University Of Pretoria Economics

University Of Pretoria Economics

University Of Pretoria Economics, The Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria is committed to the University’s vision of being globally competitive and locally relevant. Our courses and programmes are benchmarked against the best international practices to enable our students to ‘work and play anywhere in the world’.

Welcome to the Department of Construction Economics

The Department of Construction Economics offers undergraduate and post graduate degrees in:
Construction Management
Quantity Surveying
Real Estate
The Department is a leader in the provision of well-prepared practitioners in the fields of construction and property development in the private and public sector, both locally and abroad. We are accredited with the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession (SACQSP), the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professionals (SACPCMP) as well as by the South African Council For The Property Valuers Profession (SACPVP). We also have a strong relationship with industry and relevant professional associations such as the Associaton of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS).  Our department offers regular short courses aimed at skills development in the industry. For more information on these courses
We are also actively involved in the following areas of research:

• Building Information Modeling and Construction Project Management
• Construction Innovation
• Costing Models and Whole Life Costing
• Green Building
• Project / Construction Procurement
• Property Valuation and Economics
• Risk and Decision-making in Real Estate
• Urban Resilience
• Well-being in the Built Environment

Economic and Management Sciences (Honours) – 2019

Economic and Management Sciences (Masters) – 2019

MAdmin Public Management and Policy

MCom Accounting Sciences

MCom Accounting Sciences (Coursework)

MCom Agricultural Economics

MCom Auditing

MCom Business Management

MCom Econometrics (Coursework)

MCom Economics (Coursework)

MCom Financial Management Sciences

MCom Financial Management Sciences (Coursework)

MCom Human Resource Management (Coursework)

MCom Industrial Psychology (Coursework)

MCom Informatics

MCom Marketing Management

MCom Marketing Management (Coursework)

MCom Taxation

MCom Taxation (Coursework)

MCom Tourism Management

MPA (Coursework)

MPA Public Infrastructure Management (Coursework)

MPhil Agricultural Economics (Coursework)

MPhil Business Management Responsible Leadership (Coursework)

MPhil Business Management Supply Chain Management (Coursework)

MPhil Communication Management

MPhil Communication Management (Coursework)

MPhil Development Practice (Coursework)

MPhil Economics (Coursework)

MPhil Entrepreneurship (Coursework)

MPhil Fraud Risk Management (Coursework)

MPhil Human Resource Management

MPhil Internal Auditing (Coursework)

MPhil Labour Relations Management

MPhil Public Policy

MPhil Taxation (Coursework)

MPhil Tourism Management

MPhil Tourism Management (Coursework)

Honours degrees

Please note:
Department of Economics plans to accept no more than 45 (total) students into its BCom (Hons) Economics and BCom (Hons) Econometrics programmes. Selection criteria listed in the EMS postgraduate regulations booklet apply; we have not set out additional requirements beyond what we have listed there.

The Department of Economics offers the following Honours degrees:

• BComHons (Econometrics)

Students registered for the BComHons (Econometrics) degree must complete six compulsory courses. They are two microeconomics courses (Microeconomics Fundamentals and Applied Microeconomics in International Trade and Public Finance), two macroeconomic courses (Macroeconomic Fundamentals and Applied Macroeconomics in Monetary Economics and Economic Development) and two Econometrics courses (Econometrics 714 and Econometrics 724). In addition to the compulsory courses, students must also complete an essay (EKT 795).

• BComHons (Economics)

Students registered for the BComHons (Economics) degree must complete six compulsory courses. They are two microeconomics courses (Microeconomics Fundamentals and Applied Microeconomics in International Trade and Public Finance), two macroeconomic courses (Macroeconomic Fundamentals and Applied Macroeconomics in Monetary Economics and Economic Development) and two Econometrics courses (Econometrics 713 and Econometrics 723). In addition to the compulsory courses, students must also complete an essay (EKN 795).

