Stellenbosch PhD Conference 2019

The Department of Economics and the Stellenbosch branch of the Economics Sociey of South Africa (ESSA) are proud to host the first ever Economics PhD Conference on 11-12 July 2019. The conference is an attempt to create a learning and research environment for economics PhD candidates registered at South African universities. The conference will bring together PhD candidates from different economics departments and provide them with the opportunity to present, discuss and receive feedback on their research. The learning and research environment created by the conference will facilitate network building and research collaboration amongst the conference participants. Selected papers will have the further opportunity of being published on a special conference issue of Studies in Economics and Econometrics.

Download the programme for the conference here.

The conference will take place in the Van Der Sterr Bulding, room 2118, Entrance 1: Bosman street, Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch, 7599.

Conference particpants will be accommodated at Huis ten Bosch: 3 Hofmeyr Street, Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch, 7600

Contacts: Bokang Mpeta (bokangmpeta@sun.ac.za), Kholekile Malindi (kholekile@sun.ac.za)

Keynote speaker

The conference will feature a keynote presentation by Dr Nara Monkam:

Maximising domestic resource mobilisation in Africa: The Untapped potential of property taxes

Dr Nara Monkam is the Director of Research at the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) since February 1, 2014. She was also a member of the Davis Tax Committee, appointed from 17 July 2013 to 27 March 2018 by the then Minister of Finance, Mr Pravin Gordhan, to reassess the South African tax system. Prior to joining the ATAF, she was the Deputy Director of the African Tax Institute (ATI) and a Senior Lecturer (2009-2014) in the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria in SA.

Dr Monkam holds a PhD degree in Economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta (USA) and both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Namur in Belgium. Her areas of expertise and research interests center mainly on public economics, domestic resource mobilization, tax policy and tax administration, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and sub-national government finance.