The Labour Party is sponsoring a debate in the Dail on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings this week on NAMA. The motion will call for the temporary nationalisation of the banks covered by the State guarantee.
You may follow the debate live on the web at www.oireachtas.ie. The times are 7pm to 8.30 pm on both Tuesday and Wednedays evenings this week May 12 and 13th May.
Roel Beetsma, Massimo Guiliodori and Peter Wierts have just released a very interesting paper that examines the gap between announced fiscal plans and final fiscal outcomes for a panel of EU member countries. These authors find that ‘implementation errors’ are sizeable and in fact fiscal outcomes tend to be more correlated with these errors than with the original plans. Recommending reading: you can download it here.
Paddy Power has the betting, including some cross overs from academia and other non-media backgrounds: more details here.
Brendan McDonagh of the NTMA takes on the role: more details here.