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Nicola ViegiProfessor and Head of Department
South African Reserve Bank Chair in Monetary Policy Studies PhD (Strathclyde)
Research Interests: Monetary economics, economic policy theory, monetary fiscal policy interdependence, political economy of monetary institutions, economic policy under uncertainty assets prices and monetary policy, regional integration in Africa, political economy of government debt, the economics of colonisation and decolonisation, macromodelling for emerging countries, economic growth and institutions. |
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Heinrich BohlmannAssociate Professor
PhD (Monash)
Research Interests: Computable General Equilibrium Modelling; Development Economics; Labour Economics |
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Martin BreitenbachAssociate Professor
PhD (Vista)
Research Interests: International Trade; International Finance; International Trade and Environment; Economic Efficiency ORCID ID: 0000-0003-
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Carolyn ChisadzaAssociate Professor
PhD (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, Political Economy
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Matthew ClanceAssociate Professor
PhD (Clemson)
Research Interests: International Trade, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 6911 email: [email protected] Personal website |
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Yoseph GetachewProfessor
PhD (Maastricht)
Research Interests: Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Development, Income and Wealth Inequality
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Rangan GuptaProfessor
PhD (Connecticut)
Research Interests: Monetary Theory and Policy; Business Cycles; Time Series Econometrics
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Roula Inglesi-LotzProfessor
PhD (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Energy economics, Environmental economics, Economic growth and development, Time series econometrics |
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Andre JordaanProfessor
DCom (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Development Economics
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3462 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae |
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Steve KochProfessor
PhD (Penn State)
Research Interests: Health Economics; Labour Economics; Competition Policy and Industrial Organization Microeconometrics
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 5285 Fax: +27 (0)86 6242 444 email: [email protected] Personal website |
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Tumisang LoateSenior Lecturer
PhD (Pretoria) Research Interests: Macroeconomics; Monetary and fiscal policy
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3463
email: [email protected]
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Mpoifeng MolefinyaneLecturer
PhD (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Decision Theory |
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Nara MonkamAssociate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
PhD (Georgia State)
Research Interests: Public Economics; Domestic Resource Mobilization; Tax Policy and Tax Administration (TADAT Assessor); Fiscal Decentralization; Property Taxation
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3461
email: [email protected]
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Ruthira NaraidooProfessor
PhD (Cardiff)
Research Interests: Applied Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Political Economics, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Time Series Analysis
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Nicky NichollsAssociate Professor
PhD (Pretoria)
Research Interests: applied microeconomics; behavioural and experimental economics |
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Dumakude NxumaloLecturer
MCom (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Industrial Organisation, Competition Economics
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4506
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Daniel OpolotSenior Lecturer
PhD (Maastricht)
Research Interests: Game Theory, Social and Economic Networks, Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics
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Renee van EydenProfessor
DCom (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Applied Econometrics; Macroeconomic Modelling
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Eleni YitbarekAssociate Professor
PhD (Maastricht)
Research Interests: Measurement of poverty, intergenerational mobility, applied econometrics, and impact evaluation.
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Alexander ZimperProfessor
Dr. rer. pol. (Mannheim)
Research Interests: Decision Theory, Game Theory, General Equilibrium Theory under Asymmetric Information, Asset Pricing, Financial Markets and Banking Regulation, Bayesian Learning under Ambiguity, Bounded Rationality
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Affiliated Faculty (Joint With African Tax Institute) |
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Dirk ScholtzSenior Lecturer
MPhil (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Tax Incentives; Tax Harmonisation; Taxation for Development |
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Visiting, Emeritus, or Extraordinary Academic Staff |
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Manoel BittencourtExtraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria
PhD (Bristol)
Research Interests: Growth and Development Economics
email: [email protected]
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Augustin FosuExtraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria
Professor, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana
PhD (Northwestern)
Research Interests: Economic Development (e.g., institutions, growth, and human development; debt, growth, and optimal public sector allocation; trade, growth and development; and growth, inequality and poverty)
email: [email protected]
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Jan van HeerdenProfessor Emeritus
PhD (Rice), HED (Unisa)
Research Interests: Microeconomics; Computable General Equilibrium Modelling Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3451 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae |
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Postdoctoral Fellows |
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Taiwo AfinowiPostdoctoral Fellow
PhD (Witwatersrand) Research Interests: Built Environment, Urban Renewal and Regeneration, Global Development Agendas, Urban Planning, Sustainable Cities, Digital Twin Cities, and African Cities.
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Akingbade AimolaPostdoctoral Fellow
PhD (UNISA) Research Interests: Public Finance and Policy, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Risk Management, Environmental Economics, Sovereign/Public debt Management.
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Vincent DadamPostdoctoral Fellow
PhD (Pretoria) Research Interests: Macro modelling of the labour market; Monetary economics.
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Alanda VenterPostdoctoral Fellow
PhD (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Energy Economics; Environmental Economics; Political Economy; Developmental Economics
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4207
email: [email protected]
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Tendai ZawairaPostdoctoral Fellow
PhD (Pretoria)
Research Interests: Gender, Development Economics
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 6914
email: [email protected]
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Administrative Staff |
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Sindi MagwazaDepartmental Administrator: Postgraduate Studies
Assistant to the Head of Department
BAdmin(Hons) Public Management (Pretoria)
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Wandile XabaAdministrator
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 2413
Email: [email protected]
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