The Department
Research Associates
The Department has appointed a number of research associates:
 | Caryn Bredenkamp Senior Economist, World Bank Research interests: Health economics |
 | Estian Calitz Stellenbosch University (Emeritus Professor and Research Associate) Research interests: Public Economics, Economic policy |
 | Lars Christensen Founder and CEO, Markets & Money Advisory Research interests: Monetary policy and theory, monetary history, alternative monetary systems and Emerging Markets |
 | Katherine Eriksson University of California Davis Research interests: Economic history, labor economics, and development economics. My research focuses on early 20th century US economic history. I also am interested in South African education policy and economic history. |
 | Leigh Gardner London School of Economics, UK Research interests: Economic history |
 | Erik Green Lund University, Sweden Research interests: Economic History |
 | Jan Kiviet Emeritus Professor of Econometrics, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Research interests: Relationships with Endogenous Explanatories, Dynamic Panel Data Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation and Testing, Finite Sample Issues, Asymptotic Expansions, Exact Inference, Bootstrap, History of Statistics and Econometrics. |
 | Ramos Mabugu Sol Plaatje University, Kimberly Research interests: Public economics, Development economics |
 | Martine Mariotti Australian National University, Australia Research interests: Economic history |
 | Nonso Obikili ERSA Policy Associate Research interests: Economic History, Development Economics |
 | Trudy Owens Nottingham University, UK Research interests: Development economics |
 | Ian Stuart Chief Director: Fiscal Policy Unit, National Treasury Research interests: Public Economics |
 | Stephen Taylor Department of Basic Education, South African government Research interests: Economics of education, Labour economics |
 | Ramazan Uctu Research interests: Innovation systems, technological entrepreneurship |
 | Marianne Wanamaker University of Tennessee Research interests: Labor economics and workforce development, education, American economic history and demography |
 | Thomas Wilkinson Researcher, PRICELESS Centre, WITS School of Public Health Research interests: Health Economics |
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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...
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