Ireland’s population will get older, as these cool graphs from Aidan Kane show. The bloggers from caing.com define ‘Japan disease’, where an economy is full of aging workers, and also highly indebted. How likely is it Ireland could contract a mild form of Japan Disease in the next 20-40 years?
From Any Xie’s post:
An economy ages [...]
Here are the lecture notes for the class, here is an updated version of the excel sheet used in class, and below are some cool readings on business cycles. Here’s a recording of the lecture.
Business Cycles and the Macroeconomy
Christina Romer: Business Cycles
CEPA: Business Cycles
NBER: Business Cycle Dating
Here are the slides for lecture 13, here’s the excel sheet I’ll use in class tomorrow, here are the slides for lecture 14, and here is the second problem set, due Monday, April 5 Tuesday, April 6, (thanks Andres for pointing out Monday’s a Bank Holiday). Lateness won’t be tolerated, you’ll lose 10% per day [...]
This conference held at Fordham (and blogged by Rortybomb and BaselineScenario) has some really interesting presentations. Students of EC6012 and EC4024 should definitely check these out, they are relevant to this and next week’s lectures.
Here’s Simon Johnson of MIT on the Doom (aka: Minsky) Cycle:
Simon Johnson on the Doom Cycle (MMBM) from Roosevelt Institute on [...]
I’m obsessed interested in Irish public policy, especially its effect on Ireland’s long term challenges. So the Innovation Task Force report, which comes as an instantiation of the government’s Smart Economy strategy document. I scanned the document five minutes after it came out, and overall wasn’t impressed with it, because, like the Smart Economy document, [...]
For students who missed the EC6012 midterm this week, we’ll do a resit on Monday at 11 in KB-1-11. Please bring all relevant medical certs, etc, to the exam.
Tagged EC6012, International Monetary EconomicsThe Midterm resit will be held from 4-5 in HSG-037, right after the lecture. Please note you’ll need to show me a medical cert to take the exam.
Tagged EC4024In the interests of maintaining sanity, I’ll put the second problem set up next Monday to give everyone a breather.
I gather 2nd Year economics majors have been mid-termed and projected out this and last week.
Here’s a presentation I’m giving as a keynote for the International Women’s Day Conference here at UL on Monday, March 8th. I’m speaking at 10am. The talk is based in part on my book, and a few blog posts.
Click here to get the notes, the important reading for this lecture is Pilbeam, Chapter 4. Have a look at historical exchange rates here, get the mathematica demonstration I used here, and check Wolfram|Alpha for the Bond Pricing examples I used. Finally, here’s a very scary chart from FRED on the US money supply. I’ll [...]