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Philippe Burger is Professor of Economics and Head of Department at the University of the Free State. From September 2012 to October 2014 he was the President of the Economic Society of South Africa. He is also coordinator of the Public Economics Working Group of ERSA and an NRF-rated researcher and until recently an associate editor of the South Africa Journal of Economics. His publications include three books and numerous academic articles on fiscal rules and fiscal sustainability, public private partnerships and macroeconomic policy. In 2007, 2010 and 2012 he was seconded to the OECD in Paris to work on public private partnerships and capital budgeting, while in October 2011 he joined an OECD mission to Indonesia to conduct a regulatory review of Indonesia. In 2009 the IMF also invited him to spend a month at the IMF as a visiting scholar.

 

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Research

My research interest include macroeconomics, public economics and fiscal policy (focusing on issues pertaining to public debt and deficits, fiscal sustainability, as well as public private partnerships).

Area(s) of Interest

My research interest include macroeconomics, public economics and fiscal policy (focusing on issues pertaining to public debt and deficits, fiscal sustainability, as well as public private partnerships).

Expertise

Macroeconomics, public economics and fiscal policy (focusing on issues pertaining to public debt and deficits, fiscal sustainability, as well as public private partnerships).

Courses Presented

I present postgraduate modules on macroeconomics, public economics and advanced time-series econometrics

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