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I teach economics at the <A HREF=”http://www.ul.ie/”>University of Limerick</A>, where I am a Junior Lecturer in the <A HREF=”http://www.ul.ie/business/departments/ec/economics.shtml”>Kemmy Business School</A>. This site is primarily for students at UL. You can <a href=”mailto:stephen.kinsella@ul.ie”>email me</a> if you have any questions.

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Aim. I have 4.5 functions my site must be able to perform. Right now http://stephenkinsella.net does none of these particularly well, because web design isn’t my day job.

Teaching Pages: Podcasts/Lecture Notes/Some stuff shouldn’t appear in the main pages, etc, but I don’t want to keep editing pages the whole time. I [...]

links for 2009-08-30

The financial factor – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
Brilliant link to a new paper by Phillipon and Reshef showing wage changes in finance correlated with deregulations in finance.
(tags: ec4004_2009)

links for 2009-08-10

Is Basel II Enough? The Benefits of a leverage ratio
contrast piece with Theory of Leverage Cycles AER paper from 2008.
(tags: economics EC6012 EC4004)

FT.com | FTfm blog | Recession, what recession?
Nice Anecdote—recessions don't hit everyone at the same time, speed, or with anything like the same ferocity (eg. one college lecturer, your humble servant).
(tags: economics recession [...]

links for 2009-08-09

Putting NAMA to Work for Irish Competitiveness – Fergal's Blog
Nice think piece on Nama, good contrast with Karl Whelan's Sindo post from Sunday 9, 2009.
(tags: economics irish+economy nama)

http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/festschrift/Papers/Stig-Solow.pdf
Solow: Dumb and Dumber in Macroeconomics. Expository Essay on old school macro, foreshadows current crisis by 6 years.
(tags: economics macro EC4004)

There's something about macro
Krugman's exposition of basic [...]

links for 2009-06-16

Meir Kohn – Dartmouth – Economics
New Book on Development in China and the West by Kohn
(tags: economics books history)

links for 2009-05-21

The demographic effects of international migration in Europe — Coleman 24 (3): 452 — Oxford Review of Economic Policy
(tags: ec4333)

Unemployment compensation and high European unemployment: a reassessment with new benefit indicators — Howell and Rehm 25 (1): 60 — Oxford Review of Economic Policy
(tags: ec4333)

links for 2009-05-20

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
(tags: abuse+report)

The Kemmy Business School’s new BBS by Flexible Learning is on Twitter

How cool is this? Follow away.
BBS by Flexible Learning Open Evening in UL Tuesday 26th May 5.30pm-7.30pm in the Kemmy Business School
Twitter / KBS: BBS by Flexible Learning O …

Paul Krugman is Reading Minsky

Expect the econo-blogosphere to go nuts tearing Minsky apart or trying to put him together, now that PK is on the case.
I’ve given some lectures on Minsky’s ideas as applied to the Irish case, but the best place to get the man’s ideas is in his magnum opus. Which I think is pretty well [...]

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