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February 24th, 2011

Peer review guidelines and templates

Mary has helpfully put together some notes on the peer review process,they are here. Please note the templates have changed, […]

February 24th, 2011

Ireland can't live with this uncertainty

One of my heroes, the mathematician John Allen Paulos, once wrote that "Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and […]

February 23rd, 2011

The deep, deep anguish of higher education « University Blog

Every academic in Ireland should read this piece by Ferdinand Von Prondzynski on his blog today: "It is time for […]

February 23rd, 2011

Lane on the Irish Crisis

Prof. Philip Lane writes on the Irish Crisis in this new paper (ht Geary Blog). All EC4024 and EC6012 students […]

February 23rd, 2011

Mortgage arrears and negative equity

Here's a recording of today's mortgage arrears and negative equity talk, with thanks again to Joe Garde at Irishdebate.com.

February 22nd, 2011

International Monetary Economics Lecture 5

Download now or preview on posterous EC6012_2011_Slides_Lecture5.pdf (1588 KB) This lecture introduces students to Stock Flow Consistent macroeconomic modeling. The […]

February 22nd, 2011

Financial Economics Lecture 5: Fat Tails

This lecture follows on from last week's rant about Zombie models in finance. Lecture notes are here. Having looked briefly […]

February 21st, 2011

Dublin Book Festival

I'm speaking at the Dublin Book Festival on the 3rd of March this year, and really looking forward to it: […]

February 21st, 2011

Models of Growth

Download now or preview on posterous GrowthModel_Examples.xls (61 KB) Here's the excel sheet showing the Harrod/Domar model, the Solow Model […]

February 20th, 2011

ISNE 2011

Every UL PhD student should attend this conference, and advanced Masters students should think seriously about attending. Here are the […]

February 20th, 2011

Lessons have been learnt -- and then quickly forgotten

Here's my piece in the Sunday Independent today. THE blanket coverage of the election has masked many smaller stories which […]

February 17th, 2011

International Monetary Economics Lecture 4

Download now or preview on posterous EC6012_2011_Slides_L4.pdf (1754 KB) This lecture looks at EMU, inflation, unemployment, and debt dynamics. We'll […]

February 17th, 2011

"Two Souls"

The 'two souls' equation I showed in class today relates the real wage divided by average labour productivity to the […]

February 16th, 2011

Reducing Dole Queues

Here's a webinar I did for the People's Economy group, along with my entry on policies to reduce unemployment. There […]

February 16th, 2011

New Irish economic policies no different to old

Only three months ago the economy was in such a state of collapse that the government had to get the […]

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