Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke is Director of Economic Research South Africa and Professor at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests center on the determinants of economic growth, with special interest in the role of institutions in long run economic development. His published work includes empirical and theoretical contributions, and has provided cross-country, panel and country specific time series evidence on the interaction of growth and institutions. Author of more than 70 peer reviewed publications, he has also contributed a number of policy research reports to the African Union, the League of Arab States, the South African National Treasury and Departments of Trade & Industry, Arts, Science & Technology, the World Bank, and the South African Parliament.
People at ERSA
Nicola Viegi is the South African Reserve Bank Chair in Monetary Economics at the University of Pretoria. A graduate from the Scottish Doctoral Programme in Economics, he has held positions at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and at the University of Cape Town. His main areas of research are economic policy theory, macroeconomic modeling and regional macroeconomic integration. Current research includes inflation targeting under uncertainty, monetary policy and assets prices, macroeconomic integration in Southern Africa.
Biniam Egu Bedasso is a development economist with special focus on political economy and institutional economics. He has formerly held research positions in various institutions including United Nations University – MERIT, Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Biniam was a Robert S. McNamara fellow of the World Bank in 2012. His works are forthcoming in international peer-reviewed journals such as Economics & Politics and the Journal of Development Studies. Biniam holds a PhD in Public Policy from Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
"Co-Pierre Georg is an Old Mutual Emerging Markets Lecturer at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. He also is a Collaborating Research Scholar at Keble College, Oxford University and a Research Associate at Deutsche Bundesbank. Before joining UCT, Co-Pierre was a Research Economist at Deutsche Bundesbank and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University Carlos III de Madrid. He obtained his PhD in 2011 from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena where he also spent a semester as a visiting scholar at the New York University Stern School of Business.
Nonso Obikili is a economist with research interests in African economic history, economic development and macroeconomics. Current research includes the long term effects of the trans-Atlantic slave trades on political and economic development in Africa. He was formerly a Lecturer at the State University of New York at Binghamton and is a regular contributor to various policy oriented think tanks in Nigeria.
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Cape Town
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Newlands on Main
F0301 – 3rd Floor Mariendahl House
Cnr Campground and Main Roads
Claremont 7700
Cape Town
Tel: 021 671-3980
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