Scholarship to attend an international summer school

As part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Summer School, five Nobel Laureates in Economics presented lectures during the week. These Nobel Laureates were George Akerlof, winner in 2001, Eric Maskin, winner in 2007, Dale Mortensen, winner in 2010, William Sharpe, winner in 1990, and Michael Spence winner in 2001. In addition, Robert Wescott, a former economic advisor to former US President, Mr Bill Clinton, presented a lecture on the energy revolution.

The topic of this year’s ISEO Summer School was “Redrawing the map of global economy”, which is very relevant to the topic of Ms De Waal’s PhD thesis, namely “The impact of global economic shocks on South Africa amid time-varying trade linkages”. The lectures and discussions on “How the global economy is changing and what it means” by Michael Spence and “The real crisis: Global unemployment” by Dale Mortensen, provided Ms De Waal with valuable and topical information about the changing global economy. The Summer School was attended by 103 students from all over the world.