TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IRISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION: BLARNEY GOLF RESORT HOTEL, BLARNEY, CO CORK: 24-26 APRIL 2009
This year’s conference has a record number of submitted papers covering a wide variety of topics.
The conference Programme is now available http://www.iea.ie/conferences/iea2009programme.pdf: the booking form may be downloaded http://www.iea.ie/conferences/iea2009booking.doc. There is now very limited accommodation at the conference hotel: further information from the local organisation: ieaconference@ucc.ie
There will be two plenary guest lectures:
The Edgeworth Lecture (sponsored by the Central Bank of Ireland and Financial Services Authority of Ireland): Professor Paul Collier (University of Oxford): The Political Economy of State Failure.
The DEW/ESR Lecture: Professor James Heckman (University of Chicago and UCD Geary Institute. The Economics and Psychology of Personality .
As can be seen from the programme, there are eight sessions on macroeconomics, money and finance. As usual the conference is strong on labour economics with three sessions on the topic. In all there will be 27 sessions with 80 papers. In most cases four sessions will run in parallel.
3 replies on “Irish Economic Association Conference”
How appropriate for it to be held in a venue currently being sold by a receiver! A wonderful metaphor for the Irish economy.
We await, with breath abated, the momentous results.
Will they have any impact at all?
Should we keep economists as pets, since they don’t know a depression when they see one coming?
Bet there will be no papers on the derivatives crash of ’09?
One of the results of all this endeavour? The economy will continue to deflate……
The Blarney conference? A marvellous metaphor,just turn left at the rainbow to find the crock of gold! Latest Data seems to suggest that Obamas optimism might be a little tinged,oops