link The lads in Group 4 point me to an increasingly scary set of numbers. First, look at the CDS […]

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To correct this, we'll be spending more time in tutorials on interpreting what the figures/formulas/etc. mean.

...If you feel I've made a mistake adding up your mark, or you don't see your student number there, or you want to talk about your exam, drop me a mail and we can set up an appointment to figure it out.

Here's some of the audio from today's lecture. And here are my responses to the texts I got: sorry I […]

I was asked the other day by a reporter if NAFTA had been a good thing or a bad thing […]

Here are slides from a paper we'll be presenting at this year's Irish Economic Association Conference on April 25-27 in Westport, Co.

... Anybody interested in working with me to quantify the results the model predicts in the real world, drop me a mail.

"The Paper Wall: Newspapers and Propaganda in Ireland 1919-1921" (Ian Kenneally)

... This book is going to be a big one, folks.

"You know, we're not used to this, not having enough food," said Orresta, with a hint of embarrassment in her voice.

...You can see from Gapminder that Argentina has had a rough ride in terms of GDP per capita over the last 50 years.

In week, nine, I'll give two lectures, in which we will build up a simple macrodynamic model and expose it to comparative and dynamic statics, doing some numerical examples along the way.

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We'll look at the national accounts, how fluctuations in the economy are measured, look at some of these measurements, and talk a little about economic growth through the story of Ireland.

...For example, total private consumption in an economy over a period of time, $C$, is the sum of all the goods and services consumed in the economy by households in a given period, say, a year.

This week, we make two big strides in that direction, bringing in a two region economy in the model REG, and developing the conditions for the full-blown open economy model OPEN.

... In particular, we are interested in why the evolution of a North-South regional economy is different to a single-region portfolio choice model without expectations.

Impermanence appears to be the most enduring feature of the human condition, and if there is one lesson that we […]

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