Reminder: Gaspar Lecture, TCD, 9am tomorrow

reminder about tomorrow’s event – all welcome.

Address by Vitor Gaspar “Adjusting in the euro area: the Portuguese case”
Date: Thursday, 11th April
Time: 9am – 10am
Venue: The Thomas Davis Theatre, Room 2043, Ground Floor Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Portugal’s Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar will deliver an address on “Adjusting in the euro area: the Portuguese case” at 9am on Thursday April 11. The lecture will be followed by a Q+A session.

Prior to his current position, Mr Gaspar had a distinguished economics career at the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the Central Bank of Portugal.

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Chapter 4: Breaking through the Frontier: Can Today’s Dynamic Low-Income Countries Make It?

Results of the Eurosystem’s first Household Finance and Consumption Survey

interesting summary here.  (Ireland will be included in the 2013 wave.)

The economic legacy of Mrs Thatcher

Nick Crafts provides his account here.

The ECB’s non-standard monetary policy measures: the role of institutional factors and financial structure

New ECB WP here.