The Department
Staff
Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Associate Professor and Chair
Research interests
Institutional Economics, Experimental Economics
Courses lectured
Economics 381 (Institutional Economics), Institutional Economics 771
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
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
Professor
Research interests
Micro-econometrics, Labour Economics, Microeconomics, Development Economics
Courses lectured
Microeconomics (Honours & Masters); Advanced Econometrics (Graduate); Labour Economics (Graduate & third-year);
Emeritus Associate Professor (Lecturing)
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
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.
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
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)
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)
Emeritus Professor (Teaching)
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
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
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
Lecturer
Research interests
Productivity, Misallocation, and Firm Dynamics; Industrial Organisation Macroeconomics; Micro and Macro Labour Economics; Computational Microeconometrics
Courses lectured
Econometrics 441/871; International Trade 771/871; Economics 388 (Labour Economics);
Lecturer
Research interests
Economic History, Macroeconomics, Indigenous History, Indigenous Economics, Labour Economics, Quantitative text analysis.
Courses lectured
Microeconomics 114, Macroeconomics 144, Economics 214
Professor
Research interests
Macroeconomics, Macro-Finance, Monetary Theory and Policy.
Courses lectured
Macroeconomics 871, Advanced Time Series Econometrics 872, Mathematical Economics 771.
Lecturer
Research interests
Labour economics; Law and Economics (economic analysis of law)
Lecturer & Researcher
Research interests
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: Firm Behaviour and Business Cycles, Macro-Finance
Courses lectured
Postgraduate: Monetary Economics Theory (Planned: International Finance) | Undergraduate: Monetary Economics 3rd year, Monetary Economics/International Finance 2nd year, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics 1st year.
Senior Lecturer
Research interests
Migration Studies, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Race and Class in South Africa
Senior Researcher (Lecturing)
Research interests
household finance, development, economics of the family, economic demography
Courses lectured
microeconomic theory (771 and 871, postgraduate), labour economics (388, undergraduate)
Senior Lecturer
Research interests
International trade and trade policy; Firm dynamics and industrial development; Labour market outcomes and gender; Regional value chain analysis; Digital technology and innovation.
Courses lectured
International Trade 771/871; Economics 281; Microeconomics 114; Labour Economics 771/871; Microeconomics 771
Lecturer
Research interests
Health economics
Courses lectured
Economics 114; Economics 144
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)
Senior Researcher
Research interests
household finance, development economics, social networks
Extraordinary Associate Professor
Research interests
Macroeconomic policy, Monetary economics, Financial economics
Courses lectured
Macroeconomics (Honours), Monetary Economics (Honours), Economics 244 (Monetary Policy)
Associate Professor
Research interests
Applied Microeconometrics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Labour Economics, Stratification Economics, Identity Economics, Social Norms and Stereotypes
Courses lectured
Microeconomics 114, Microeconomics 217, Economics 388 (Data Science for Economists), Economics of Education I 771/871, Economics of Exclusion 721/821
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)
Lecturer (Part-time)
Research interests
Economics of Education (Teaching and Learning) and Student Support
Courses lectured
Economics 288
Lecturer
Research interests
Heterogeneous-agent macroeconomic modelling | Fiscal theory & policy | Distributional macroeconomics
Courses lectured
Current: Macroeconomics 771 | Previous: Economics 114
Extraordinary Professor
Research interests
Competition policy, Monetary economics
Courses lectured
Economics 348 (Competition Policy), Industrial Organisation 771
Emeritus Professor (Lecturing)
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
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
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 https://researcherprofiles.sun.ac.za/4237-dieter-von-fintel
Courses lectured
Econometrics 771 & 871; Advanced Cross Secion 871; Labour 771
Associate Professor
Research interests
Impact Evaluation, Health Economics, Economics of Education, Government Accountability
Courses lectured
Advanced Development Economics 871, Mathematical Economics 771, Econometrics 318