Professor Gerry Hughes, RIP

Prof. Gerry Hughes passed away on Friday. The funeral notice is here. A brief summary of his career is available from the ESRI here.

Gerry Hughes was awarded a Research Fellowship from the ESRI from 1977 to 1979. He was at the ESRI from 1968 (taking secondment to the NESC in the 1970s) and retired as a Research Professor in 2006. His ESRI publications may be accessed on the ESRI web-site. Since retiring from the Institute he has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin and also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, University College Cork. His research is on the effects of pension financing on national savings and on the cost and distributional effects of tax expenditure on private pensions.

He remained active in retirement and was a recent recipient of the Miriam Hederman O’Brien Prize from the Foundation for Fiscal Studies for work on pensions with Micheál Collins of UCD.

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Gerry’s generosity of spirit was manifested among others in the huge time and effort he gave as adviser and support to the young staff in the New Staff Development Programme of the Department of Economics, UCC over more than a decade

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