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Aggregate investment in South Africa: a model with implications for political reform

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Investment in South Africa is evaluated using a structural macroeconomic model in which private sector expenditure on traded and nontraded capital goods is permitted to vary with relative output prices, cost of factors or production and indices of political and economic uncertainty. Investment levels are influenced by changes in the prices of goods and factors. Growth in market interest rates decreases investment demand and does not affect aggregate level.

Administration of General Economic Programs, Foreign Investment Regulations, Economic policy, Macroeconomics, Foreign investment laws

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Manufacturing entry in Greece, 1982-1988: did sectoral policy work?

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Manufacturing entry in Greece during the 1980s was greatly influenced by profit and growth expectations. Time had a negative impact with entry, reducing the sizes and numbers of entrants. The sectoral policy developed to support investment in favored sectors had a differentiated effect on entrant numbers and sizes.

Greece, Industrial concentration

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Measuring and modelling investors' risk in South Africa

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This model is a framework to measure the effect of uncertainty on investments in manufacturing and mining in South Africa. Factors affecting and uncertainty include marginal cost of capital, marginal product, and industrial unrest. The amount of loss resulting from uncertainty is calculated for manufacturing.

South Africa, Mining & Extractive Industries, Mining, Statistical Data Included, Models, Usage, Risk assessment, Evaluation, Finance, Mining industry, Uncertainty

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