EC4024 Problem Set Marks
Click below to find the (revised) problem set marks (both are out of 100) well done to everyone, any questions, please email me.
Tagged EC4024EC4024
What will Irish Graduates do Next Year?
Liam and the lads at the Geary Blog ask the question, and I’d like to ask our UL students—what will you do next year, as you graduate? PhD? MA? Work? Travel? Here’s a little survey gizmo to start, and if you’ve something more to add, please leave a comment.
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If you graduate from a UL program [...]
EC4024, Financial Economics, Final Lecture
It’s ovah!
Hhere are the lecture slides for the last lecture on Friday, and I’ll set up office hours next week.
Thanks to everyone for making this an interesting class to teach!
EC4024 Lecture 19: Neurofinance
The penultimate lecture takes students right up to the cutting edge of behavioural finance: neurofinance.
Neurofinance is a fusion of behavioural economics and neuroeconomics.
I know that’s not too helpful yet. Behavioural economics in its modern incarnation looks at persistent deviations from the basic description of the hyper rational homo economicus. Proponents of the theory argue that [...]
The IMF on Crisis and Recovery
The IMF released it’s World Economic Outlook report, which has some interesting things to say about the international economic situation. Pay particular attention to page 105, where they contrast today’s economic outlook with the Great Depression. This report resonates well with the recent work of O’Rourke and Eichengreen, too.
Tagged EC4024, EC6012, GeneralFinancial Economics Lecture 18: Behavioural Finance
“We have an irrational tendency to be less willing to gamble with profits than with losses..”
––Tvede (1999)
In these lectures, we’ll build on the insights of the Efficient and Adaptive Markets hypotheses, and have a go at puling them down at the same time. This might sound contradictory, but it’s not. All science (even a pseudo-science [...]
Tagged EC4024EC4024 Lecture 17 The ECB and Investor Behaviour
Tomorrow’s lecture will review the functions of the ECB and discuss the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy with regard to the interaction of the central bank and very large, institutional investors. We’ll use pensions as an example of a very large institutional fund which has direct effects on the population when things go wrong.
Here’s a [...]
EC4024 Financial Economics Problem Set 2
Here’s problem set 2, get your excel on folks. It’s due in on Monday, 20th April.
ec4024_2009_PS2.pdf
Data
Dollar Euro.xls
Ryanair vs’ Bank of Ireland.xls
Sterling Euro.xls
Financial Economics Lecture 15: Corporate Governance & Financial Fragility in Ireland
This lecture will introduce financial economics students to the concepts of Irish corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. The goal is to show how lax corporate governance and financial fragility as defined by Minsky interact. Given the recent episodes in our indigenous banking sector, this lecture is pertinent, timely, and practical.
Here is a 3 slides [...]