42 The School of Economics has maintained its fourth position for economic departments in South Africa in the highly RePec ranking. overview the school of Economics is a main research-focused unit within the College of Business and Economics. we house undergraduate and postgraduate academic programmes as well as three research centres, namely the Centre for Competition, Regulations and Economic development (CCrEd), the Centre for local Economic development (CEnlEd) and the public and Environmental Economics research Centre (pEErC). school highlights 2019 the school of Economics has maintained its fourth position for economic departments in south africa in the highly RePec ranking. this ranking only considers the quality of research publications in highly ranked economic journals. We are ranked with the university of Cape town (uCt), university of stellenbosch Business school (usB), university of Pretoria (uP) and the university of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in the top five south African universities. the school of Economics broke into the top 500 of the Qs rankings per subject. only six subjects in uJ received a top 500 Qs ranking. only five schools of Economics on the continent of africa are listed in the top 500 Qs ranking (four in south africa and one in Egypt). the school of Economics had a successful thursday seminar series, which included presenters from the World Bank, City university of new York, university of Cambridge, national treasury, south african Reserve Bank, unCtAd and various south African universities and presenters from the private sector. Fourth industriAl revolution (4ir) Footprint We have substantially increased our 4iR footprint as evident in the Centre for Competition, regulations and Economic development (CCREd) initiatives: • An expert panel on the regulation of digital platforms for economic development that was also attended by the minister of Economic affairs. • the ACEr Conference focused on 4ir matters in the competition and regulation space, such as new forms of market power in the era of big data, rules for data ownership and privacy as well as harm to competition from digital platforms. • the industrial development think tank investigated themes such as a survey of digital skills requirements in manufacturing, machinery and equipment masterplan, economic regulation and competition in digital platforms policy briefs as well as structural transformation in industrial development. proF hArdus vAn zyl Director: School of Economics
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