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’.

The Department of Economics offers a wide variety of courses and degrees for undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as short courses for people interested in upgrading their skills and knowledge in various aspects of economics and econometrics.

The Department of Economics offers the following undergraduate degrees:

BCom (Economics)
BCom (Econometrics)

Please see our Undergraduate Studies page for more details.

We also offer several postgraduate degrees.

Honours Degrees

BCom (Hons) in Economics
BCom (Hons) in Econometrics

Masters’ Degrees

MCom in Economics
MCom in Econometrics
MPhil in Economics

PhD

PhD in Economics

The department’s postgraduate programme is considered to be one of the best on the continent. Admission to the various postgraduate programmes are extremely competitive. Please see our Postgraduate Studies page for more details.

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) – 2023

BAdminHons Public Administration and Management

BComHons Agricultural Economics

BComHons Business Management

BComHons Communication Management

BComHons Econometrics

BComHons Economics

BComHons Financial Management Science

BComHons Human Resource Management

BComHons Human Resource Management and Labour Relations

BComHons Informatics

BComHons Internal Auditing

BComHons Investment Management

BComHons Marketing Management

BComHons Mathematical Statistics

BComHons Statistics

BComHons Supply Chain Management

BComHons Taxation

BComHons Tourism Management

Economic and Management Sciences (Masters) – 2023

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: steve.koch@up.ac.za
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: heinrich.bohlmann@up.ac.za
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: martin.breitenbach@up.ac.za
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: carolyn.chisadza@up.ac.za

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: matthew.clance@up.ac.za
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: riel.franzsen@up.ac.za
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: yoseph.getachew@up.ac.za
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: rangan.gupta@up.ac.za
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: roula.inglesi-lotz@up.ac.za

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: jan.jansevanrensburg@up.ac.za
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: andre.jordaan@up.ac.za
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: sixta.kilambo@up.ac.za

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: tucker.mcgrimmon@up.ac.za
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: mpoifeng.molefinyane@up.ac.za
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: jesse.naidoo@up.ac.za

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: ruthira.naraidoo@up.ac.za
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: nicky.nicholls@up.ac.za

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: dirk.scholtz@up.ac.za
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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: renee.vaneyden@up.ac.za
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: jan.vanheerden@up.ac.za
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: marius.vanoordt@up.ac.za

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: nicola.viegi@up.ac.za
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: alexander.zimper@up.ac.za
Personal website
Detailed CV

Ms L Cromhout

Departmental Administrator: Undergraduate

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 2413
E-mail: louise.cromhout@up.ac.za

Ms S Laing

Departmental Administrator: Research in the Department

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3453
Fax: +27 (0)86 624 2487
E-mail: sonja.laing@up.ac.za

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: sindi.magwaza@up.ac.za

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