Dr Ntokozo P. Nzimande

Senior Lecturer
Name: Ntokozo P. Nzimande
Location: D-ring 216 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 4336

Email: ntokozon@uj.ac.za

About Dr Ntokozo P. Nzimande

Dr. Ntokozo Nzimande is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Ntokozo is a former Economic Society of Southern Africa council member and is recognized as an NRF Y-rated researcher. His research agenda centers on fiscal policy theory and practice and regional integration in Africa. Dr Nzimande has supervised several postgraduate students. He has authored several articles published in both local and international journals.

Most recent publications:
Nzimande, N.P., Yilanci, V. (forthcoming). To Starve the Beast or Not to Starve the Beast: Evidence from a Debt-Distressed Region. Journal of African Business (Revisions).
Nzimande, N.P. (forthcoming) Income Convergence in Southern Africa: A Nonlinear Time-Varying Coefficients Framework. Journal of Developing Areas.

Beck, K., Nzimande, N.P. Labor mobility and business cycle synchronization in Southern Africa. Econ Change Restruct 56, 159–179 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-022-09416-1

Fikile Dube, Ntokozo Nzimande & Paul-Francois Muzindutsi (2023) Application of artificial neural networks in predicting financial distress in the JSE financial services and manufacturing companies, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 13:1, 723-743, DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2021.2017257

Ntokozo Patrick Nzimande & Harold Ngalawa | Mariam Camarero (Reviewing Editor) (2017) The endogeneity of business cycle synchronisation in SADC: A GMM approach, Cogent Economics & Finance, 5:1, DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2017.1358914

Awards
National Research Foundation: Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration (KIC) grant, R27 000, R25000; NRF rating (Y-category), R50 000, Best Emerging Researcher (UKZN), R25 000.