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Competition policy and regulation in digital markets

A 1-day ERSA workshop took place on 30th September 2022 in Stellen...

Event: 30 September 2022

Published: 23 June 2022

Workshop

EconData and the world of single source automatable data

In this podcast we learn how EconData has solved a couple problems ...

Published: 15 May 2022

Podcast

Dr Daan Steenkamp on forecasting GDP: why trucks matter in SA

In our second podcast with Dr Daan Steenkamp, a lead economist at t...

Published: 19 March 2021

Podcast

Dr Daan Steenkamp on nowcasting: how economists benefit from machine learning and big data

With the unprecedented level of uncertainty in the economy, the abi...

Published: 30 October 2020

Podcast

The data revolution in African economic history

Big Data can be consequential for the field of history. The surge i...

Published: 23 October 2015

Working Paper