Here are the notes for lecture 2, Here are the slides in 2*2 format. Apologies that there’s no recording. Please try to read Pilbeam, chapters 1-3, for next week. I’ve also posted links to the course pack and some online readings on the course page.
Now, some cool readings:
The scientific evolution of finance
Pioneers of Finance
Here are the lecture notes for the last lecture, and below is a recording of the lecture. Remember, email if you have questions, and good luck in the final exam. Thanks very much for attending lectures and giving me your feedback by text, email, twitter, and the old fashioned conversation. It’s been a blast.
Economics for [...]
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A recording of lecture 10 is here.
Also, drop Darragh an email if you’d like to take a look at your problem sets, we won’t be handing them back.
A student asked for previous lecture slides (not the in-class handouts) in the 2*2 slide format, which I wasn’t too chuffed about, but [...]
Get the lecture notes here, and a recording of the lecture is here.
From Michael Taft’s blog, which is excellent, here’s an interesting chart describing Ireland’s current situation and our policy choices in 5 weeks’ time.
The multiplier row I referred to in the lecture starts here and here, you can read the rest yourselves. The Ernst [...]
Some advice on writing from mathematician Paul Halmos:
The basic problem in writing mathematics is the same as in writing biology, writing a novel, or writing directions for assembling a harpsichord: the problem is to communicate an idea. To do so, and to do it clearly, you must hâve something to say, and you must hâve [...]
Abstract. This paper studies the age distribution of firms in Ireland from 1961 to 2009 using data on over 159,000 firms. I build a model which mixes a lognormal distribution of firm size with an exponential distribution of firm age to explain the evolution of these data. The model is fitted using maximum likelihood estimation, [...]
Also tagged Biology, Business, Empirical, Evolution, Maximum likelihood, Social Sciences, StatisticsIn this lecture, we looked at the workings of the ECB, the economics of monetary integration, and went over the problem set. Click here to get the lecture notes, and a recording of the presentation is below.
Economics of EU Integration Lecture 6 from Stephen Kinsella on Vimeo.
Also tagged ECB, Economic, European Central Bank, Eurozone, Math, Monetary policy, Social SciencesI’m not the world’s biggest rap fan, but this is brilliant.
Also tagged Gerard O'Neill, Ireland, Irish Times, Kinsella, Mathematica, Ray Hammond, Wolfram ResearchIan Wright is a researcher who combines non standard economic thinking with statistical mechanics and Mathematica simulations to draw out his points analytically. He’s my kind of chap. When I grow up, I’d like to be a bit like him. Check out his work to see why.
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I’m nominated in the education category longlist. Click the image below to see the other nominees, scroll down for the education category.
Updated. Cheers, Damien.
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