Year: 2012

Two interesting events at the ESRI:

ESRI Seminar: “Macro-Prudential Policy and Credit: the Right Question but the Wrong Answer”
Speaker: Ray Barrell (Brunel)
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 18/06/2012
Time: 4 pm

Joint ESRI/IIIS TCD Lecture “Globalisation, Growth Strategies and the Financial Crisis”
Speaker: Arvind Virmani
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 19/06/2012
Time: 4 pm

Albert Ritschl has written a very informative response to the NYT op-ed by Hans-Werner Sinn in this Free Exchange post.  (See also Karl’s post here.)

A while back (in pre-crisis days), Tim Guinnane wrote a nice paper on the 1953 London Debt Agreement – available here.

Seamus McGuinness and Philip O’Connell provide a critique of the estimates of Crilly, Pentecost and Tol in this note.

The IMF’s Sixth Review of the Extended Arrangement with Ireland can be read here.

This annual event sees various ECB analysts from academia and the private sector interact with ECB officials.

The programme is here, with various presentations available for download.