The Department
Academic Staff
 | Sophia du Plessis Associate Professor and Chair Research interests: Institutional Economics, Experimental Economics Courses lectured:Economics 381 (Institutional Economics), Institutional Economics 771 |
 | Willem Boshoff Professor and Co-director of Centre for Competition Law and Economics Research interests: I specialize in competition policy and time series econometrics. Courses lectured:Economics 871: Econometrics, Intensive Course in Statistics for Graduate Students, Industrial Organisation |
 | Ronelle Burger Professor Research interests: Public Health and health policies; African countries; NPOs; Economics of nonprofit organisations; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty, Social Norms and Social Capital; Courses lectured:Advanced Development Economics; Health Economics |
 | Rulof Burger Professor Research interests: Micro-econometrics, Labour Economics, Microeconomics, Development Economics Courses lectured:Microeconomics (Honours & Masters); Advanced Econometrics (Graduate); Labour Economics (Graduate & third-year); |
 | Estian Calitz Emeritus Professor and Research Associate Research interests: Public Economics, Economic policy Courses lectured:Macroeconomics 871 |
 | Pierre de Villiers Emeritus Associate Professor Research interests: Mathematical methods and Programming, Microeconomics - Welfare Economics, State and Local Governments, Education Finance Courses lectured:Economics 214 (Microeconomics), Economics 388 (Management Economics), Mathematical Economics 771, Economics of Education 771 & 871 |
 | Hassan Essop Lecturer Research interests: Innovation and Technology, Local Economic Development, Public Economics, General. Courses lectured:Macroeconomics 318, Macroeconomics 214, Economics 381 (Public Economics) and Economics 288. |
 | Olivia Ezeobi Lecturer Research interests: Feminist Economics. Health Economics (Mental Health). Intersectionality of inequalities for working mothers. Courses lectured:Economics of Exclusion: Gender, Identity and Space, Economics 288, Economics 144 |
 | Johan Fourie Professor and director of Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past (LEAP) Research interests: Economic history Courses lectured:Economics 281 (Economic History), Economic History 771 (Honours) |
 | Hylton Hollander Extraordinary Associate Professor Research interests: International macro-finance | Financial frictions in macroeconomic models | Monetary theory & policy | Sovereign debt & fiscal policy | Financial (in)stability | Macroeconomics of distribution & growth Courses lectured:Current: International Finance 771/871; Monetary Economics 771/871 | Previous: Dynamic Economic Theory 871; Mathematical Economics 771; Economics 244/214/144 (Money, Macro, & Finance) |
 | Rachel Jafta Professor Research interests: International Trade, Industrial Organisation and Competition issues, Technological Change and R&D, Affirmative Action and Black economic Empowerment Courses lectured:Economics 244 (International Trade), Economics 281 (Development Economics), Economics 348 (Trade and Industrial Policy), Economics of Technological Change 771 |
 | Ada Jansen Professor and Vice Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences Research interests: Public Economics, Taxation. Courses lectured:Economics 381 (Public Economics), Public Economics 771 |
 | Nico Katzke Head of Portfolio Solutions (Satrix); Part-Time Lecturer Research interests: Published Research: orcid.org/0000-0003-1939-8939
Courses lectured:Financial Economics 771, Financial Econometrics 871, Applied Data Science for Economists |
 | Johann Kirsten Professor and Director of the Bureau for Economic Research |
 | Friedrich Kreuser Lecturer |
 | Calumet Links Lecturer Research interests: Economic History, Macroeconomics, Indigenous History, Indigenous Economics, Labour Economics, Quantitative text analysis. Courses lectured:Microeconomics 114, Macroeconomics 144, Economics 214 |
 | Guangling Liu Professor Research interests: Macroeconomics, Macro-Finance, Monetary Theory and Policy. Courses lectured:Macroeconomics 871, Advanced Time Series Econometrics 872, Mathematical Economics 771. |
 | Kholekile Malindi Lecturer Research interests: Labour economics;
Law and Economics (economic analysis of law) |
