Workshop on non-linear Economietrics

Posted on October 22, 2010

As part of an initiative taken by Prof. Nicola Viegi (the South African Reserve Bank Chair of Monetary Economics), to invite well-known scholars working at the frontier of the discipline, the Department of Economics hosted a four day workshop on non-linea

ERSA Public Economics Workshop

Posted on October 21, 2010

The third Public Economics Workshop of Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) was held on the Hatfield campus of the University of Pretoria during September.

Top achievers honoured

Posted on September 20, 2010

The Department of Economics held its annual prize giving ceremony on the 5th of August at Eduardo Villa Museum, on the main campus of the University of Pretoria. Top achievers in economics and econometrics, from first year up to PhD, were honoured for the

Workshop attended

Posted on September 10, 2010

Mr Jan van Rensburg and Miss Hayley Reynolds from the Department of Economics attended an intensive 8 day workshop in August at the University of the Witwatersrand's Department of Public Health on "The Burden of Disease and Health Economic Evaluations".

Miss Roula Inglesi participates in international conference

Posted on August 19, 2010

Roula Inglesi, PhD Fellow in the Department of Economics presented a paper, in collaboration with Prof James Blignaut, titled 'Sectoral electricity intensity levels in South Africa: 1995 to 2006' at the 5th Annual International Symposium on Economic Theor

Summer School in Applied Macroeconometrics

Posted on August 10, 2010

Annari de Waal, a lecturer in the Department of Economics, attended the Summer School in Applied Macroeconometrics (Programming in Matlab) at the Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods of the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy from 26 to 30 J

Workshop held at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business

Posted on August 04, 2010

Mr Gauthier Kashalala recently attended the Institute on Computational Economics (ICE 2010) workshop held at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

UP students currently in New York for first leg of exchange with Fordham

Posted on June 03, 2010

BCom(Hons) Economics and BCom(Hons) Econometrics students from the University of Pretoria are participating in the Emerging Markets and Country Risk Analysis Program that is part of a UP/Fordham institutional agreement. These students are currently in New