The current issue of Intereconomics has a series of stories about the politics of adjustment in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. Niamh Hardiman and Aidan Regan discuss the Irish case. It’s well worth reading all of the cases for those of us engaged in the current debate, to see similarities and differences in the approaches. It’ll help those of us (read: me) engaged in teaching this stuff as well.
Niamh will also be speaking on this theme at tomorrow’s Irish Economy conference.
Conference on Irish Economic Policy
Institute of Bankers, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
February 1st
On February 1st 2013, the Dublin Economics Workshop, in conjunction with Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the Department of Economics at the University of Limerick (UL) and the Geary Institute at UCD is hosting a conference on Irish economy policy at the Institute of Bankers.
The conference will explore current issues in economic policy in key areas: Education and Children, Industrial Policy, Unemployment/Social Protection, Economics and Evaluation, and the Political Economy of Austerity. The outline programme is set out below.
The conference aims to provide a forum for discussion of new ideas on the conduct of Irish economic policy, including the extent to which economics and related disciplines can make a greater contribution to the conduct of economic policy in Ireland, and the extent to which policy can be designed more effectively. The speakers and chairs come from a range of institutions and disciplines and there also be online access to presentations to ensure to enable debate through blogs and twitter. There is no charge for the conference. Coffee will be provided free of charge mid-morning and there will be a break at 12.45 to enable participants to take lunch.
To register for the conference, please email: emma.barron@ucd.ie . Advance registration is essential for attendance at the conference, i.e., is required for entry to the facilities.
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9.15- 9.45 |
Registration and Opening |
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9.45-10.45 |
1. Education and Children |
2. Industrial Policy |
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CHAIR: Minister Frances Fitzgerald (D/Children and Youth Affairs)
1. Orla Doyle (UCD/Geary) Experimental Evidence on the Early Effectiveness of Intervention in Childhood 2. Emer Smyth (ESRI) School factors and student outcomes: insights from longitudinal research |
CHAIR: Declan Hughes (Forfás)
1. Donal Palcic & Eoin Reeves (UL) Privatisation: past performance and prospects. 2. Fergal McCann SMEs in Ireland: Contributions, Credit and Economic Crisis (Central Bank) |
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10.45-11.15 |
Coffee |
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11:15-12:45 |
3. The Labour Market |
4. Economics and Evaluation |
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CHAIR: John McKeon (D/Social Protection) 1. Eilish Kelly (ESRI), Seamus McGuiness (ESRI), Philip O’Connell (UCD/Geary) Activation in Ireland: Are we on the Right Path? 2. Bryan Fanning (UCD) Why did Ireland become so open to immigration? 3. Frank Walsh (UCD) The union wage premium in Ireland
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CHAIR: Frances Ruane (ESRI)
1. Ronnie Downes (D/Public Expenditure and Reform) Economics & Evaluation in the Public Service – Capacity and Commitment? 2. Gail Birkbeck (Atlantic Philantrophies) Evaluating Services and Expenditures in the Social sector 3. Helena Lenihan (UL), Evaluating the impact of enterprise/industrial policy supports: developing new methods and approaches
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12.45-14.00 |
Lunch Break |
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14.00-16.00 |
Plenary Session: Political Economy of Austerity |
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CHAIR: Robert Watt (D/Public Expenditure and Reform)
1. Niamh Hardiman (UCD) The politics of austerity budgets 2. Michael Taft (UNITE) The Great Stagnation 3. Frank Barry (TCD), European Integration and Austerity 4. Colm McCarthy, Dubrovnik International University, What Kind of Banking Union for the Eurozone? |
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(We’ll be updating the conference programme as provisional titles come in).
The podcast and slides from the session on demography at the Friday conference are below.
Chair: Kevin Denny (UCD)
Orla Doyle (UCD)
Early Educational Investment as an Economic Recovery Strategy
Alan Barrett (ESRI/TCD)
The Costs of Emigration to the Individual: Evidence from Ireland’s Older Adults
Brendan Walsh (UCD)
Well-being and Economic Conditions in Ireland
This Friday January 27th in Croke Park we will hold a conference on the Irish Economy. This conference is one of a sequence of Dublin Economic Workshop meetings in collaboration with the Universities (in this case UCD Geary Institute and UL). The conference programme is below. Registration will begin at 8.30 on Friday morning, with the first two sessions beginning at 9am. The final panel session is expected to finish at 6pm.
A few housekeeping issues.
RSVPS. In case there are late RSVPs or cancellations, please email clare.delargy@ucd.ie. If you haven’t received confirmation of attendance, please get in touch with Clare so she can add you to list.
