The presence of a predictable share price response to a surprise in announced
earnings by listed companies has been documented in US equity markets since
1968. This research investigated whether the presence of a positive ...
Marketing, as a discipline, is becoming increasingly business orientated with a
focus on internal profitability, growth and revenue projection being closely linked
to marketing activities and their impact on market ...
This dissertation analyses the market-consistent valuation of liabilities for
de¯ned-bene¯t pensions in payment. Models from the actuarial and ¯nan-
cial economics literature for valuation of in°ation options embedded ...
It is a prevailing view that South Africa under-invests in innovation. R&D spend is
consistently less than 1% of GDP, which is well below benchmarks set by
developed countries. The current research is concerned with R&D ...
The aim of the research is to develop a method and tools that facilitate the market-consistent valuation of a hypothetical portfolio of guaranteed-annuity options (GAOs). The fund underlying the GAOs carries a guaranteed ...
This research report investigates the finance and marketing perceptions of return on marketing investment (ROMI) in South Africa. Traditionally, at many organisations, marketing budgets have been determined using arbitrary ...
An increasing phenomenon in South Africa is hookah pipe or “hubbly bubbly” smoking among young adults. It is not uncommon to see groups of young people in restaurants, bars, cafes and campus corners puffing at hookah pipes ...
Limiting access to a company’s services or discouraging the demand coming
from certain customers is not an uncommon practice. Suppliers of services and
goods often select a target market that would provide a minimum ...
Guest house owners are often owner-managers whose resources of time and
money are extended to the limit. It is important that they market their
establishments wisely. The objective of this research was to investigate
...
A recession presents very difficult economic circumstances for a business in which to operate. At the same time the high value brands within an organisation are under severe pressure for their prices to be dropped in order ...
Consumers in South Africa are bombarded with an abundance of marketing messages on a daily basis. This information overload has resulted in consumers ignoring certain marketing communications and becoming confused as to ...
The use of distributors as a channel in the marketing of fast moving consumer
goods into the informal sector is a phenomenon that is of interest to
manufacturers, distributors themselves, retailers wholesalers and Spaza ...
A brief search on www.ams.org with the keyword “Markov operator” produces some
684 papers, the earliest of which dates back to 1959. This suggests that the term
“Markov operator” emerged around the 1950’s, clearly in the ...
In a series of papers by Wen-Chi Kuo, Coenraad Labuschagne and Bruce
Watson results of martingale theory were generalised to the abstract setting
of Riesz spaces. This thesis presents a survey of those results proved and ...
The profession of Psychology in post-apartheid South Africa has been dominated by women, despite attempts to address issues of equity, access and redress in recruitment and training. Certain obstacles to entering the ...
The past two decades have seen the rise of power sharing agreements as a means to end protracted civil wars. Following from the perceived success of these agreements, power sharing has become an important tool in the ...
This dissertation examines husbands and wives’ understandings of family planning and
communication processes. It examines family planning approval, knowledge of contraceptives
and motivations for contraceptive use by ...