 | Michael Meyer Lecturer and Researcher Research interests: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: Firm Behaviour and Business Cycles, Macro-Finance Courses lectured:Postgraduate: Monetary Theory | Undergraduate: Monetary Economics 3rd year, Monetary Economics/International Finance 2nd year, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics 1st year. |
 | Eldridge Moses Senior Lecturer Research interests: Migration Studies, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Race and Class in South Africa |
 | Jesse Naidoo Senior Researcher Research interests: household finance, development, economics of the family, economic demography Courses lectured:microeconomic theory (771 and 871, postgraduate), labour economics (388, undergraduate) |
 | Mamello Nchake Senior Lecturer Research interests: International trade and economic development (regional integration and firm dynamics; trade and gender; digital technology and trade; agriculture and gender; regional value chains and industrial development). Courses lectured:International Trade 771/871; Microeconomics 771 |
 | Mosima Ngwenya Lecturer Research interests: Health economics Courses lectured:Economics 114; Economics 144 |
 | Liezl Nieuwoudt Junior Lecturer Research interests: Economics Education and Teaching of Economics, Analysis of Education, Educational Finance Courses lectured:Macroeconomics 144, Economics 244 (International Finance), Economics 288 (Economics for Humanities Students) |
 | Matthew Olckers Senior Researcher Research interests: household finance, development economics, social networks |
 | Monique Reid Extraordinary Associate Professor Research interests: Macroeconomic policy, Monetary economics, Financial economics Courses lectured:Macroeconomics (Honours), Monetary Economics (Honours), Economics 244 (Monetary Policy) |
 | Debra Shepherd Associate Professor Research interests: Micro-econometrics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Labour Economics, Stratification Economics, Identity Economics, Social Norms and Stereotypes
Courses lectured:Microeconomics 114, Economics 388 (Data Science for Economists), Economics of Education I 771/871, Economics of Exclusion 721/821 |
 | Krige Siebrits Associate Professor Research interests: Fiscal Policy; Public Economics; Institutional Economics; Economic Policymaking Courses lectured:Institutional Economics 771/871; Public Economics 771/871; Development Economics 771; Advanced Macroeconomic Policy 871; Economics 348 (Fiscal Policy); Economics 381 (Institutional Economics; Public Economics); Economics 281 (Development Economics) |
 | Carina Smit Lecturer (Part-time) Research interests: Economics of Education (Teaching and Learning) and Student Support Courses lectured:Economics 288 |
 | Jeanne Terblanche Lecturer Research interests: Heterogeneous-agent macroeconomic modelling | Fiscal theory & policy | Distributional macroeconomics
Courses lectured:Current: Macroeconomics 771 | Previous: Economics 114 |
 | Nicola Theron Extraordinary Professor Research interests: Competition policy, Monetary economics Courses lectured:Economics 348 (Competition Policy), Industrial Organisation 771 |
 | Servaas van der Berg Emeritus Professor Research interests: Economic development, Poverty, Income distribution, Social policy, Education Courses lectured:Economics 348 (Poverty and Distribution), Development Economics 771 & 871, Economics of Education 771 & 871 |
 | Melt van Schoor Lecturer Research interests: Microeconomics, Game Theroy, Labour, Social Networks and Information, Evolution and learning, Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, Agent-based Modeling, Computer Software and Methods Courses lectured:Economics 318 (Game Theory), Microeconomics 771 (Game Theory), Microeconomics 871 |
 | Dieter von Fintel Professor and and Vice Dean (Research, Postgraduate Affairs and Internationalisation) of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences Research interests: Development Economics; Applied Microeconometrics; Contemporary and historical (Spatial) Inequality; Nutrition, agriculture and health; Cliometrics Courses lectured:Econometrics 771 & 871; Advanced Cross Secion 871; Labour 771 |
 | Marisa von Fintel Associate Professor Research interests: Impact Evaluation, Health Economics, Economics of Education, Government Accountability Courses lectured:Advanced Development Economics 871, Mathematical Economics 771, Econometrics 318 |
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