This week's lecture will be cancelled, instead I'll record Lecture 11 and put it on the web at www.vimeo.com/stephenkinsella. In […]

I'm teaching two modules this semester, the module pages are here: EC4024, Financial Economics EC6012, International Monetary Economics

With apologies for the lateness, below are the problem set marks. Please note the (re)marks for PS1, if you're effected […]

Liam and the lads at the Geary Blog ask the question, and I'd like to ask our UL students---what will […]

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

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

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

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

Here's the second problem set for International Monetary Economics. There are 4 questions. Questions 1-3 are compulsory, question 4 is […]

Here's a fully worked out past exam with questions and answers, to give students a sense of the type of […]

Here's part 1 of a two part lecture on a new paper describing how we should think about modeling a […]

Here are the lecture notes for the lecture And here is the presentation Wealth Effects, Government Budget Constraints, and Ben […]

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.

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