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 [...]
Prof. James Hamilton digests the pure rage AIG’s decision to pay its executives 165 million dollars in bonuses, some of them to people who no longer worked for AIG. Hamilton writes:
“One of the reasons this is so outrageous is that the promise of such bonuses was in fact one of the very factors that caused [...]
This is the last lecture of the course. We’ll look at Ireland in the EU, and do a recap of the course.
Most Irish people drive past the blue signs along new roads up and down the country, indicating that “This project was co-financed by the EU”. Since joining in 1973, the difference between what Ireland [...]
In this lecture, we will introduce students to the institutional, legal and political context of enlargement within the EU, and preview and examine the fifth enlargement’s likely effects. We will examine the preconditions for reform, and develop a simple model of development, trade policy, and mobility.
Over the weeks we’ve seen a series of increasingly analytical approaches to exploring [...]
EC4333 Students should find this interesting:
Nice one.
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Here is the Solow spreadsheet to use in question 1. Click here to download it.
Instructions
This problem set is worth 15\% of your final grade.
Work in groups, but hand in your own work.
Submit your work via email to neal.kilbane@ul.ie, and in hardcopy to the departmental office, [...]
Tuppenceworth is liveblogging the Oireachtas meeting on Ireland’s future in the EU.
EC4333 students should check it out here.
(HT, Slugger O’Toole)
We have seen how the EU has affected economic growth and development across the EU in previous lectures. In this lecture, we will examine how the EU affects the social fabric of its constituent societies, through a series of cohesion funds. We will look at the definitions of inequality in the economics literature, develop some [...]
Tagged EU, European Atomic Energy Community, European Coal and Steel Community, European Commission, European Social Fund, European Union, Treaties of Rome, Treaty of ParisEC4333 students, take a look at the page I’m linking to here, it’s very important for the course.
European Commission – Economic and Financial Affairs – Economic Forecast autumn 2008: growth comes to a standstill in the wake of the financial crisis