming to their search by appending the "#" character at the end of their search term, e.g., "operate#".
The "Images in JSTOR" and "Images in ARTstor" tabs appear in the results from all search forms.
Search Results
The "search within these results" feature allows users to run a new search that restricts the content being searched to the results of their most recent search.
See: Searching Help
Article Page Viewing
Thumbnail images of articles make it easier to see articles at a glance and to select pages within articles.
Simplified Printing and Viewing of Article PDF Files
JSTOR now offers articles in a single, improved format of PDF for printing.
The PDF versions of articles provide bookmarks for easier navigation, both throughout the article as well as the entire issue.
NOTE: JPRINT, the printing application created specifically for printing JSTOR files, is no longer available or supported.
See: Printing Help
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Top 25 Hottest Articles - ScienceDirect
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
October - December 2007
Every 3 months ScienceDirect distributes a list of the Top 25 Hottest articles published with in a specific subject area. Here is the newest list available for Economics, Econometrics & Finance for the time period: Oct - Dec 2007.
(For some reason Accounting articles are grouped with Business & Management - for the list of hottest articles that include Accounting please click here.)
Asymmetric stock market volatility and the cyclical behavior of expected returns • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 446-478 Mele, A.
Productivity-based asset pricing: Theory and evidence • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 405-445 Balvers, R.J.; Huang, D.
Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality? • Article World Development, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 April 2004, Pages 567-589 Wade, R.H. Cited by Scopus (48)
Australian gold exploration 1976-2003 • Article Resources Policy, Volume 30, Issue 1, 1 March 2005, Pages 29-37 Huleatt, M.B.; Jaques, A.L.Cited by Scopus (3)
Market efficiency, long-term returns, and behavioral finance • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 49, Issue 3, 1 September 1998, Pages 283-306 Fama, E.F.Cited by Scopus (366)
Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 60, Issue 2-3, 1 May 2001, Pages 187-243 Graham, J.R.; Harvey, C.R.Cited by Scopus (187)
Exploration and discovery of Australia's copper, nickel, lead and zinc resources 1976-2005 • Article Resources Policy, Volume 30, Issue 3, 1 September 2005, pages 168-185 Jaques, A.L.; Huleatt, M.B.; Ratajkoski, M.; Towner, R.R.Cited by Scopus (1)
Information asymmetry, corporate disclosure, and the capital markets: A review of the empirical disclosure literature • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 405-440 Healy, P.M.; Palepu, K.G.Cited by Scopus (150)
The two sides of proximity in industrial clusters: The trade-off between process and product innovation • Article Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 63, Issue 1, 1 January 2008, Pages 146-162 Callois, J.M.
Investor protection and corporate governance • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1-2, 1 January 2000, Pages 3-27 La Porta, R.; Lopez-de-Silanes, F.; Shleifer, A.; Vishny, R.Cited by Scopus (271)
Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 1, 1 October 2007, Pages 1-39 Doidge, C.; Andrew Karolyi, G.; Stulz, R.M.Cited by Scopus (1)
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, 1 September 2007, Pages 74-115
Zhang, I.X.
Private equity, leveraged buyouts and governance • Article Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 September 2007, Pages 439-460 Cumming, D.; Siegel, D.S.; Wright, M.
The curse of natural resources • Article European Economic Review, Volume 45, Issue 4-6, 1 May 2001, Pages 827-838 Sachs, J.D.; Warner, A.M.Cited by Scopus (100)
Strategy, performance measurement techniques and information technology of the firm and their links to organizational performance • Article Management Accounting Research, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2007, Pages 343-366 Hyvonen, J.Cited by Scopus (2)
Journal of Health Economics, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1 March 2003, Pages 151-185 DiMasi, J.A.; Hansen, R.W.; Grabowski, H.G.Cited by Scopus (490)
Energy Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, 1 March 2008, Pages 249-270 Galetovic, A.; Palma-Behnke, R.
How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth? • Article Journal of International Economics, Volume 45, Issue 1, 1 June 1998, Pages 115-135 Borensztein, E.; De Gregorio, J.; Lee, J.-W.Cited by Scopus (238)
Capital markets research in accounting • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 105-231 Kothari, S.P.Cited by Scopus (125)
Monitoring: Which institutions matter? • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 279-305 Chen, X.; Harford, J.; Li, K.
A study on motivating employees'learning commitment in the post-downsizing era: Job satisfaction perspective • Article Journal of World Business, Volume 42, Issue 2, 1 June 2007, Pages 157-169 Tsai, P.C.F.; Yen, Y.F.; Huang, L.C.; Huang, I.C.Cited by Scopus (1)
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument • Article Journal of Development Economics, Volume 84, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 755-776 Easterly, W.Cited by Scopus (1)
World Development, Volume 31, Issue 4, 1 April 2003, Pages 667-683 Milanovic, B.Cited by Scopus (40)
Performance measurement impacts on management and leadership: Perspectives of management and employees • Article International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 110, Issue 1-2, 1 October 2007, Pages 39-51 Ukko, J.; Tenhunen,J.; Rantanen, H.
Asymmetric timeliness of earnings, market-to-book and conservatism in financial reporting • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, 1 September 2007, Pages 2-31 Roychowdhury, S.; Watts, R.L.
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