Research outputs 2025


  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). BRICS economies: Assessing the influence of economic policy uncertainty and fiscal consolidation on government debt and economic growth. Millennial Asia.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). Breaking the inflation ceiling: Analysing monetary policy responses to inflation breaches in South Africa. Scientific African.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). Cryptocurrency responses to U.S. monetary policy shocks: A data-driven exploration of price and volatility patterns. American Economist.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). Evaluating government debt thresholds and fiscal consolidation: Insights from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Macroeconomic Dynamics.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). Investigating the dynamic impact of monetary policy on household debt in South Africa: Evidence from a rolling vector error correction model. Review of Economics.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). Is money supply endogenous? A Markov-switch exploration in the zero lower bound interest rate in the USA. Review of Economics.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). Net lending shocks and inflation in South Africa: A sectoral analysis. Economic Research – Ekonomska Istraživanja.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). Safeguarding economic stability: The interplay of fiscal dominance and monetary policy in South Africa. African Journal of Economic and Management Studies.

  • Buthelezi, E.M., Petlele, O. (2025). Shocks of government bonds and yield impact economic growth in South Africa. Cogent Economics & Finance.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2025). Assessing the impact of fiscal consolidation uncertainty on South Africa’s foreign debt. Journal of Economic Studies.

  • Duvenhage, C.J., Keyser, J.N. (2025). The impact of financial literacy on savings in South Africa. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science.

    Kosiba, J.P.B. & Coetzee, J. (2025). Satellite fans’ team identification, emotional attachment, sports team brand equity, and travel intention: Social identity and attachment perspective. Journal of Sport & Tourism.

  • Makuvaza, L., Chamboko, R., Guvuriro, S. and Coetzee, J. (2025). Modelling the recovery of distressed firms on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange: A Cox proportional hazard model approach. Cogent Economics & Finance.

  • Makuvaza, L., Chamboko, R., Guvuriro, S. and Coetzee, J. (2025). The role of intermediate financial distress events and business cycles in stock market delisting: Evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Cogent Economics & Finance.

  • Monamodi, N. (2025). Forecasting the South African tax-to-GDP ratio series utilising seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average and artificial neural networks models. Economics and Finance Letters.

  • Mudiriza, G. (2025). The impact of climate-smart agriculture practices on household vulnerability to climate change: Evidence from Zimbabwe. Climate and Development.

  • Murwirapachena, G. (2025). Rural citizen satisfaction with drinking water supply: Public policy imperatives for a South African municipality. Journal of Public Affairs.

  • Nwosu, C.O. (2025). Assessing the determinants of uptake and hesitancy in accessing COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria: A scoping review. Frontiers in Health Services. 

  •  Nwosu, C.O. (2025). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Ethiopia: A scoping review for equitable vaccine access. Frontiers in Health Services.

  • Nwosu, C.O. (2025). Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines in Botswana: A scoping review. Frontiers in Health Services.

  • Nwosu, C.O. (2025). Lessons learnt in the response to COVID-19 in Mozambique: Enabling readiness for the next pandemic. Frontiers in Health Services.

  • Nwosu, C.O. (2025). Narratives of climate adaptation and linkages to psychosocial and nutritional health in a Zimbabwean rural community. World Development Sustainability.

  • Pool, A. (2025). Local job multipliers from mining in South Africa’s intermediate city municipalities. The Extractive Industries and Society.

  • Turok, I.N. (2025). Attracting and retaining talent: The policies of South African metros. Urban Forum.

  • Turok, I.N. (2025). Creative destruction or just a reshuffle? Turnover among businesses and jobs in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics.

  • Turok, I.N. (2025). Does moving between cities pay off? Economic outcomes for South Africa’s intercity migrants. Development Southern Africa.

  • Turok, I.N. (2025). Small-scale rental housing in Southern Africa: From neglect to nurture? Housing and Society.

  • Turok, I.N. (2025). Striking disparities in employment across South Africa: Evidence from a new spatial database. Development Southern Africa.

  • Van Niekerk, A.J. (2025). West to East: A new global economy in the making? Springer Books.

  • Van Niekerk, A.J. (2025). Inklusiewe groei, ’n integrale deel van ’n inklusiewe ekonomie. LitNet Akademies.

  • Van der Merwe, I. (2025). Factors that affected the performance of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 2010–2022. Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie.

  • Vengesai, E. (2025). The governance of vice-chancellor pay–performance nexus in South African universities. Southern African Journal of Accountability and Auditing Research.

