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Monday 25 July 2022 12:00-13:00Sebastian Schuhmann (PhD Student, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Topic: "Drivers of Inclusive Development: An Empirical Investigation"
Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 221
Download: drffel-and-schuhmann-2022-what-i.pdf (1.2 MB), drffel-et-al.-2021-drivers-of-in.pdf (256 KB), schuhmann-presentation-25-july-2.pdf (1.5 MB)
Jesse Naidoo (University of Pretoria)
Topic: "Marginal Incentives for Birth Spacing"
Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Room 225
Prof Erik Stam (Professor of Strategy, Organization & Entrepreneurship | Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.))
Topic: "Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development: Theory and Practice"
Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225
Download: entrepreneurial-ecosystems-stell.pdf (2.4 MB)
Prof Qingxiu Bu (Associate professor at the University of Sussex)
Topic: "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Africa in the Decoupling between China and the West"
Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225
Professor Fernando García-barragán (Department of Economics and Finance, University of Guanajuato & Research Fellow: Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University)
Topic: "Bridging the Gap: Analyzing the Effectiveness of Government Investment Announcements and Materializations"
Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 221
Dr Richard Kima (Research fellow: UNU-WIDER)
Topic: "Estimating the macroeconomic costs of power outages in South Africa"
Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 221
Contact person: Carina Smit (carina@sun.ac.za)
Prof. Ole Wilms (Hamburg University)
Topic: "Asset Pricing with Disagreement about Climate Risks "
Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 221
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