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Research (Maintenance)
TRADE Research, In 2021 TRADE members published 104 research articles in accredited journals, with a total research output of 65 article equivalents. , Subject Fields and Research Programmes, It is against the background of the research strengths, interests and outputs of the members of TRADE as well as the country’s national priorities, that the following five sub-research fields have been identified and implemented: [accordion collapsed], Economics, Macro-economics, Development Economics, Labour Economics, Gender and Feminist Economics, as well as applied Microeconomics and Econometrics, financial development and its linkages with economic growth, labour markets, industrial policy and issues of human capital, time use and other, applied microeconomic studies as well as issues of…, International Trade, Export promotion; import substitution; trade policy development; regional integration; export-led growth; competitiveness; international market analysis and selection; trade facilitation; global value chain analysis; digital trade; firm-level exports; policy analysis; international marketing and investment promotion., Risk Management, Financial markets, bank risk management and investment management. Several articles from this subject field have been published on financial markets (volatility), investment and portfolio management (valuation models, asset pricing, performance measures, risk tolerance, risk profiling), derivative instruments (financial and agricultural…, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural development, food security, competitiveness and sustainability, linking farmers to high-value markets, business plans and feasibility studies., Accounting, Financial management of risks and valuations, taxes (currently retirement tax and sin tax versus grants and COVID-29) and accounting education – specifically IT needs for accountancy professionals. [/accordion], Special Projects, Dr David Spies has done continued research since 2015 for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France) to provide data for the estimation of the Producer Support Estimate (PSE) for South Africa for the annual edition of the organisation's monitoring and evaluation reports. Drs Ernst Idsardi and David Spies completed a…https://commerce.nwu.ac.za/trade/team-maintenance