This lecture will introduce financial economics students to the concepts of Irish corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. The goal […]

First blog of the Bizcamplimerick event comes from the Limerick Blogger, and it's very nice. Loads of lovely tweets as […]

Turbulence Ahead puts it into context: The latest Retail Sales Index report from the CSO is - to put it […]

This lecture takes a hard look at what has happened in Iceland. from the fall of Lehman Brothers last year […]

Prof. James Hamilton digests the pure rage AIG's decision to pay its executives 165 million dollars in bonuses, some of […]

This week we'll be looking at models of interest rate determination in closed and open economies. Before we get there, though, it makes sense in the light of the forthcoming budget to think about aggregate demand, the money creation process, and especially tax financing of government deficits.

In 1962 and 1963, three papers were written incorporating international trade into the IS-LM model. The development of the model […]

Today's Financial Economics lecture gets all macro on yo'azz, as I try to get my head around why the Stability […]

Blog award winner Markham Nolan: Where better to vent your ire than an always-connected community where hordes of other foaming […]

Here's a 3 slides per page handout, the slides are below, the report I'll be shiting on about is summarised […]

We are now closing on Week 8 of the term, and things have stabilised enough in the module, and in […]

Here is the report I'll be ranting about in class, here's a 3 slide per page handout of the lecture […]

EC4024 and EC6012 Students have been emailed a link to an evaluation of my performance as a lecturer. If you […]

I've been swamped, but I'll update each of the course pages tonight, assuming a working internet connection 🙂

Here are the lecture notes in a .pdf handout, the slides are below, and freely downloadable. The ECB's policy statement […]