Cross posted at the TASC-blog. It is almost never correct to sacrifice a present benefit for a doubtful advantage in […]

IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholarships 2010 Call Open 4rth year and Masters students in UL, as well as interested researchers in other […]

Click here to get the module notes as a handout, and a recording of the lecture is below. Economics for […]

"Competent economists are the rarest of birds...The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts...He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, […]

The primary objective of the National Asset Management Agency is to increase the flow of credit to the ‘real’ economy […]

In this lecture we went over the concepts of game theory, Nash equilibrium, Subgame Perfect Equilibrium, solution of games by […]

Just ahead of next week's EC4004 jump into inequality and macroeconomics, here's a great talk on the processes of actually […]

Image by Ravages via Flickr Here's an interview I did about the writing of Ireland in 2050. When did the […]

Just a quick reminder that there are no lectures or tutorials Tuesday and Wednesday this week, for either Economics for […]

This is problem set 1, it is due Monday October 26th, by 3pm, to the departmental office, KB 3-22a. It […]

Here are the worksheets for weeks 5 and 6, respectively.

Image via Wikipedia In this lecture we introduce game theory, following recap over the risk and insurance parts of the […]

Image via Wikipedia Assuming an EMU, what are the economic effects of one? We saw last week that the EU […]

Here's my rant on TV3 about Ireland in 2050 earlier this week, and here's a piece in the Irish Examiner […]

Image via Wikipedia In this lecture we looked at the economics of preferential liberalisation, the economics of monetary union, EMU, […]