EKONOMIESE VERENIGING
KONFERENSIES

2001 KONFERENSIE

Internasionale Jubileum konferensie: 13 - 14 September 2001

Ter viering van sy 75ste herdenking, beplan die Vereniging 'n groot internasionale konferensie.  Die voorlopige Konferensietema is:  Die Ekonomiese Bemagtiging van Suidelike Afrika.  Top ekonomiese beleidsadviseurs, beleidsmakers, akademiese en private sektor ekonome sal betrokke wees by 'n debat oor, onder andere, die ekonomiese bemagtiging van die substreek.

Die hoofsprekers is die volgende:

  • Openingsrede:  Reserwebank President Mr Tito Mboweni (aanvaar)

  • Dinee:  President Thabo Mbeki (aanvaar)

  • Spesiale uitnodiging:  Vito Tanzi, pas-uitgetrede hoof van die "Fiscal Affairs Department" van die IMF.

  • Ander sprekers wat moontlike genader word:
    Prof. Jeffrey Sachs (Harvard Institute of Development)
    Alan Greenspan (Federal Reserve Bank)
    Mnr Trevor Manuel, Minister van Finansies
    Mnr Alec Erwin, Minister of Trade and Industry

Meer Inligting

Die konferensie is 'n tweedae-lange konferensie en word gehou op 13 - 14 September 2001.  Dit sal gehou word by Glenburn Lodge, 'n pragtige landelike konferensiefasiliteit ongeveer een uur van Johannesburg en Pretoria.

Die dinee sal op die aand van 13 September gehou word.

Meer inligting can verkry word van Prof. Elsabe Loots by een van die volgende kontakpunte:

  • E-pos:  aelo@eb.rau.ac.za

  • Tel:     +27 11 489 2017

  • Faks:  +27 11 489 3039

  • Posadres:
    Prof. E Loots
    Dept. Ekonomie RAU
    Box 524
    Auckland Park
    SA
    2006

Konferensie gelde

  • Lede: R650-00 voor 31 Julie 2001 of R750-00 vir laat registrasie

  • Nie-lede van SADC lande: R850-00 voor 31 Julie 2001of R950-00 vir laat registrasie

  • Internasionaal:  R1 050-00 voor 31 Julie 2001 of R1 150-00 vir laat registrasie

Registrasie

As gevold van beperkings by die konferensieplek, kan slegs 250 persone deelneem aan die konferensie, insluitende die sprekers.

Die volgende inligting moet verlang om 'n voorlopige bespreking te doen:

  • Naam (Voorletters, Noemnaam, Van en Titel)

  • Posisie (bv. akademiese aanstelling) of beroep

  • Posadres

  • Telefoon nommer en kode

  • Faks nommer en kode

  • E-pos adres

Die inligting moet aangestuur word aan Prof. Elsabe Loots by die adres hierbo aangedui.


UITNODIGING
VIR REFERATE

INTERNASIONALE JUBILEUM KONFERENSIE
DIE EKONOMIESE BEMAGTIGING VAN SUIDELIKE AFRIKA


In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Economic Society of South Africa

The conference takes place at the Glenburn Lodge, near Muldersdrift (between Johannesburg and Krugersdorp) on the 13 and 14 September 2001.

You are invited to send the title and a summary of your paper (500 words) to Prof. Elsabe Loots (Chairperson of the Conference Committee), Rand Afrikaans University,
PO Box 524, Auckland Park, South Africa, 2006.

Other contact details:

 

  • The closing date for proposals is 2 May 2001.

  • A panel of experts will select papers according to their practical and academic potential.

  • Please include your title, affiliation, postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address in order to facilitate a quick response.

  • Please note that the length of the presentation is 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions and discussions.


1999 KONFERENSIE

Die Vereniging se 1999 konferensie is in Pretoria gehou.  Die konferensie is geborg deur Corpcapital Bank en Die Dekaan, Fakulteit vir Ekonomiese Bestuurswetenskappe, UP.  Die onderwerp was:

Internasionale kapitaalbewegings, ontluikende markte en Suid-Afrika

DIE VOLGENDE REFERATE IS GELEWER

  • Presidentsrede: Prof. CL McCarthy
    Polarisation and the integration of unequal economies: what will the outcome of a SADC free trade area be?

