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Prof
Greyling, Lorraine
Department: Economics
Research Interest(s): Macroeconomics, Macroeconometrics, Quantitative analysis and applied econometrics, Development policy, Economics history.
Biography: Professor Greyling is the Dean of Faculty of Commerce, Administration and Law and professor of Economics at the University of Zululand (UNIZULU) in South Africa. She did her PhD in Economics in 1988 on “An Inflation Model for South Africa” and has been involved with a policy document on inflation targeting or the South African Reserve Bank and Government, based on her findings. Her research activities and main publications are focused on applied economics and policy issues and she has nineteen accredited articles (national and International) with a focus on business cycle analysis, the prediction of nonlinear models, the application of CGE modeling for policy analysis and recently a number of articles on asset poverty, economic teaching pedagogy and economic history of South Africa.
She has successfully supervised twelve doctoral and about 80 Masters’ candidates, read 40 papers at international conferences and 55 papers at national conferences and is involved with research projects leading to policy recommendations. She has published five text books and is a co-author of an Economics text book prescribed for about 4500 first year Economic students. Prof Greyling was the selected Head of Department of Economics and Econometrics at UJ and was actively involved in UJ Management through several committees and decision-making forums for 37 years. She joined the University of Zululand in 2017 and was appointed as Dean in 2019. She is the chair of the Institutional Forum and is a member of Council of the University of Zululand.