The Department
Gideon du Rand
Email: [protected email address]
Phone: + 27 (0)21 808 2241
Office: Schumann 503
Research interests:
Political Economics: optimal voting mechanisms, optimal level of centralization |
Monetary and Macroecononomics: exchange rate modelling, rational expectations, imperfect informations, incomplete asset markets |
Econometrics: cointegration, selection models, Bayesian methods |
Economic Theory: numerical solution methods
Courses lectured:Mathematical Economics 771, Advanced Econometrics 872, Microeconomics 771 & 871, Macroeconomics 771
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BER Weekly
6 July 2020The main domestic data event over the past week was the release of the 2020Q1 GDP figures. Although not as poor as feared, the data still highlighted just how weak the SA economy was even before the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis hit with full force in 2020Q2. In other domestic news, a heated debate is raging about the fiscal consolidation outlined in...
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BER Weekly
6 July 2020The main domestic data event over the past week was the release of the 2020Q1 GDP figures. Although not as poor as feared, the data still highlighted just how weak the SA economy was even before the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis hit with full force in 2020Q2. In other domestic news, a heated debate is raging about the fiscal consolidation outlined in...
Read the full issue