Irish Economy Conference: Learning from Crisis

Organised by ESRI, UCD, the Geary Institute, UL and the University of Stirling, the theme for this year’s conference is  “Learning from Crisis”. The venue is the Institute of Banking (map), North Wall Quay, Dublin 1 on  25th February 2015.

To cover costs of room hire and tea/coffee, there will be a charge  of 40 euros, and you can pay here. [[Please note, registration has now closed.]]

Students, unemployed, and OAPs can avail of a reduced rate of 10 euros, and can pay here. [[Please note, registration has now closed.]]

The Programme is below.

Rogoff on Greece

here.

Ideological Differences between Economists

Scott Sumner provides a valuable discussion of the shifting ideological biases of American economists in this piece.

Where did all the money channelled into property-backed lending go?

Patrick Honohan provides an accounting of the gains and losses from the property boom-bust cycle here.

Lamfalussy was right: independence and interdependence in a monetary union

Speech by Benoit Coeure here.