Research outputs 2024 


  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2024). Navigating global uncertainty: Examining the effect of geopolitical risks on cryptocurrency prices and volatility in a Markov-Switching Vector Autoregressive model. International Economic Journal.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2024). Reserves’ influence on South Africa’s total domestic debt: Evidence from GFECRA. Cogent Economics & Finance.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2024). South African inflation response to fiscal policy shocks. Journal of Applied Economics.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. (2024). Transformative pathways: Understanding economic growth in Africa using the African Transformation Index. Cogent Economics & Finance.

  • Buthelezi, E.M. and Mlangeni, T.B. (2024). Monetary policy and inflation expectations: Impact and causal analysis of heterogeneous economic agents’ expectations in South Africa. Journal of Applied Economics.

  • Chamboko, R. (2024). Digital financial services adoption: A retrospective time-to-event analysis approach. Financial Innovation.

  • Guvuriro, S. (2024). Social discounting in a symmetric giving and taking frame: An artifactual field experiment with young South African adults. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

  • Katuka, B. and Mudzingiri, C. (2024). Fiscal space, governance quality and inclusive growth: Evidence from Africa. Journal of Financial Economic Policy.

  • Katuka, B., Mudzingiri, C. and Jvrensburg, L. (2024). Examining the impact of bank cost efficiency on non-performing loans in a dollarised economy: Evidence from Zimbabwe. Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies.

  • Katuka, B., Mudzingiri, C. and Vengesai, E. (2024). Demystifying the role of governance quality and fiscal space on non-performing loans in Zimbabwe. Institutions and Economies.

  • Katuka, B., Mudzingiri, C. and Vengesai, E. (2024). Unravelling the loan growth threshold effect on non-performing loans during total dollarization in Zimbabwe. Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies.

  • Keyser, J.N. and Abdulla, M. (2024). The National Credit Act and macroeconomic variables in the context of over-indebtedness in South Africa. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science.

  • Mitter, C. (2024). Does national culture impact management control systems? A systematic literature review. Review of Managerial Science.

  • Monamodi, N. (2024). The impact of current account balance on economic growth in South Africa. Economies.

  • Monamodi, N. and Goliath, S. (2024). An empirical examination of South Africa’s public debt– economic growth nexus: The emergence of classical economists’ ideology. Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance.

  • Mudzingiri, C. (2024). The effect of financial literacy confidence on financial risk preference confidence: A lab experiment approach. SAGE Open. 

  • Mudzingiri, C. and Sunge, R. (2024). The COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery: The mediating role of governance – a global perspective. Heliyon.

  • Mudzingiri, C., Sunge, R., Jana, G.R. & Mudiriza, G. (2024). The effect of local climatic conditions on household consumption: A case study of South Africa. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

  • Nwosu, C.O. (2024). Health indicators and poor health dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology.

  • Pool, A. (2024). Child stunting in South Africa: Urban premium or penalty? Journal of Urban Affairs.

  • Sunge, R. (2024). Analysing the drivers of ecological footprint in Africa with machine learning algorithms. Environmental Impact Assessment Review.

  • Sunge, R. (2024). Analysing the response of CO₂ emissions to the business cycle in a developing economy: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa. Frontiers in Environmental Science.

  • Turok, I.N. (2024). Inclusionary housing policy in cities of the Global South: Navigating a path between continuity and disruption. Housing Policy Debate.

  • Turok, I.N. and Visagie, J.P. (2024). Social housing and upward mobility in South Africa: An assessment of household outcomes. Urban Forum.

  • Vengesai, E. (2024). External shocks’ effects on the co-movements of currency and stock returns in three Southern African Development Community states. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences.

  • Vengesai, E. (2024). Risk management during the COVID-19 crisis: Insights from an exploratory case study of medium-sized family businesses. Journal of Management Control.

  • Vengesai, E. and Mloyi, K. (2024). The impact of global risk aversion and domestic macroeconomic factors on the dynamic conditional correlations of South African financial markets. Cogent Economics & Finance.

  • Vengesai, E. (2024). Unearthing financial wisdom: Exploring the factors shaping financial literacy among agribusiness entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Development.

  • Van Niekerk, A.J. (2024). Economic inclusion: Green finance and the SDGs. Sustainability.