  • Sleutelrede:   Chris Taylor
    The global financial architecture in a time of change.

  1. The Asian Meltdown - just another banking crisis?
    E Schaling & C Schoeman (RAU)

  2. Fiscal discipline and the global capital market
    N J Schoeman (UPretoria)

  3. The global trap for Southern Africa
    AC Jordaan (UPretoria)

  4. Estimating the potential output of the South African economy
    BW Smit & le R Burrows (UStellenosch)

  5. South African capital flows and capital flight over the 1960 - 95 period
    J Fedderle (UWits)

  6. Fiscal policy patterns in South Africa
    E Calitz (UNISA)

  7. The experience with trade liberalisation of selected industries in the Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage metropolitan area
    SG Hosking (UPE)

  8. An overview of the revisions in the South African national accounts according to the 1993 system of national accounts
    H Smith (SARB)

  9. Stock market crashes and global depressions, 1929 and 1999
    FS Jones (UNISA)

  10. Are taxes on savings a constraint on wealth formation
    M Schüssler (FBC Fidelity)

  11. Protecting South Africa's natural resources: a nationally optimal tariff perspective
    MRAR Kohler (UNatal)

  12. The structure of and developments in the financial accounts of South Africa's balance of payments
    JJH Erasmus & S Walters (SARB)

  13. Some new evidence of FDI flows to developing countries: implications for South Africa
    E Loots (RAU)

  14. International financial crises: another transmission mechanism?
    S Mollentze (UPretoria)

  15. Explaining income distribution, poverty and basic needs in South Africa
    S McDonald (USheffield) & J Piesse (ULondon)

  16. Revising the South African Reserve Bank's methodology for calculating nominal and real effective exchange rate movements
    S Walters (SARB)

  17. Financial openness, constraints and the small open economy
    P Hawkins (USterling)

  18. The economics of exchange rates:  a South African model
    SM Brink & R Koekemoer (UPretoria)

  19. Surviving unemployment without state support: unemployment and household information in South Africa
    S Klasen (UMunich) & I Woolard (UPE)

  20. An economic explanation of fraud in South Africa
    JH Van Heerden & JN Blignaut (UPretoria)

  21. Speculative attacks, exchange rates and interest rates - a view of monetary and exchange rate policy
    PA Black (SA Foundation) & RA Stuart (Rhodes)

  22. An empirical capital market rate function for SA in international financial crises
    C Harmse & CB du Toit (UPretoria)

  23. The 1996 Constitution and the South African economy
    FK Siebrits (UNISA)

  24. The determinants of property crime in South Africa
    K Brown (UPE)

  25. Monetary policy and the South African economy 1989 - 1999
    D Hodge (UNISA)

  26. Modelling the determinants of the South African Reserve Bank's forward book
    J van den Heever (SARB)

  27. The financing of development and economic empowerment
    P Morgenrood (ABSA)

  28. Fiscal decentralisation and road transport infrastructure in North West Province
    WF Krugell (UPotch)

  29. The intersection of two emerging market economies: South Africa and Russia
    DG Kirov (UNorth)

  30. Consequences of migrant labour for South African employment
    ERG Naidoo & N Crowther (SARB)

  31. Specialisation in South African manufacturers trade 1993 - 1998
    G Parr (UNISA)

  32. China and anit-dumping legislation
    D Bekker (UNISA)

  33. International capital market crises: financial and regulatory policy responses
    CC Okeahalam (Wits)

  34. Predicting stock market returns in emerging markets
    R Simpson (UNatal)

  35. Armington elasticities for the South African mining and manufacturing sectors
    Le R Burrows (UStellenbosch)

  36. The impact of world prices and exchange rates on food security in the SADC
    T Nichola (UNatal)

  37. Monetary policy and the role of Banks in South Africa: an econometric formulation
    S Mashele (UVenda)

  38. The ideological identity crisis of South African labour unions
    FJ Scholtz (UPretoria)

  39. Effective protection revisited: how useful a policy tool for South Africa?
    M Holden (UNatal)

  40. An economic union in Southern Africa, what's the odds?
    JJ Janse Van Rensburg (UPretoria)



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