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
30 March 2020Late Friday night, Moody's downgraded SA's foreign and local currency sovereign credit rating to Ba1 - one notch below investment grade - following a scheduled ratings review. Tragically, SA also recorded its first COVID-19 deaths and cases surged to over 1 200 during the week.In financial markets, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) announced it would start...
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BER Weekly
30 March 2020Late Friday night, Moody's downgraded SA's foreign and local currency sovereign credit rating to Ba1 - one notch below investment grade - following a scheduled ratings review. Tragically, SA also recorded its first COVID-19 deaths and cases surged to over 1 200 during the week.In financial markets, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) announced it would start...
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