The FT provides a detailed analysis of the state of the German banking system here.
Here‘s an article I wrote for Business and Finance on the ongoing negotiations with the EU and the IMF. I wrote the article before last Thursday and have to admit to being a bit less positive now that I was when I wrote it but the general point about the need for a careful approach to ongoing negotiations over the coming year or so still stands.
Garret FitzGerald recently referred to celebrity economists. Who might they be? According to one definition, a celebrity economist is more often cited by journalists and bloggers than by fellow economists in academic papers — the thought being that social visibility should be proportional to academic impact, or that lay perception of expertise should be related to peer recognition.
I picked 15 names of Ireland-based economists, google-newsed and publish-and-perished them. Here are the results.
Table 1. Number of hits in Google News, number of citations in Publish-or-Perish (i.e., Google Scholar) and Celebrity Index.
| News | P&P | Celeb | |
| D. McWilliams | 1188 | 44 | 27.00 |
| R. Lyons | 119 | 5 | 23.80 |
| C. Gurdgiev | 113 | 17 | 6.65 |
| S. Kinsella | 31 | 5 | 6.20 |
| C. McCarthy | 710 | 139 | 5.11 |
| J. Fitzgerald | 571 | 393 | 1.45 |
| A. Barrett | 350 | 978 | 0.36 |
| B. Lucey | 199 | 628 | 0.32 |
| M. Kelly | 201 | 767 | 0.26 |
| A. Ahearne | 142 | 1119 | 0.13 |
| J. McHale | 62 | 928 | 0.07 |
| K. Whelan | 122 | 2000 | 0.06 |
| R. Tol | 242 | 6412 | 0.04 |
| P. Lane | 84 | 7384 | 0.01 |
| J. Markusen | 3 | 14573 | 0.00 |
Venue: Economic and Social Research Institute, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland
Date: 30 May 2011
Programme
14:00 Introduction
Richard Tol
14:15 Environmental pressure by household type
Sean Lyons and Richard Tol
14:45 Vegetarians in the UK and Ireland
Eimear Leahy, Sean Lyons and Richard Tol
15:15 Spatial pressures on the environment
Edgar Morgenroth
15:45 Break
16:15 Energy use in industry
Liam Murphy and Stefanie Haller
16:45 The impact of smart meters
Conor Devitt, Sean Lyons and Anne Nolan
17:15 General discussion
Entrance is free. All are welcome. For planning purposes, please register if you intend to attend this seminar.
I will give a public lecture on this topic tomorrow evening (Wednesday April 6) at 6.30pm, as part of the Henry Grattan Lecture Series of TCD’s Policy Institute.
Venue: Jonathan Swift Theatre (Room 2041A), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
More details here.