We wish to congratulate Ms Michelle Groenewald who was recently awarded an MCom in Economics and Dr Carli Bezuidenhout who was awarded a PhD in Economics.

The topic of Michelle’s dissertation was ‘A cross-country analysis of the relationship between racial and ethnic tolerance and economic freedom’, and she was guided in her work by Dr Carike Claassen and Prof Derick Blaauw. The topic of Dr Bezuidenhout’s thesis was ‘Essays in export behaviour at the firm level’, and her promoters were Prof Marianne Matthee and Prof Neil Rankin (Stellenbosch University).