Outputs (59)

Key recovery: Inert and public (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We propose a public key infrastructure framework, inspired by modern distributed cryptocurrencies, that allows for tunable key escrow, where the availability of key escrow is only provided under strict conditions and enforced through cryptographic me... Read More about Key recovery: Inert and public.

The impact of monetary policy on gold price dynamics (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Ever since the collapse of the Bretton-Woods system, gold has retained its function as an important monetary commodity (Baur and Lucey, 2010), and continues to provide important inflation forecasting information to monetary polic... Read More about The impact of monetary policy on gold price dynamics.

Bitcoin unchained (2017)
Journal Article

Bitcoin’s distributed ledger is an innovative way of solving the double spending problem in a decentralised system. However, it causes incompressible transaction delays and incentivises consolidation of mining power. We ask, is it possible to elimina... Read More about Bitcoin unchained.

The insurance case of corporate social responsibility (CSR): Is ambivalence the key (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ambivalence is the underlying mechanism in the CSR insurance case

Modelling the sectoral allocation of labour in open economy models (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Canadian Economics Association Indivisible labour is not the only type of non-convexity affecting labour supply decisions. Another type of non-convexity arises in economies with sectors whenever individuals can work in only one sector at a tim... Read More about Modelling the sectoral allocation of labour in open economy models.

The standard narrative on history of macroeconomics: Central banks and DSGE models (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How do macroeconomists write the history of their own discipline? This article provides a careful reconstruction of the history of macroeconomics
told by the practitioners working today in the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) approach.... Read More about The standard narrative on history of macroeconomics: Central banks and DSGE models.

Financialisation and the financial and economic crisis - the case of South Africa (2017)
Journal Article

The Nature and Form of Financialisation in South Africa is conditioned by industrial and financial developments before 1994. This is an edited abridgement from a paper produced by the Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FE... Read More about Financialisation and the financial and economic crisis - the case of South Africa.

A phenomenographic study of students' perceptions of accounting (2017)
Thesis

Accounting, as a complex social phenomenon, is experienced by individuals in a multitude of ways. A changing professional business landscape coupled with the transforming role of the accountant highlights the need for a broader focus in accounting ed... Read More about A phenomenographic study of students' perceptions of accounting.

Care and the Neoliberal Individual (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics. Abstract: This article explores two conflicting ethical systems: neoliberalism and institutionalism. Neoliberalism’s foundations support an overarching ethic of individual a... Read More about Care and the Neoliberal Individual.

Did firm age, experience, and access to finance count? SME performance after the global financial crisis (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This paper examines the relationships between firm age and entrepreneurs experience on SME performance after the 2008/09 global financial crisis. We find that in general the crisis had a long-lasting scarrin... Read More about Did firm age, experience, and access to finance count? SME performance after the global financial crisis.