Nobel Laureate, Prof Robert Fry Engle III, Honorary Doctor (PhD hc) – University of Johannesburg
On 19 February 2018 the University of Johannesburg conferred an honorary doctorate on Prof Engle, 2003 Nobel laureate in economics, in recognition of his pioneering discovery of a method for analysing unpredictable movements in financial market prices and interest rates. Prof Engle’s research has also brought into being, innovative statistical methods such as co-integration, common features, autoregressive conditional duration and more recently, dynamic conditional correlation models. “ “I’m fortunate to be in South Africa in a time of excitement and new possibilities and I applaud UJ for its leading play in improving education for its students, for South Africa and the pan-African agenda”.
On 21 February 2018 Nobel Laureate 2003, Prof Robert Fry Engle III, now also, Honorary Doctor (PhD hc) at the University of Johannesburg, delivered a public lecture that was hosted by the School of Economics in College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg.