Research outputs 2023 


  • Gambe, T., Turok, I. and Visagie, J. (2023) ‘The trajectories of urbanisation in Southern Africa: A comparative analysis’, Habitat International, 132.
  • Scholvin, S., Turok, I., Visagie, J., Diez, J. R. & Breul, M. (2023). Beyond offshoring: tradable services and regional markets in the Global South. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/00167223.2023.2214171 
  • Nwosu, C. 2023. Mental distress, COVID19 vaccine distrust and vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: A causal mediation regression analysis, PLOS ONE, Vol: 1 (3), pp. 1-14.
  • Nwosu, C. 2023. Is socioeconomic inequality in antenatal care coverage widening or reducing between- and within-socioeconomic groups? A case of 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, SSM – Population Health, Vol: 23, 101402, pp. 1-27.
  • Nwosu, C. 2023. Assessing Psychosocial Health Impacts of Climate Adaptation: A Critical Review, New Solutions, Vol: 33(1), pp. 37 – 50.
  • Nwosu, C. 2023. Service Delivery Improvement Plans in South Africa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Journal of Public Administration, Vol: 58 (1), pp. 77-97.
  • Coetzee, J and Raubenheimer, L. 2023. Value preferences for rewards and loyalty programs of South African financial institutions. International Journal of Economic and Business, Vol. 26(4).
  • Masinde, M and Coetzee, J. 2023. Modelling research productivity of university researchers using research incentives to crowd-in motivation, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol: 72 (5), pp. 1509-1530.
  • Kotze, J, Coetzee, J and Niemann, R. 2023. Views of Digital Transformation at a South African Higher Education Institution to Enable Effective Administrative Systems, International Business Conference, Conference Proceedings.
  • Meggersee A and Guvuriro S (In press) Economic sustainability of small mining towns: A case study in South Africa. Sage Open (in press) WoS Q2.
  • Buthelezi, E.M. Impact of Inflation in Different States of Unemployment: Evidence with the Phillips Curve in South Africa from 2008 to 2022.
  • Buthelezi, E.M. Impact of Money Supply in Different States of Inflation and Economic Growth in South Africa. Economies 2023, 11, 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies11020064
  • Buthelezi, E.M. 2023. Dynamic macroeconomic economic uncertainty in different regimes of economic growth in the presence of fiscal consolidation in South Africa from 1994 to 2022, Auth Economies (ISSN 2227-7099).
  • Eugene Msizi Buthelezi; Phocenah Nyatanga. 2023. Impact of fiscal consolidation on domestic government debt: evidence of time-varying elasticity CAPB in South Africa from 1979 to 2022, Economies (ISSN 2227-7099) on 10 March 2023.
  • Eugene Msizi Buthelezi, 2023, Impact of government expenditure on economic growth in different states in South Africa, Cogent Economics and Finance.
  • Eugene Msizi Buthelezi, 2023, Examining the Dynamic Nexus of Monetary and Fiscal Policy in South Africa: Evidence from Key Macroeconomic Economic, Journal of Economics and Financial Analysis, Vol:7, No:1, pp. 13-42.
  • Eugene Buthelezi, 2023, “BRICS Economies: Assessing the Influence of Economic Policy Uncertainty and Fiscal Consolidation on Government Debt and Economic Growth” Millennial Asia Journal.
  • Eugene Msizi Buthelezi (2023) Exploring the relationship between exchange rate misalignment uncertainty and economic growth in South Africa, Cogent Economics & Finance, 11:2, 2267920, DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2023.2267920
  • Keyser, JN .2023. Economic Policies in South Africa since 1994 – Leaning to the Left or Right? International Journal of Business and Management Studies, Volume 04; Issue no 11, ISSN 2694-1430 (Print), ISSN 2694-1449 (Online) \DOI: 10.56734/ijbms
  • Vengesai, E. (2023). Unveiling the Role of Investment Tangibility on Financial Leverage: Insights from African-Listed Firms. Risks, 11(11), 192.
  • Katuka, B., Mudzingiri, C. and Vengesai, E., 2023. The effects of non-performing loans on bank stability and economic performance in Zimbabwe. Asian Economic and Financial Review, 13(6), pp.393-405.
  • Gumbo L, Vengesai E and Marimuthu F (2023). Financial Literacy Operationalization Model For Agribusiness Entrepreneurs In Zimbabwe. Issues in Social and Environmental accounting, 2(2023), pp113-135.
  • Katuka, B., Mudzingiri, C. and Vengesai, E., 2023. Demystifying the role of governance quality and fiscal space on nonperforming loans in Zimbabwe, Institutions and Economies (IE) journal 16(2). pp 1-29.
  • Keyser, JN .2023. Economic Policies in South Africa since 1994 – Leaning to the Left or Right International Journal of Business and Management Studies, Volume 04; Issue no 11, ISSN 2694-1430 (Print), ISSN 2694-1449 (Online) \DOI: 10.56734/ijbms
  • Gumbo, L., Marimuthu, F., and Vengesai, E. (2023). Financial literacy competencies of women in agribusiness and their financial experiences during a pandemic. The Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 15(1), 11.

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