Lectures
Below you find lecture notes on macroeconomics, political economics, panel data and research methods.
(Fiscal) austerity, autocracy (consolidation) and (successful) democracies - EKN 781
Semester: spring
Offered: 2025
In this honors guest lecture, Manoel covers three political economy papers on fiscal austerity and the rise of the Nazi party, the role of the autobahn construction in consolidating the Nazi autocracy and the importance of successful democracies in breeding their own support. In addition, during an interlude he shows the students South African data on growth, governance, inequality and citizen support for democracy and relate them to the papers.
Economic growth - macroeconomics EKN 214
Semester: fall
Offered: 2025
In this second-year macro guest lecture, Manoel covers Solow, Mankiw, Romer and Weil, and the Romer models of exogenous and endogenous growth. At the end he shows the students some South African data on growth, education, patents, TFP and international trade and relate them to the models.
Inaugural lecture: Africa, economics and development
Semester: spring
Offered: 2019
Manoel’s inaugural lecture. He talks about African contemporaneous development. But to talk about African contemporaneous development, he got to talk about the role of pre-colonial institutions, and the slave trade, and the scramble for Africa, and also about the colonial institutions themselves. To understand African contemporaneous development - and ultimately to influence policy - we must have African historical development in mind. For that, new datasets, new methods and modern Economics can really help. He shows how the literature on African economic development has evolved since the 1990s and how his teaching and research take the latest scientific developments into account.