Economics: Staff

Prof S Koch Head of Department Qualifications: MA(Pennsylvania), PhD(Pennsylvania) Research Interests: Health Economics; Labour Economics; Competition Policy and Industrial Organization Microeconometrics Courses lectured: Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Applied Research Workshop Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 5285 Fax: +27 (0)86 6242 444 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV Personal website
Dr H Bohlmann Senior lecturer Qualifications: MCom(Pret), PhD(Monash University) Research Interests: Computable General Equilibrium Modelling, Development Economics, Labour Economics Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 6394 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Prof M Breitenbach Associate Professor Qualifications: MCom(Vista), PhD(Vista) Research Interests: Economic Impact Assessment with Specific Reference to Public Project Appraisal and Regional Economic Impact Assessment; Economic-, Agricultural-, Rural-, and Local Economic Development Courses lectured: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Monetary Economics, Development Economics Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3468 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Dr C Chisadza Lecturer Qualifications: BCom(Hons) Economics, MCom Economics Research interests: Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, Political Economy Courses lectured: Microeconomics, Introductory Growth and Development Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3134 Email: [email protected] Detailed CV
Dr M Clance Senior lecturer Qualifications: PhD (Clemson University) Research Interests: International Trade, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics Courses lectured: Principles Micro and Macro, Intermediate Macro, Honours Econometrics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3453 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Prof R Franzsen Professor Qualifications: BLC(Pret), LLB(Pret), LLD(Stellenbosch) Research Interests: Property and land taxes, transfer duty Tel: +27 (0)12 420 5538 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Prof Augustin Fosu Extraordinary Professor Prof. Augustin Fosu is Professor, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon and Extraordinary Professor, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is also Research Associate, Brook World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, UK; and Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, UK. He has published extensively, with certain rankings listing him among ‘top economists’ globally, e.g., http://ideas.repec.org/coupe.html. His recent edited books include Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Achieving Development Success: Strategies and Lessons from the Developing World (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Dr Y Getachew Associate Professor Qualifications: PhD (Maastricht University) Research Interests: Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Development, Income and Wealth Inequality Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4509 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Prof R Gupta Professor Qualifications: PhD(Connecticut) Research Interests: Monetary Theory and Policy; Business Cycles; Time Series Econometrics Courses lectured: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Advanced International Trade and Investment, International Economics Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3460 E-mail: [email protected] Personal Website
Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz Associate Professor Qualifications: BCom Hons(Macedonia, Greece), MCom(Pret), PhD(Pret) Research Interests: Energy economics, Environmental economics, Economic growth and development, Time series econometrics Courses lectured: Economics: Undergraduate, Economics for actuarial students: Undergraduate, Econometrics: Seminars for practitioners Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4504 E-mail: [email protected] Personal Website Detailed CV
Mr J Janse van Rensburg Lecturer Qualifications: BCom(Hons), MCom(Pret) Research Interests: Health Economics Courses lectured: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Health Economics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3467 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Prof A Jordaan Associate Professor Qualifications: BA(Hons), MCom, DCom(Pret), HED Research Interests: Development Economics Courses lectured: Economic Description and Theory, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Economics, Development Economics, Urban Economics Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3462 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Dr S Kilambo Lecturer Qualifications: PhD (Edinburgh), MA Econ (Stellenbosch), BA Hons (Botswana), Dip(Econ Assess (Molder Norway) Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4507 E-mail: [email protected] Short CV Detailed CV
Prof T McGrimmon Extraordinary Lecturer Qualifications: PhD(Econ)(Wyoming), PhD(Sociology)(South Carolina) Research Interests: Behavioral Economics and Finance, Bargaining and Game theory, Experimental Economics, Agent-based Modelling Courses lectured: Microeconomics, Game Theory, Law and Economics, Financial Markets and Institutions, Money and Banking E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV Personal Website
Mr M Molefinyane Lecturer Qualifications: MCom (Economics) (Wits) Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Decision Theory Courses lectured: EKN 110 and 120 Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4503 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Dr Jesse Naidoo Senior lecturer Qualifications: PhD (University of Chicago) Research Interests: economics of the family, economic demography Courses lectured: microeconomics, applied econometrics (graduate) Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3464 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV Personal website
Prof R Naraidoo Associate Professor Qualifications: MSc, PhD (Cardiff) Research Interests: Applied Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Political Economics, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Time Series Analysis Courses lectured: Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics. Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3729 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Dr N Nicholls Senior Lecturer Qualifications: BComm(Hons); MComm (Economics); BA(Hons); MA (Psychology); PhD (Economics) Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, particularly rationality violations Courses lectured: Microeconomics Tel: +27 (0)21 420 4505 E-Mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Mr D Scholtz Senior Lecturer Qualifications: BCom(Econ)(Hons), LLB(Pret), MPhil Taxation (Pret)(Cum laude) Research Interests: Tax Incentives; Tax Harmonisation; Taxation for Development Courses lectured: Public Finance, Economic Analysis, Elementary Economics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3524 E-mail: [email protected] Résumé
Prof R van Eyden Professor Qualifications: BSc(Hons), MBA, DCom(Pret) Research Interests: Applied Econometrics; Macroeconomic Modelling Courses lectured: Economic Analysis, Econometrics, Macroeconomic Modelling Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3456 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Prof J van Heerden Professor Qualifications: BCom(Hons), MCom(RAU), MA(WIU), MA PhD(Rice Univ Texas), HE D(Unisa) Research Interests: Microeconomics; Computable General Equilibrium Modelling Courses lectured: Microeconomics Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3451 E-mail: [email protected] Detailed CV
Dr Marius van Oordt Senior Lecturer Qualifications: PhD in Tax Policy Tel: +27 12 420 3470 Fax: +27 12 420 4508 E-mail: [email protected]
Prof N Viegi Professor Qualifications: Ph.D in Economics, University of Stratchlyde in Glasgow, MSc in Economics, University of Glasgow, Laurea in Economia e Commercio Universita degli Studi di Pisa Research Interests: Monetary economics, economic policy theory, monetary fiscal policy interdependence, political economy of monetary institutions, economic policy under uncertainty assets prices and monetary policy, regional integration in Africa, political economy of government debt, the economics of colonisation and decolonisation, macromodelling for emerging countries, economic growth and institutions. Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3820 E-mail: [email protected] Personal website Detailed CV
Prof A Zimper Professor Qualifications: Diplom-Volkswirt (Humboldt University), Dr. rer. pol. (University of Mannheim) Research Interests: Decision Theory, Game Theory, General Equilibrium Theory under Asymmetric Information, Asset Pricing, Financial Markets and Banking Regulation, Bayesian Learning under Ambiguity, Bounded Rationality Courses lectured: Econ Theory Recent Full Text Articles Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4505 E-mail: [email protected] Personal website Detailed CV
Ms L Cromhout Departmental Administrator: Undergraduate Tel: +27 (0)12 420 2413 E-mail: [email protected]
Ms S Laing Departmental Administrator: Research in the Department Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3453 Fax: +27 (0)86 624 2487 E-mail: [email protected]
Ms S Magwaza Departmental Administrator: Head of the Department & Graduate Officer Qualifications: BAdmin(Hons) Public Management (Pret) Tel: +27 (0)12 420 2423 Fax: +27 (0)86 6242 444 E-mail: [email protected]