Posts from — October 2006

right click here to download the marks for the essays, by student number.

Email me if you would like to set up a time to talk about the essay before next Tuesday. Esmeralda has the essays, and will distribute them along with feedback sheets at the next 2 tutorials.
If you don’t see your student number here, perhaps you were one of the two people who forgot to put their student numbers and names on their essays. Either way, email me if you have questions.

watch the lecture as a movie or download the .pdf by right clicking the link below and choosing ’save target as’.

[Download EC4333_Lecture5_handout.pdf]

• Marginal Increase in Cost and Excess Length of Stay Associated With Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in Surviving Very Low Birth Weight Infants — Payne et al. 114 (2): 348 — Pediatrics
  Marginal Increase in Cost and Excess Length of Stay Associated With Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in Surviving Very Low Birth Weight Infants
  (tags: Health Econ, IVFPaper)
• Catching up with the Irish Hare, by P. Honohan and B. Walsh
  Godo Paper for Irish Economy Students
  (tags: UL Readings)
• Simple Cellular Automata on a Spreadsheet (CHEER v17 2005)
  Great for a class on complex systems
  (tags: UL Teaching tools Automata Cellular)
• LaTeX Tricks: Theses
  How to generate a table of notation automatically in a thesis
  (tags: PhD LaTeX math)

• UK’s first discount VoIP provider
  Free Calls. Might be Useful for US.
  (tags: web2.0)

“Something for everyone in this week’s data on housing from the Census Bureau. Pessimists will note the alarming 6% plunge during the month of September in seasonally adjusted new building permits. That one-month drop from the already low levels of August leaves them down 28% from September 2005. News this week of rising delinquencies and foreclosures provides more fuel for the pessimists’ fire.”

[via]

“…economics is not evidence-based in selecting its theoretical paradigms. Economic policy initiatives are often taken without all the empirical pre-testing that could have been done.”

[Full Text of the Article]

• JTEP | ELASTICITY
  Elasticity Measures for Travel
  (tags: UL Readings Research Sarath Review)

Watch the lecture as a movie or right click below to download the slides as a .pdf.

[Download EC4333_Lecture4_Handout.pdf]

• JSTOR: Journal of Economic Perspectives: Vol. 13, No. 4, p. [169]
  On The Complexities of Complex Economic Dynamics. Review Article of the Complexity Approach to Economics
  (tags: UL Readings Complexity)
• Doodle: Scheduling meetings
  Doodle helps scheduling meetings – it’s simple, quick, and free.
  (tags: blog daily free gtd People productivity Time web widget Work calendar collaboration web2.0)

Students interested in Europeanisation should attend this talk being given this week.

John O’Brennan, PPA

Racing to the Finish Line: Bulgaria and Romania, Europeanization, and the influence of EU Accession Conditionality

Place and time:

Daly Room, Plassey House - Wednesday 25 Octobr at 2.15 to 3.30 pm.

Click here to download a copy of the feedback form I’ll be using when grading your assignments.
This form is based on feedback forms from here and here.

• 06_Hunt_Article.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  Excellent Article on Irish Fiscal Policy
  (tags: UL Readings Teaching)
• UnixTutorials - Unix tutorials for all your needs
  (tags: documentation language mac osx programming Reference tutorial tools)

• Research Papers - The Struggle for History
  The Struggle for History, great paper by Assistant Secretary of UN & Director of DESA, Jomo KS.
  (tags: Readings)
• ScienceDirect - Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 603-712 (October 2006)
  A Journal Issue of Economic Psychology Devoted to Thomas Schelling’s Work in Game Theory
  (tags: Readings, interestingpeople)
• WDR 2006
  World Development Report This Year. Good Source of Interesting Ideas/Fun Stuff to teach.
  (tags: Teaching,)
• The Microeconomics of Income Distribution… - Google Book Search
  Another Interesting Book by same authors as WDR
  (tags: Readings)

Please answer all questions. Allot the space you give to each answer corresponding to the marks you will receive.

Answers are Due in to the Department of Economics Office, EM023, no later than 5pm on Monday 6 November.

Answers must also be emailed to stephen.kinsella@ul.ie by the same deadline.

Answers must be in Times New Roman, size 12, single spacing. Include your name and student number on the first page. This is a graded assignment.

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(a) When the original EEC 6 completed the customs union established by the Treaty of Rome, it was argued that trade creation exceeded trade diversion for industrial goods but not for agricultural goods.  Explain, using graphical analysis, why this was the case. (20 Marks)

(b) The predicted gains from the completion of the single market were much larger than the small gains estimated from the completion of the customs union.  Give three reasons why this was the case. For each reason, carefully explain the economic arguments using diagrams where appropriate (20 marks)

(c) Is there any evidence that the EU is starting to realise these gains?  Briefly explain your answer. (10 marks)

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Watch the lecture as a movie, or right click to download the .ppt below for the presentation in full.
EC6101_Lecture3_Kinsella.ppt

To access Turnitin.com’s anti-plaigiarism tools, go to

www.turnitin.com

select “new user”, entering the class ID as

1666216

and the class password as

integration (all lowercase)

All letters in the password are lowercase.

Then you can use all of the essay uploading tools, once you are in the UL network.

Watch a movie of the lecture or download it as a .ppt file by right-clicking the link below
EC6101_Lecture2.ppt
For tomorrow: Answer the Following Multiple Choice Test.
EC6101 worksheet 1 no answers-2.jpg

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
  Full Text free ebook of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes for International Political Economy Students
  (tags: EC6101, International Political Economy, Teaching, UL, Readings)
• Right Click Here to Download the Quarterly Data
  Generate Okun’s Law Data Yourself, Click this Link for a zip file of the data.
  (tags: EC6101, Data, Teaching, UL, Semester 1)
• 5/RT/01 - Potential Output and the Output Gap in Ireland
  Actual Output and Trend Potential Output, 1960-2000
  (tags: EC6101, Readings, UL Teaching)
• QEC2006Aut_Summary Table.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  ESRI’s Quaterly Economic Commentary’s Summary Statistics
  (tags: EC6101, International Political Economy, Readings)

Watch the Lecture as a movie or download a .ppt by clicking the link below.
EC3601_Lecture1_Kinsella.ppt
Today’s exercise: reconstruct the figures used in the lecture using the data in the Excel file below. This exercise is due tomorrow.
Right click to download this file:
EC6101_consumptionfunction_okunlaw.xls

• New York University - NYU - Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Department of Economics - Courses - Professor James Ramsey
  Non-Linear Dynamics and Stochastic Differential Equations
  (tags: PhD interestingpeople Algorithm stochastics)
• Excel Pivot Table Help From Mr Excel
  Finally a Decent Site about using Pivot Tables in MS Excel. Definitely a black art when used by the unwary.
  (tags: Pivot excel interestingpeople)