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Workshops
Latest Workshops
Households & Labour Markets
ERSA is pleased to announce a 2 day workshop to take place in Durban, 22 – 23 January 2009. The workshop will serve as a forum to present current empirical research and results in the broad areas of households and labour markets. This is an excellent opportunity to receive feedback from peers on work-in-progress. We welcome contributions also from senior post-graduate students. More information....
5-day Training Workshop on Nonparametic Methods
ERSA is pleased to announce a 5 day training workshop on Nonparametic Methods - 03 to 07 November 2008, University of Pretoria.The workshop will be led by Professor Jeffrey S. Racine (Senator William McMaster Chair in Econometrics, McMaster University, Canada).
All attendees are expected to have a background in Mathematics and Probability and to have taken courses in Advanced Econometric Methods including Multivariate Regression and Inference up to the level of Greene or Wooldridge. Formally, no previous knowledge of Nonparametric Estimation is required. More information...
Past Workshops
An ERSA Networking Workshop on Promoting Economic History in Southern Africa - 25 - 26 September 2008, Makaranga Lodge, Durban
Internationally, Economic History as research field has gained considerable momentum in the last 5 - 10 years. The quantitative approach to economic history has driven much of this enthusiasm due to its promise of new ways to give substance to economic theories. At MIT, for example, Economic History has become a compulsory course in the graduate programme. However, this surge in popularity remains largely absent in South Africa.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together current researchers in the field of Economic History, as well as researchers in related fields such as business and management history working on South Africa and Southern Africa, to find ways of popularising the subject, and to provide a forum for researchers to present their work in progress. As the workshop intends to build a network in this research area, participation is welcome even without paper contributions. Further information...
A Training Workshop on Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods: UCT - Tuesday 15 July – Friday 18 July 2008
ERSA is pleased to announce a 4 day training workshop on nonparametic and semiparametric methods. The workshop will led by Professor Martin Wittenberg (Economics, UCT).
Participants should have a good grounding in Econometrics, although no prior knowledge of nonparametric and semiparametric methods is required.
Prospective on African Economic Integration Rhodes University - 19th and 20th June 2008
The workshop served as a forum to present current research and results in the areas of African Economic Integration and gave researchers in these areas the opportunity to network. Although there is a growing literature on economic integration in Africa, both nationally and internationally, there has not been a dedicated forum where to present and discuss current research and evaluate future area of analysis. The two day workshop aimed to fill this gap and link the national debate to the international literature, inviting leading researchers in the area. Both theoretical and empirical studies were welcomed. The purpose of the workshop was to build a network in this research area, participation was welcome even without paper contributions. More information.
Applied Time Series Analysis Workshop: UCT - 26 – 30 May 2008
 Professors Katerina Juselius and Soren Johansen presented a workshop on Applied Time Series Analysis over the period 26 – 30 May 2008.
The focus of the workshop was applied time series analysis, and followed the outline & material contained in The Cointegrated VAR Model: Methodology and Applications in the Advanced Tests in Econometrics by Oxford University Press, 2007.
Documents for download
Exam questions with answers
Bookdata
Exercises for the workshop.
USGedata (spreadsheet)
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Poverty and Inequality Workshop - March 2008, Call for Papers
This was a 2 day workshop on ‘Poverty and Inequality' which took place in Bloemfontein on the 6th & 7th of March.
The workshop served as a forum to present current empirical research and results in the areas of poverty and inequality. This was an excellent opportunity to present work in progress and to receive feedback from peers. Allcontributions from doctoral students were welcomed. Read more...
Firm Level Data Analysis Workshop - February 2008
This two-day networking workshop took place at the University of Witwatersrand from Tuesday 19 February to Wednesday 20 February 2008. Read more...
Institutions and Growth Workshop - 4 - 5 February 2008
ERSA announced a 1.5 day workshop on ‘Institutions and Growth’ which tookplace at the Breakwater Lodge in Cape Town on the 4 & 5 February 2008.
Read here for more information.
Papers for download
- Bureaucratic Corruption, Openness and Public Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model by Rangan Gupta and Emmanuel Ziramba
- Looking abroad to understand productivity growth: the world technology frontier and industrial sector productivity in South Africa by Torfinn Harding and Jørn Rattsø
- Synchronization between South Africa and the U.S.: A Structural Dynamic Factor Analysis by Alain Kabundi
- Characterizing Conflict Forms by J. Fedderke and C. Kularatne
- Financial Development and Inequality: Brazil 1985-1994 by Manoel Bittencourty
- Trade barriers to growth in South Africa: Endogenous investment-productivity-trade interaction by Jørn Rattsø and Hildegunn E. Stokke
- A Theoretically Defensible Measure of Risk: Using Financial Market Data from a Middle Income Context by Johannes Fedderke and Neryvia Pillay
- Some policy experiment using a marshallian macroeconometric model: Case of South Africa by Jacques Kibambe Ngoie and Arnold Zellner
- Social and Economic Infrastructure Impacts on Economic Growth in South Africa by C. Kularatne
- Mark-ups and competition – a comparison of the profitability of listed South African and American industrial companies by E. S. Gilbert and S. A. Du Plessis
- Testing Creative Destruction in an Opening Economy: the Case of the South African Manufacturing Industries by Philippe Aghion, Johannes Fedderke, Peter Howitt, Chandana Kularatne and Nicola Viegi.
- Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu by Ola Olsson and Gustav Hansson
Human Capital - Health and Education: Micro Analysis and Macro Effects, Thursday, August 16 – Friday, August 17, 2007, Gauteng
This workshop painted a broad picture of human capital within South Africa. The ultimate goal of the workshop was to consider the micro aspects of human capital investments and associated policies, which would underpin a discussion of the relationship between human capital investment, policies and national income or economic growth over the course seven sessions within two days.
We began by considering what we knew about the health and education level of South African citizens. This was continued, by discussing the ‘determinants’ of individual and household health and learning capital investments. After looking partially at the demand side, the workshop moved on to consider the delivery of health and education. Labour market participation, marriage, earnings and other measures of socioeconomic status and the association of these measures with various forms of human capital was then discussed. The workshop concluded by extending microeconomic issues towards macroeconomic issues, especially, the relationship between human capital investments, government policy and economic growth in South Africa. For more information contact: Prof SF Koch
12th Annual Conference on Econometric Modeling in Africa
ERSA and the University of Cape Town hosted the 12th Annual Conference on Econometric Modeling in Africa. The conference dates were 4 to 6 July 2006. For more information about the conference please vist the African Econometric Society website.
Reflecting History Through Numbers: Quantitative African Economic History in the New Institutional Tradition
The quantitative study of economic history has gathered pace in the academic literature in recent years, especially within the tradition of the new institutional economics. In order to strengthen local participation in this field, and with a specific focus on African economic history, the Department of Economics at the University of Stellenbosch announced the above mentioned workshop. An internationally renowned academic, Professor James Robinson, of Harvard University agreed to participate and facilitate the two-day long workshop. The workshop was supported financially by Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA).
Economists interested in the subject were invited to attend the workshop. Participants could attend the workshop, or present an already published paper (or work in progress) that provides a good example of innovative quantitative work done in the field.
Programme & Policy Evaluation Training Workshop
This training workshop was funded by ERSA and hosted by SALDRU and took on the form of lectures in the mornings and computer practicals (using STATA) in the afternoons.
The workshop was led by Sebastian Galiani from Washington University , St Louis on 24 – 28 July 2007 at UCT. See link to course outline.
Understanding the Growth Challenge: The Chinese and Indian Case Studies by Michael Spence
A presentation by Michael Spence was held on 14 June at UCT. Michael Spence is one of the 2001 Nobel Laureates in Economics and currently chairs the Commission on Growth and Development. The address took place from 12.30 to 13.30 on the 14 June 2007 at Lecture Theatre LT1, Kramer Building, Middle Campus, UCT.
Download the presentation.
ERSA Macroeconomics and Growth Workshop - Pretoria 10-11 of May 2007
The workshop, organised in collaboration with the South African Reserve Bank, was an occasion to exchange information on macroeconomic research currently undertaken in South Africa and coordinate future research initiatives. Themes of the workshop was on the areas of Business Cycle Research in South Africa, DSGE Models, Spatial Dimension of Growth, Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy Framework, Credit Cycles.
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Robust Estimates of Okun's Coefficient for South Africa by J. Geldenhuys and M. Marinkov
Forecasting the South African Economy: A DSGE-VAR Approach by Guangling "Dave" Liu and Rangan Gupta
MONETARY POLICY RULES FOR MANAGING AID SURGES IN AFRICA by Christopher Adam, Stephen O’Connell, Edward Buffie, Catherine Pattillo
A shorter version of the paper can be downloaded from http://www.worldeconomyandfinance.org/working_papers_publications/wpdetail0016.html
Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in Africa by Christopher Adam, Stephen O’Connell, Edward Buffie and Catherine Pattillo
‘Matching’ Expectations to the Target: The Role of Communication in Monetary Policy by Maria Demertzis and Nicola Viegi
Exchange Rate Regimes, Determinacy, and Learnability in the Open Economy: Conditions for Monetary Conditions by Eric Schaling and Marco Hoeberichts
Corporate Control and the Theory of the Firm
A three-day workshop on "Corporate Control and the Theory of the Firm" took place at the University of KwaZulu-Natal from Wednesday 21 February to Friday 23 February 2007. The workshop was presented by Professor Klaus Ritzberger of the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies and was jointly organised by Jim Fairburn (School of Economics and Finance, UKZN) and Alexander Zimper (School of Economics, UCT). The workshop was of interest to academics and senior postgraduate students working in the fields of financial economics and economic theory. For more information please click Here.
Macro-econometric Modeling
ERSA hosted a mini-workshop on Macro-econometric modeling at UCT on the 13th to the 17th November 2006. This workshop was be run by Prof Yongcheol Shin from Leeds University together with Prof Johann Fedderke from UCT.
View the presenters research interests.
Download the datasets used in the workshop.
The South African Labour Market
A workshop on the South African Labour Market which was hosted by ERSA was held on the 14 and 15th September 2006 at Stellenbosch University. It was run by Dr Martin Wittenberg from UCT. The guest speaker at the workshop was Vimal Ranchhod from the University of Michigan, USA.
View the presentations.
Infrastructure and Growth - Theory, Empirical Evidence and Policy Lessons Workshop
Ersa hosted its first workshop in Cape Town on the 29-31 May 2006. Keynote speakers were David Canning from Harvard and Ioannis Kessides from the World Bank. The workshop was held at The Twelve Apostles hotel in Camps Bay.
View the programme as well as download presentations and papers presented by speakers.
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