Posted on March 25, 2011
The Department of Economics, the South African Reserve Bank and Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) jointly hosted a workshop on Monetary Economics and Macroeconomic Modelling on 10 and 11 March 2011.
Posted on March 24, 2011
On 17 March 2011, Prof Steven Koch delivered his Inaugural Address. It was entitled: "A Tale of Two Samples: Observations and Counterfactuals for the Evaluation of Economic Policy".
Posted on March 22, 2011
Three UP students were finalists in the 2010 Nedbank and Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition. These students, Karlien Ferreira, Loren Koutsouvelis and Francois Stofberg, were among ten undergraduate finalists (chosen from over 200 national undergraduate
Posted on March 17, 2011
Roula Inglesi-Lotz, a PhD fellow at the Department of Economics, attended the workshop on the Gauteng Energy Efficiency and Climate Agency (GEECA), held at the University of Johannesburg on 9 March 2011.
Posted on March 09, 2011
Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala attended the 5th Annual Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development held in Marseilles, France from 19 - 21 January 2011.
Posted on March 09, 2011
Prof Jan van Heerden, together with Prof Mark Horridge and Louise Roos from Monash University in Melbourne, presented an Advanced CGE Modelling Course in Stellenbosch from 24 - 28 January 2011.
Posted on March 09, 2011
Prof Steve Koch delivered a paper at an ERSA Firm Workshop held in Ballito from 1 - 3 February 2011. The title of his talk was "The Semiparametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis of African Manufacturing Enterprises", based on research done and co-authored b
Posted on March 04, 2011
Mr Mandla Nkomfe, Gauteng MEC for Finance, and the University of Pretoria hosted a discussion of the 2011 provincial budget. Prof Niek Schoeman of the Department of Economics from the University of Pretoria analysed the budget and facilitated the discussi
Posted on March 03, 2011
Business as usual - no shocks, no gifts but fiscal discipline reason for concern
Posted on February 15, 2011
During the period October, November and December 2010, 8 papers were published by the staff members of the Department of Economics.
Posted on February 07, 2011
During November 2010 Prof Jan van Heerden of the Department of Economics visited the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) at Monash University in Melbourne.
Posted on February 07, 2011
Jacques Kibambe Ngoie was invited to conduct postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
Posted on February 07, 2011
As a recipient of a Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship for PhD research, Annari de Waal, a lecturer in the Department of Economics, visited the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge in the UK during the second half of 2010.
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".
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