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Work in Progress
A Labour Market Matching Model with Multiple Criteria, with David Ramsey
Econophysics of Inequality, with EJ Nell and Matthias Greiff
What’s in a Name? with James Gleeson
Maximum Likelhood estimation of Stable Paretian Returns, with Fergal O’Brien
Firm Size Dynamics in Ireland, 1980-2005, with Helena Lenihan
Ethics in Finance: Towards Emergent Standards?
Statistical, Approximate, and Relative Equilibria
The Virtues and Vices of the Back of the Envelope, with Nick Young
Submitted/Under Review
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
Search and Selection in the Goodwin Growth Model
Published or Accepted & Forthcoming
Financial Fragility and Corporate Governance in Ireland, forthcoming in Ailbhe O’Neill Ed., Corporate Governance: An Irish Perspective, Roundhall Thomson Press.
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, 2009, with N. Young.
Ultrasound Guided Central Line Placement as Compared to Landmark Technique, Value in Health, 12(1), 97-100, 2009 January/February, 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
Many more unpublished book review are here.
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, 2009.
Conference Presentations
(Where I’ve presented the same paper more than once, the different locations are separated with a `|’, rather than starting a new line. In total 21 conferences in the last 3 years.)
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, Podcasts, & 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. Paper also presented at Teaching on the go workshop, November 28th, 2008. Screencast of that presentation 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.
Pedagogical Approaches to Theories of Endogenous versus Exogenous Money: Pluralism in Action?, `Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations – Whither Mainstream Economics?’, Berlin October 30-31. Paper also presented at `Pluralism in economics: rethinking the teaching of economics‘, October 18, 2008, City University, London.
Computable and Experimental Economics at UL, Symposium on Economics and Psychology, NUI, Maynooth, November 7th 2008.
Trepel, D., Kinsella, S., and O’Mathuna, D. Methodological Review of Cost Estimation Incorporated into Economic Evaluations within the Republic of Ireland (Protocol), The 5th Annual Cochrane Conference, Queens University, Belfast, 29-30 January, 2009.
Journalism
I write occasional pieces for national and international media, and give interviews, see the media section for details. Selected articles are below.
What life will be like in 2050 for a middle class Irish family, Irish Times, August 6, 2008
The Global Election, American Interest, November-December 2008.
Introduction to the Daft.ie Report, 4th Quarter 2008. Prepared for www.Daft.ie.
Head to Head: Can the government spend its way out of the crisis? Irish Times, November 17th, 2008
Focused strategy could rescue Limerick from Dell collapse, Irish Times, January 9, 2009