Major Public Economics Conference at NUIG

The 10th Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory takes place at NUI Galway between June 17th and June 20th this year. It will feature over 370 presentations from many of the most prominent economists working in public economics. Presenters include Dennis Mueller, Richard Cornes, Ted Bergstrom, Masimo Morelli and Serge Kolm and there will be plenary talks from Ehud Kalal, Hubert Kempf and Andres Mas-Colell. A preliminary programme is available on the conference web site.

The first registration deadline is May 5th after which registration fees increase by €50. There is a generous discount for students. Registration can only be completed through the conference web site.

Please contact either of the local organizers – Ashley Piggins (ashley.piggins at nuigalway.ie) or Brendan Kennelly (brendan.kennelly at nuigalway.ie) if you have any questions.

The ESRI’s new forecasts

The executive summary of the latest quarterly economic commentary from the ESRI is here.   The Irish Times report is here , while Jim O’Leary provides some commentary here.

Monthly Fiscal Projections for 2009

You can find out the projections for monthly spending,  tax revenue and debt servicing for the rest of 2009 from this new release.

Government Criticism of the IMF

Government ministers have been saying some pretty silly things about the IMF’s estimates of the fiscal cost of the measures taken to solve the banking crisis.

Barry Eichengreen on economics

Barry has a very nice piece here.