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April 23rd, 2009

Irish Teachers: Overpaid?

Ronan Lyons gets raw on teachers' claims of being underpaid by looking at numbers rather than anecdotes.

April 23rd, 2009

EC6012 International Monetary Economics Revision Lecture

I'll hold a revision lecture in KB 1-11 at 10am on Monday, 27 April, hope you all can make it.

April 21st, 2009

Are they serious yet?

Here is MIT's Simon Johnson writing about the reality of an IMF bailout: the internal politics and the degree to […]

April 20th, 2009

EC4024, Financial Economics, Final Lecture

It's ovah! Hhere are the lecture slides for the last lecture on Friday, and I'll set up office hours next […]

April 20th, 2009

Erin Go Broke

Paul Krugman in today's NY Times writes [...]to satisfy nervous lenders, Ireland is being forced to raise taxes and slash […]

April 19th, 2009

EC6012 Problem Set 1 Answers, Marks, and Marking Scheme

Here is the marking scheme and suggested answers, and below are the marks by student number. I'll hand back the […]

April 18th, 2009

EC4024 Lecture 19: Neurofinance

The penultimate lecture takes students right up to the cutting edge of behavioural finance: neurofinance. Neurofinance is a fusion of […]

April 17th, 2009

The IMF on Crisis and Recovery

The IMF released it's World Economic Outlook report, which has some interesting things to say about the international economic situation. […]

April 16th, 2009

Environmentalists: bad for your health

Attention conservation notice: This is a bit of a rant. Perhaps I should stay away from environmentalists on radios. They […]

April 16th, 2009

We need a political system that encourages strategic thinking

WE NEED reform, not another rescue package. The mood among Government politicians following Tuesday’s Supplementary Budget is similar to that […]

April 16th, 2009

Financial Economics Lecture 18: Behavioural Finance

"We have an irrational tendency to be less willing to gamble with profits than with losses.." ––Tvede (1999) In these […]

April 10th, 2009

Why the internet is brilliant

Here are 3 lectures by Professor Joan Robinson from 1974. Joan Robinson was a member of JM Keynes' inner circle […]

April 10th, 2009

This is why blogging is brilliant

Paul Krugman shows us the three epochs of non boring banking since the 1930's, then uber historian Kevin O'Rouke posts […]

April 9th, 2009

Alcohol. Is there any better metaphor for financial fragility?

A friend sent me this description of the crisis in terms of a bar. I liked it so much I'm […]

April 9th, 2009

What is the point of the economy?

Visiting a friend's house last night, their seven year old asked what I did. I told her I was a […]

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