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Kind stock market financial data
Producer various
Coverage various
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Iliffe (1999) Johannesburg Stock Exchange company control figures, 1987 (via Jones, ed., Financial enterprise) 1987 Provides the headline concentration figure of conglomerate control of listed companies.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2008) South African ten-year bond real returns 1996-2006 1996-2006 Sets the discount factor δ = .97 (r = .03) for the welfare calculations.
Obi (2006) Reserve Bank / Standard Bank historical interest rates (Standard Bank Intranet, 2005) 1955-2003 Fresh interest-rate data for the full period, checked against Van Schalkwyk's series and deflated to give real interest on debt.
Wagner et al. (1984) I/B/E/S (Institutional Brokers Estimate System), Lynch, Jones & Ryan c. 1984 Average number of analyst estimates per company shows replacement firms get less research coverage.
Wagner et al. (1984) Institutional holdings of S&P 500 stocks c. 1984 Quantifies how much institutional money in top-rated stocks would be displaced by divestment.