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Showing 1 to 20 of 235 for “"Rand"”.
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Regimes change and exchange rate dynamics : the rand
The rand has since the mid-1980s maintained a long swing of decline that reversed in 2002 for a brief while; resuming the swing shortly thereafter. In contrast to these fairly predictable fluctuations, the rand’s short run movements are increasingly volatile and seemingly unpredictable. Anchored in …
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Factors that promote corporate entrepreneurship within the First Rand Bank
… that promote corporate entrepreneurship in First Rand Bank. The Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) developed by Hornsby, Kuratko and Zahra (2002) was used to measure corporate entrepreneurship (CE). The instrument contains 48 Likert-style questions that were believed to assess …
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Using foreign currencies to explain the nominal exchange rate of rand
The Rand-US Dollar exchange rate has been very volatile since the unification of the duo-exchange rate in 1995. Many researchers have successfully found some economic variables as the long-run determinants of Rand exchange rate. This paper tries to substitute those economic variables with some …
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Using foreign currencies to explain the nominal exchange rate of Rand
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The Rand currency monetary area : an option for de-dollarisation in Zimbabwe
… viability of Zimbabwe joining the South African Rand Common Monetary Area, as a means to transition out of utilising the US Dollar is the primary currency in use in the country. The choice of the South African Rand was based on South Africa being Zimbabwe's largest trading partner, and therefore …
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Predictability of the Dollar- Rand exchange rate using Taylor Rule fundamentals and commodity Prices.
… Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and a Random walk approach. The results from the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) show that the Random walk model outperforms both the Taylor rule and VECM models. This brings us to the conclusion that although commodity prices and interest rates may …
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Returning to the rand revolt: centering settler colonialism and racial capitalism in labour history
This study focuses on the Rand Revolt, a white mineworkers strike that occurred in 1922, as a lens into the white working class in the early 20th Century, Witwatersrand, South Africa. This strike is significant because the events surrounding its conclusion led to the co-optation of the white …
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The sedimentology, geochemistry and diagenesis of West Rand Group sediments in the Heidelberg area, Transvaal
This study deals with the West Rand Group (formally the Lower Division of the Witwatersrand System) sediments within an area of approximately 500 km east of Heidelberg. The aim of the study was to interpret from the stratigraphy, lithology, petrology and sedimentary structures, the type of …
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Forecasting the South African rand 's variance and covariance using conditional heteroskedastic and realized volatility models
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Shadow and Shade : an evaluation of buildings and space in the East Rand town of Springs in South Africa
In the period since apartheid ended and democracy was introduced into South Africa a complaint of many white people is that, while democracy is laudable, what is shocking is that in many cities the ‘white’ or ‘European’ heritage, and by this they mean the buildings, are being destroyed. I have …
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The impacts and conflicts associated with defunct gold tailings storage facilities in South Africa: A case study of Davidsonville, Central Rand
… The latter is a concern in the Witwatersrand goldfields of South Africa, where communities are located in close proximity to gold mining operations and/or both current and defunct tailings dumps. This research project was, therefore, aimed at developing a better understanding of the …
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Investigating strategies for involving host mining communities in mine closure planning: an integrated stakeholder engagement in the West Rand, South Africa
… activity. Thus, this research uses the West Rand area to enhance the understanding of the impacts of mine closure on host mining communities. This is done to recommend strategies that could potentially improve the integration of host mining communities into mine closure plans within the South …
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Regime change and weak form efficiency of South African foreign exchange markets
… affects return predictability. Samples of daily Rand/dollar. Rand/euro and Rand/sterling exchange rates for 1995 to 2005 were used. February 2000 was the date for a regime-shift and the sample is divided into two sample periods. By using the likelihood ratio test proposed in Dickey Fuller, I find …
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An empirical investigation of the relationship between the exchange rate and interest yields : a case study of South Africa
… analyses the relationship between the Dollar/Rand exchange rate and the interest yields rates in South Africa. It makes use of data available from 1998 through to 2010. Using statistical analysis of regression analysis and co integration, the study found that a positive correlation exists …
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Determinants of mortgage lending: a time series analysis from South Africa
… was further categorised by mortgage advances in rand value and volume and analysed using time series estimations techniques covering the period from Q4 2007 to Q4 2020. The study found a positive and significant long-term relationship between GDP on the proportion of mortgages advanced to low- …
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Choosing to win: how SOF can better select partners for capacity building
… employed to build capacity. This thesis uses two RAND reports—What Works Best When Building Partner Capacity and The RAND Security Cooperation Prioritization and Propensity Matching Tool, published in 2014, to assess which factors are most critical for SOF efforts to build partnership capacity. It …
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Konvergenz eines semidiskreten Verfahrens zu einem Modellproblem mit Kapillarrandbedingung
… von <br>Flüssigkeiten mit einem freien Kapillarrand. Dabei konzentrieren wir uns <br>auf die Probleme, die durch das Auftreten der Krümmung des freien Randes <br>in der Randbedingung entstehen. Es wird angenommen, der freie Rand sei als <br>Graph einer Funktion darstellbar. Ausgehend von einer …
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The Collision Of Romanticism And Modernism In Post-World War II American Cinema: A Theoretical Defense Of Intellectual History In The Undergraduate Classroom
… philosophers and public intellectuals, Ayn Rand became one of the most widely-read and controversial thinkers of the post-war era. Despite being most well-known for her philosophical novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Rand wrote numerous works of non-fiction including the 1971 …
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