Lorraine 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.

Qualifications:

• BCom (Economics), 

• BCom Hons (Economics), 

• MCom (Economics); 

• DCom (Economics) (Rand Afrikaans University).

Research interests:

• Areas of specialization are Macroeconomics, Macroeconometrics, Quantitative Analysis and Applied Econometrics, Development Policy Issues in South Africa and Economics History (Cliometrics). 
• Scholarship of teaching and Learning and Recipinet of Vice-Chanceloor Award for Esteemed 

Professional membership: 

She is involved with the academic community through academic membership in Societies, NRF, advisory committees and academic reading for various journals. 

Research Databases / Publications:

De Wet, GL and Greyling, L.1984. Inflation and real rates of return on Investment in South Africa, SA Research Report. Johannesburg. 

De Wet, GL, and Greyling, L. 1988. Inflation in South Africa. SA Journal of Economics. 

Greyling, L and Schmulow, A. 1996. The impact of Labour Law Reforms and government tax and spending policies on South African international economic competitiveness. National Productivity Institute, World Productivity Assembly. SA. September 1996. 

Greyling, L and Schmulow, A. 1996. Monetary Policy in the New South Africa: Economic and Political Constraints. SA Journal of Economics. 

Van Zyl G and Greyling L. 1997.  The Use of the Interest Rate-Investment Relationship for Business Cycle Forecast: The Case of the South African Economy, pp. 241-258.Social and Structural Change: Consequences for Business Cycle Surveys, Selected Papers Presented at the 23rd Ciret Conference, Helsinki, 1997, Edited by Karl Heinrich Oppenlander and Gunter Poser, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot England, ISBN 1-84014-536-6,  

Chetty, S and Greyling, L. 2001. Uncertainty and expectations in fixed investment behaviour. SA Journal of Economics, Vol 69, March 2001. 

Botha, I, Greyling, L, Marais, DJ. 2006.  Modelling the business cycle in South Africa:  A non-linear approach. Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Volume 30 No2, pp103-126 

 L. Greyling, L Bonga-Bonga and M. Perold. 2008.   A CGE Simulation of a Flat Tax as a Possibility for Tax Reform in South Africa., The UJ Journal for Applied Economic and Econometric Research, ISSN 1996-1251, Volume 3, 4th Edition, pp. 5-26 

Van Zyl G, Bonga-Bonga L and Greyling L. 2008.  A CGE Analysis of Fiscal Policy in South Africa, The UJ Journal for Applied Economic and Econometric Research, ISSN 1996-1251, Volume 3, Edition 2, 2008, pp. 44 – 59. 

Mears, R, Greyling, L, Maleka, MR. 2009. Income and Expenditure Pattern of Selected Rural Villages in the Nwanedi River Basin.The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 5, pp.71-96. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 1.410MB). 

Greyling, L, Mears, R. 2014. Demographic characteristics of Soweto: a comparison of 1993 and 2008. Journal of Emerging Issues in Economics, Finance and Banking (ISSN: 2306-367X). Vol: 3. Issue 6: 1290-1309 

Greyling, L and Verhoef, G. 2015. Slow growth, supply shocks and structural change: The GDP of the Cape Colony in the late nineteenth century. EDHR. Vol.30. Issue 1: 23 – 43. 

Oluwajodu, F, Blaauw, D, Greyling, L and Kleynhans, EPJ. 2015. Graduate unemployment in South Africa: Perspectives from the banking sector. SA Journal of Human Resource Management/SA Tydskrif vir Menslikehulpbronbestuur, 13(1) Art. #656, 9 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ SAJHRM.v13i1.656 

Magee, G, Greyling, L, Verhoef, G. 2016. South Africa in the Australian Mirror: Per capita Real GDP in the Cape Colony, Natal, Victoria and New South Wales, 1861-1909. The Economic History Review. September 2016. 

Zwane, T, Greyling, L, Maleka, MR. 2016. The Determinants of Household Savings in South Africa: A Panel Data Approach. International Business and Economics Research Journal. Vol 15 Number 4 

Greyling, L, Verhoef, G. 2016. Savings and economic growth: a historical analysis of the relationship between savings and economic growth in the Cape Colony economy, 1850-1909. Economic History of Developing Regions. (manuscript ID is EHDR-2016-0002.R2.) 

Greyling, L, Verhoef, G. 2017. Savings and economic growth: a historic analysis of the Cape Colony economy, 1850 -1909. Economic History of Developing Regions, 32:2, 127-176, DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2017.1327808 

Makhoba BP, Kaseeram I, Greyling, L. 2019. Assessing the impact of Fiscal Policy on Economic Growth in South Africa. African Journal of Business and Economic Research. Vol:4. Issue 1 March: 7 – 29 

Zungu, T, Greyling, L, Sekome, S. 20202. Government expenditure and economic growth: Testing for nonlinear effect among SADC countries, 1993 – 2017. Journal of Business and Economic Research. Vol:15. Issue 3 September: Forthcoming