Posted on February 07, 2011
Prof Steve Koch, head of the Department of Economics attended the American Economic Association Conference in Denver, Colorado, from January 6 to January 9, 2011.
Posted on November 26, 2010
Since signing a collaboration agreement between Fordham University in the USA and the University of Pretoria in 2007, a number of students from the Department of Economics at Fordham University annually spent four to six weeks with staff and students from
Posted on October 27, 2010
Ntuthuko Tsokodibane, a BCom Honours Econometrics student of the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, has won the Mandela-Rhodes Scholarship for 2011.
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
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.
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
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".
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
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
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
Posted on October 05, 2009
The University of Pretoria (UP) hosted 300 leading international economists who explored a raft of public policy and development issues at the 65th congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) that took place at the Cape Town Conventio
Posted on August 14, 2009
Rangan Gupta, a professor and lecturer in the department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been listed as one of the top 100 economists.
Posted on September 09, 2008
During the first week of September 2008, Prof Bill Mitchell visited the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on September 09, 2008
Prof Adams is visiting the Department of Economics this week (8-12 Sept 2008)
Posted on July 02, 2008
The CFA Institute Board of Governors has warded the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation to Marc Ground
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