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  • UP Professor elected as fellow of the prestigious Econometric Society

    Posted on October 20, 2023

    Professor Steven Koch of the Department of Economics has been elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society, an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. The Society was founded in 1930 and since its inception, 1 188 fellows have...

  • The Cost of Going Nowhere Slowly

    Posted on October 19, 2023

    Prof Heinrich Bohlmann, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, recently delivered his Presidential Address at the 2023 Economic Society of South Africa conference.

  • Advocating for human-centric energy justice: A call to action

    Posted on October 05, 2023

    Aditi Bansal, a global energy justice advocate who was the guest speaker at an event hosted by UP’s Energy Economics Unit, along with the US Embassy in SA, emphasised the importance of adopting a human-centric approach to climate and energy justice.

  • Outstanding academics shine at EMS Awards

    Posted on October 04, 2023

    The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) recently hosted its annual EMS Awards to celebrate the excellence of outstanding academic staff. The awards, which were held at the EMS Research Hub on the Hatfield Campus, honoured the academic excellence of staff in three categories, namely...

  • Making connections on the African continent with energy economics workshop

    Posted on September 10, 2023

    The University of Pretoria’s (UP’s) Energy Economics Unit in the Department of Economics hosted an energy economics and econometrics workshop at the beginning of August 2023. The event was organised by the Makerere University Business School (MUBS) and funded by the Norwegian...

  • Just energy transition is contentious but common ground is possible

    Posted on August 17, 2023

    Several areas of commonality came to light during a public lecture and panel debate held at the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Campus, UP's pan-African platform for collaborative research, on Friday, 4 August.

  • UP Economics researcher joins 2023 cohort of PEP Research Fellows

    Posted on August 17, 2023

    Dr Eleni Yitbarek, a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, has been awarded the 2023 Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Research Fellowship. The research and work undertaken by PEP through its programmes and thematic areas seeks to...

  • Third Annual UP-SU PhD Workshop in Economics Held

    Posted on July 21, 2023

    Close to 30 submissions were received this year. Of these, the workshop accepted eight papers by PhD students and postdocs from universities across the country, spanning a range of topics in health economics, macroeconomics, finance, and labour economics.

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