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

Tuks student wins Budget Speech competition.

Posted on February 22, 2010

Ntuthuko Tsokodibane, an undergraduate student from the University of Pretoria, was awarded the first prize of R30 000 as this year's winner in the 37th Nedbank & Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition.

Dr Nara Monkam

Posted on December 01, 2009

In August 2009, Nara Monkam joined the University of Pretoria as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics. She has also been appointed as the Deputy Director of the African Tax Institute (ATI).

Prof Jan van Heerden

Posted on November 30, 2009

The Department of Economics would like to thank Prof Jan van Heerden for his 12 year stewardship of the department. He has presided over the department as it has moved up in both the local and the international ranking.

Dr Manoel Bittencourt joins UP Economics Department

Posted on November 30, 2009

After a spell at the University of Cape Town, Manoel has recently joined UP Economics Department. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. from the University of Bristol, U.K., and a B.Sc. from the Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil.