SIA Research Seminar: A Theory of Colonial Governance
Date & Time: September 08, 2016 | 08:00 PM – 09:00 PM
Location: 241 Lewis Katz Building
Join us for this year’s first installment of the SIA Research Seminar Series. Noted expert on economic policy and macroeconomics Nicola Viegi will discuss a mathematical model of colonization, the empirical evidence behind it, and the implications of this research.
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.