Final Year Projects
Want me to supervise your Final Year Project? Have a look at these resources first, then drop me a mail. I’m very interested in encouraging and supervising undergraduate research in a few, very defined, areas.
Lecture Notes
EC4024 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 Lecture 16: CDO, CDS, and Ireland
This lecture introduces students to the CDO and CDS markets. We’ll talk about the structure of the markets, and describe how they are affecting Ireland at the moment. Here’s a 3 slides per page handout, and the slides are below.
Ec4024 2009 Lecture 16 CDOs
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Tagged Lecture NotesFinancial 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 [...]
Intermediate Macroeconomics Guest Lecture
Here are the slides for the lecture, the mathematica demonstration I’ll use in class is here, the Forfas report I refer to is here, the Goodbody’s report is summarised here, and the handout version of the slides (3 per page) is, you guessed it, here (as a .pdf).
Intermediate Macroeconomics Guest Lecture 2
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Intermediate Macroeconomics Guest Lecture
Here are the slides for a presentation on IS-LM and Effective Demand, in the context of the Irish Economy.
EC4006 Intermediate Macroeconomics Lecture
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The first problem set for this course is here, and a handout version of the slides (look folks, no Scribd!) is here.
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Gearing up for Next Semester
Three cool things are going to happen next term. First, I’ll have the opportunity to teach Financial Economics to a group of students watching a financial meltdown. This means scrapping the entire course from last year, more or less, and going straight from the data and more physical models, like the Limit Order Only Market [...]
55 Essential Economics Websites
Excellent resource for economics students and researchers alike. Take a look.
What are the key economics websites for those teaching or studying at University?
Churchill once said that “If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions” – you could [...]
âIf I’m not learning, why go?â
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Why don’t students go to class anymore?
This is a constant refrain in faculty lounges around the world. One answer MIT surveyors found was when students didn’t feel they were learning, they didn’t go.
This is certainly because the penalty to not going to a lecture is reduced by the presence of online [...]
EC4004 Lecture 6: Business Cycles and the Macroeconomy
You’ll want to read Barro, chapter 8, before this lecture.
The business cycle is a tricky concept in economics. We pretend we can measure it, and make serious and deep efforts to understand it as a profession, but economists are largely powerless to do anything about business cycles. We experience them like anyone else. Even the [...]