Junior Lecturer in Economics, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland.
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Research

Click the links below to download working papers, code and appendices of my work.

Submitted/Under Review

Using Mathematica to Explore the Mathematics of Modern Growth Theory,

Ten Lessons for Micro Costing in Health Economics

Micro cost measurement of RSV Bronchiolitis in the Mid West, with F. McElligott, A. Mirza and R. K. Philip

What is the Optimal Incidence of Taxation in Coupled Markets? with David Ramsey.

Economic Effects on Stock Returns: Evidence from India with Simon Hanrahan

Teaching Heterodox Economics Using Problem Based Learning

Logarithms

Search and Selection in the Goodwin Growth Model

Tuning Inequality

Published or Accepted & Forthcoming

Many to One: Using the Mobile Phone to Interact with Large Classes. British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008. Get the software here. See the screencast here. See a presentation of the paper here.

Reconciling Newtonian and Simonian Concepts of Space: Some Questions for Dr. Downes, Journal of Cybernetics, 2008

A Clinical and Economic Analysis of Emergency Physician-Performed Ultrasonography in the Setting of Cholecystitis, Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2008, with N. Young.

Ultrasound Guided Central Line Placement as Compared to Landmark Technique, Value in Health, 2008, with N. Young

The Margins of Viability, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2006;175(4), October/November/December issue. pgs. 63—69. See a presentation of the paper here.

Conference Proceedings

Subgame perfection in Semantic Web Services, XII International Conference on Computing (CIC, 2004). Mexico City, Mexico. October 13-

15, 2004, with Juan Gomez, published in papers & proceedings & as a book chapter.

Tuning Inequality, with EJ Nell, paper presented to the Eastern Economics Association, Feb 22-25, 2006 New York City. Published in proceedings.

Technical Reports for the Digital Enterprise Research Institute

Comparative Study of Electronic Market Efficiency, DERI Technical Paper D16.04, June 2005

Survey of Salience of Extant Approaches to Digital Enterprises from Evolutionary Economics, Bounded Rationality and Satisficing Approaches, DERI Technical Paper D17.09, July, 2004

Other papers

Hedgehog Logic, Student Economic Review , 2001 (won best original article)

Book Reviews

The (Mis) Behaviour of Markets, European Journal of Political Economy, 2005 ,pgs 797-799

Prospects for Monetary Union after the Euro, Review of Political Economy, 2006

Innovation, Unemployment and Policy in the Theories of Growth and Distribution, Review of Political Economy, 2006.

The Divergent Dynamics of Economic Growth, Review of Political Economy, 2006.

High Resolution Economic Sociology, Challenge, May/June, 2007.

The Black Swan, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2008.

Conference Presentations

(Where I’ve presented the same paper more than once, the different locations are separated with a | )

Subgame perfection in Semantic Web Services, XII International Conference on Computing (CIC, 2004). Mexico City, Mexico. October 13-

15, 2004.

Tuning Inequality, Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference, Feb 22-25, 2006

The Methodology of a Computable Economist, INEM Bi-Annual Conference, June 22-23, 2006.

The Margins of Viability, KBS Research Conference, Wednesday 16th May 2007 | Irish Pediatric Association Annual Meeting November 18, 2006, | Health Systems Research Inaugural Conference December 12, 2007, | 12th Italian Health Economics Association Conference, University of Florence, Italy, 18-19 October 2007. Posters & Slides here.

Teaching Heterodox Economics Using Problem Based Learning and Weblogs, UCD Teaching Colloquium, December 7, 2007. Slides and paper here.

Optimal Incidence of Taxation in Coupled Markets, Paper presented at the Irish Economic Association Annual Conference, April 25-27, 2008. Slides here.

The Economic Implications of RSV Bronchiolitis in the Midwest, Irish Pediatric Association Meeting November 16, 2007, | ESRI Seminar, May 15, 2008. Slides here.

CIFREM Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling and Finance, Trento, Italy, May 19, 20. Details here.

Many to One: Teaching Large Groups using Mobile Phones. Presentation to the UL Teaching Enhanced Learning workshop, June 17 and 18, 2008. Slides here. Screencast of the application here.

Characterising the Complexity of Ecommerce Markets, Probabilistic Political Economy in the 21st Century, Kingston University, July 13-16 2008. This is Chapter 2 of my NUI, Galway Ph.D Thesis.

Using Mathematica to Explore the Mathematics of Modern Growth Theory, Mathematica Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, September 15, 2008.