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BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF
THE ECONOMIC SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA
30 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER 2017,
RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMSTOWN
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 biennial 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 limited to the following: macroeconomics, growth, development and poverty,
monetary economics and policy, industrial organisation, international trade and finance, finance, labour,
transport, health, environmental & resource economics, fiscal policy and public economics, political
economy, economic history and methodology.
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
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