Biennial Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa 30 August–1 September 2017, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

• Date: 01 December 2016
• Published date: 01 December 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12144

BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF

THE ECONOMIC SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA

30 AUGUST–1 SEPTEMBER 2017,

RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMSTOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

The Economic Society of South Africa and the Department of Economics and Economic

History at Rhodes University are honoured to invite submissions for the Society’s bien-

nial conference to be hosted by Rhodes University from the 30th August to the 1st of

September 2017. Papers are invited across all fields of economics, including, but not lim-

ited to the following: macroeconomics, growth, development and poverty, monetary eco-

nomics and policy, industrial organisation, international trade and finance, finance,

labour, transport, health, environmental and resource economics, fiscal policy and public

economics, political economy, economic history and methodology.

1. Key Dates

14 November 2016: Submissions open

19 May 2017: Submissions close

2 June 2017: Feedback to prospective presenters

23 June 2017: Registration closes for speakers (and end of early registration)

19 August 2017: Conference papers submitted in pdf format

30 August–1 September 2017: Conference

2. Arrangements for Submissions

Submissions have to be made electronically at the conference website: http://www.2017.

essa.org.za/

The conference academic committee will evaluate all submissions with the help of

peer reviews.

A maximum of two submissions per presenter will be accepted.

Information required from every submission:

Author(s) name and title.

Affiliation

Paper title

Text (the word limit is 300) with clear indication of the research question and method used

JEL code(s) for the paper

Email address of the corresponding author

South African Journal

of Economics