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This paper investigates the exchange rate pass-through to producer prices in South African industries from 1970 to 2016. Empirical results from panel contemporaneous techniques indicate that exchange rate pass-through to South African producer prices is contingent on the currency choice with substantial variations across industries. Particularly, Rand variations with the currency of Germany, Japan, and the US pose greater influence on the producer prices of South African industries whilst the Chinese and Indian currency variations have the least bearing. The mining and quarrying; the manufacturing and the construction industries are among the sectors that are most exposed to the exchange rate fluctuations. The less pass-through effect occurs in three sectors, namely trade, catering and accommodation services; electricity, gas and water; and transport, storage and communication. This possibly indicates their limited exposure to external shocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates empirically the impact of inward FDI on host firm Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance in South Africa. The data used for the study was sourced from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the Public Investment Corporation Governance Survey index for a period of 3 years ranging from 2011 to 2013. The study employs Panel Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) and Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) to estimate the effect of FDI on CSR and thus addresses contemporaneous cross-correlations across the panel cross-sections as well as endogeneity between FDI and CSR. It is established from the study that FDI has a strong positive impact on firm CSR performance. When CSR is decomposed further into its major components, FDI positively impacts social and environmental components but has no impact on governance components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]