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
19 April 2021Last week’s data releases for SA and in particular the US bode well for the GDP growth outlook in 2021. In SA, the incoming data for 2021Q1 suggests that the GDP recovery continued in the first three months of the year, albeit that the growth momentum likely softened further. Nevertheless, relative to the start of the year when we expected a negative...
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BER Weekly
19 April 2021Last week’s data releases for SA and in particular the US bode well for the GDP growth outlook in 2021. In SA, the incoming data for 2021Q1 suggests that the GDP recovery continued in the first three months of the year, albeit that the growth momentum likely softened further. Nevertheless, relative to the start of the year when we expected a negative...
Read the full issue