Publications

by members of

School of Economic and Business Sciences
Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa

Working papers

2009

1. Hunt, Karin & Rankin, Neil A. & Schöer, Volker & Nthuli, Miracle & Sebastiao, Claire, 2009. "Blind Admission? The ability of NSC maths to signal competence in university commerce courses as compared to the former SC Higher Grade maths," MPRA Paper 18075, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2008

1. Creamer, Kenneth & Rankin, Neil A., 2008. "Price setting in South Africa 2001-2007 - stylised facts using consumer price micro data," MPRA Paper 16905, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Edwards, Lawrence & Rankin, Neil A. & Schöer, Volker, 2008. "South African exporting firms: What do we know and what should we know?," MPRA Paper 16906, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
3. Fiandeiro, M. Fatima & Rankin, Neil A., 2008. "Trade liberalisation and wages in South African manufacturing," MPRA Paper 17066, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Garzarelli, Giampaolo & Limam, Yasmina Reem & Thomassen, Bjørn, 2007. "Open Source Software and Economic Growth: A Classical Division of Labor Perspective," MPRA Paper 3849, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Foss, Nicolai & Garzarelli, Giampaolo, 2006. "Institutions as Knowledge Capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann’s Interpretative Institutionalism," MPRA Paper 3087, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Garzarelli, Giampaolo, 2006. "The Organizational Approach of Capability Theory: A Review Essay," MPRA Paper 4362, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
3. Garzarelli, Giampaolo & Thomassen, Bjørn, 2006. "Is State Building the Road to World Order?," MPRA Paper 9600, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
4. Vivian, Robert William, 2006. "Considering the Pasadena "Paradox"," MPRA Paper 5232, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Jun 2006. [Downloadable!]
5. Neil Rankin, 2006. "The Regulatory Environment and SMMEs. Evidence from South African Firm Level Data," Working Papers 9605, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Giampaolo Garzarelli, 2005. "Old and New Theories of Fiscal Federalism, Organizational Design Problems, and Tiebout," Public Economics 0509009, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
2. Giampaolo Garzarelli, 2005. "Cognition, Incentives, and Public Governance:Laboratory Federalism from the Organizational Viewpoint," Public Economics 0512013, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. Giampaolo GARZARELLI, 2003. "Open Source Software and the Economics of Organization," Industrial Organization 0304003, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
2. Giampaolo Garzarelli & Roberto Galoppini, 2003. "Capability Coordination in Modular Organization: Voluntary FS/OSS Production and the Case of Debian GNU/Linux," Industrial Organization 0312005, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
3. Giampaolo GARZARELLI & Yasmina Reem LIMAM, 2003. "Knowledge, Coordination, and Fiscal Federalism: An Organizational Perspective," Public Economics 0304001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
4. Vivian, Robert William, 2003. "Solving Daniel Bernoulli's St Petersburg Paradox: The Paradox which is not and never was," MPRA Paper 5233, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2003. [Downloadable!]

2001

1. Rankin, Neil A., 2001. "The export behaviour of South African manufacturing firms," MPRA Paper 16904, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2008

1. Richard Langlois & Giampaolo Garzarelli, 2008. "Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration," Industry & Innovation, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 125-143. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Giampaolo Garzarelli, 2008. "The Organizational Approach of Capability Theory," Review of Political Economy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 443-453. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Giampaolo Garzarelli, 2008. "The division of labor and voluntary production," Economía, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (IIES). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela, vol. 33(25), pages 47-60, january-j. [Downloadable!]
4. Christopher Malikane & Willi Semmler, 2008. "Asset Prices, Output And Monetary Policy In A Small Open Economy," Metroeconomica, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 59(4), pages 666-686, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2007

1. Nicolai J. Foss & Giampaolo Garzarelli, 2007. "Institutions as knowledge capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann's interpretative institutionalism," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 31(5), pages 789-804, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Ojah, Kalu, 2007. "Costs, valuation, and long-term operating effects of global strategic alliances," Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 69-90. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Christopher Malikane, 2007. "Income Distribution and Monetary Policy in Small Open Economies," Icfai University Journal of Monetary Economics, Icfai Press, vol. 0(1), pages 6-18, February.

2006

1. G. Garzarelli, 2006. "Dealing with Terrorism – Stick or Carrot?," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 337-340, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Garzarelli, Giampaolo, 2006. "Bruce Caldwell, B. Hayek's challenge: An intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 22(4), pages 1019-1022, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Volker Schöer & Murray Leibbrandt, 2006. "Determinants Of Job Search Strategies: Evidence From The Khayelitsha/Mitchell'S Plain Survey," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 74(4), pages 702-724, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Robert william Vivian, 2006. "Equality And Personal Income Tax - The Classical Economists And The Katz Commission," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 74(1), pages 79-109, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Neil Rankin & Måns Söderbom & Francis Teal, 2006. "Exporting from Manufacturing Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of African Economies, Oxford University Press, vol. 15(4), pages 671-687, December.

2005

1. Kalu Ojah & Justo Manrique, 2005. "Determinants of corporate debt structure in a privately dominated debt market: a study of the Spanish capital market," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 15(7), pages 455-468, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. J. Manrique & K. Ojah, 2004. "Credits and non-interest rate determinants of loan demand: a Spanish case study," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 36(8), pages 781-791, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Justo Manrique & Kalu Ojah, 2003. "The demand for housing in Spain: an endogenous switching regression analysis," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 35(3), pages 323-336, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. K Ojah & L Monplaisir, 2003. "Investors' valuation of global product design and development," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan Journals, vol. 34(5), pages 457-472, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Robert W Vivian, 2003. "Considering Samuelson's 'fallacy of the Law of Large Numbers', Without Utility," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 71(2), pages 191-197, 06. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Lawrence Edwards & Volker Schoer, 2002. "Measures Of Competitiveness: A Dynamic Approach To South Africa'S Trade Performance In The 1990s," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 70(6), pages 1008-1046, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1999

1. Ojah, Kalu & Karemera, David, 1999. "Random Walks and Market Efficiency Tests of Latin American Emerging Equity Markets: A Revisit," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 34(2), pages 57-72, May.
2. Karemera, David & Ojah, Kalu & Cole, John A, 1999. " Random Walks and Market Efficiency Tests: Evidence from Emerging Equity Markets," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 13(2), pages 171-88, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. P.A. Black & N. Rankin, 1998. "On the Cost - Increasing Effects of the New Labour Laws in South Africa," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 66(4), pages 215-220, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1997

1. Ojah, Kalu & Seitz, Neil E & Rawashdeh, Mufeed, 1997. "Why Manufacture Offshore? An Empirical Analysis of Valuation Effects," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 32(3), pages 477-99, August.

1991

1. J.U. Villiers & R.W. Vivian, 1991. "Insurance by Large Corporations: The Melamet Commission," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 59(4), pages 241-249, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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