This article provides an interesting overview of some of the issues raised by “big data” research – here.
Month: September 2013
This article may be of interest to the readership – here.
Open thread on the five-year anniversaries of the second half of September 2008 (Lehman; AIG; Iceland; Ireland; …)
My colleague Tom Flavin and I are preparing a paper for the Dublin Economic Workshop on the financial characteristics of Irish Mortgage defaults. The analysis relies on a donation of anonymized data on mortgage arrears from Permanent TSB and we are grateful to them for their assistance. Tom will give a fuller account of our data analysis at the conference; this blog entry highlights some of the strong evidence for a very substantial proportion of strategic arrears in Irish mortgage arrears.