Getting there. The conference will take place in the Croke Park Conference centre. The centre is accessible by public transport, with Dart, Bus and Luas lines within a 15-minute walk -please see here for further details.
There is also complimentary car parking for conference attendees on a first come first served basis. The closest car park to the conference centre is the Canal car park, on St Margaret’s Avenue off the North Circular road.
Location. The conference will take place in the Hogan Mezzanine Suite. Access to the suite is through the Jones’ Street entrance to the Hogan Stand, across from the Croke Park Hotel. There will be signs directing you to the suite upon entering the stadium, and there are lifts available.
Catering. There will be coffee breaks at two stages during the day. Please note that lunch will not be provided, but you will be able to avail of catering facilities at the centre.
Social Media. There is complimentary wi-fi access at the conference centre, and for those of you on twitter, we will be using the hashtag #ieconf throughout the day. We’ll aggregate the tweets on the Irish Economy liveblog.
Irish Economy Conference Programme, Croke Park, Dublin – January 27th 2012
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0830-0900 |
Registration and Opening |
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0900-1030 |
Economic Policy and Evaluation |
Property Market |
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Chair: Donal DeButleir (IFPRC)
Tom Healy (CERU) – “Researching Alternative Economic Policies.”
Frank Convery (UCD & IFPRC) – “Doing more good than harm – economists in the public service.”
Frances Ruane (ESRI) – “Evaluation – Contextual and Methodological Challenges.”
Robert Watt (Department PER) – “Improving Policy-Making Capacity.”
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Chair: Stephen Kinsella (UL)
Ronan Lyons (Oxford) – “Residential Site Value Tax in Ireland: Land Values, Implementation & Revenues.”
Michelle Norris (UCD) – “Borrowers’ Pathways through Mortgage Arrears.”
Rob Kitchin (NUIM) – “Prospects for the Irish Property Market.”
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1030-1100 |
Coffee |
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1100-1230 |
Unemployment |
Demography |
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Chair: Minister Joan Burton T.D.
David Bell (Stirling) – “Unemployment in the Great Recession: More Misery for the Young?”
Aedin Doris (NUI Maynooth) – “Employment and Unemployment: What do Sectoral and Demographic Patterns Tell Us?”
Philip O’Connell (ESRI) – “The Impact of Training Programme Type and Duration on the Employment Chances of the Unemployed in Ireland.”
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Chair: Kevin Denny (UCD)
Orla Doyle (UCD) – “Early Educational Investment as an Economic Recovery Strategy.”
Alan Barrett/Irene Mosca (ESRI) – “The Costs of Emigration to the Individual: Evidence from Ireland’s Older Adults.”
Brendan Walsh (UCD) –“Well Being and Economic Conditions in Ireland.”
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1230-1330 |
Lunch
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1330-1500 |
Banking and Euro |
Economic Recovery – Can Competition, Regulation and Privatisation Help? |
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Chair: Constantin Gurdgiev (TCD)
Brian Lucey (TCD) – “Banking in Ireland – Back to the Future.”
Frank Barry (TCD) – “Rectifying Design Flaws in the Euro Project”
Karl Whelan (UCD) – “ The IBRC, ELA, Promissory Notes and All That …“
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Chair: Cathal Guiomard (CAR)
Richard Tol (Sussex) – “Energy Regulation in Ireland – Some Current Weaknesses and Lessons for Recovery.”
John Fingleton (UK Office of Fair Trading) – “Economic Growth – How Can Competition Policy Help?”
Doug Andrew (former London Airport regulator) – “Governance, Ownership and Reform.”
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1500-1530 |
Coffee |
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1530-1700 |
Fiscal Policy |
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Chair: Dan O’Brien (Irish Times)
Philip Lane (TCD) – “Ireland and The Fiscal Compact.”
John McHale (NUIG) – “Strengthening Ireland’s Fiscal Institutions.”
Seamus Coffey (UCC) – “Current and Capital Expenditure: Getting the Balance Right.”
Colm McCarthy (UCD) – “Public Capital Investment and Fiscal Stabilization.”
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1700-1800 |
Panel Session on Irish Economy
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Just an update on the planned conference on the economy, part of a sequence of Dublin Economic Workshop meetings in collaboration with the Universities (in this case UCD Geary Institute and UL).
Firstly – venue. We had planned a city hotel but (a) demand, and (b) lack of appropriate supply, has caused us problems. So we are pleased to have booked the Conference Centre at Croke Park for the event. Details on the venue are here – parking (lots), transport (lots) and wifi too for your iPads.
Secondly – RSVPs. Thanks for those that replied to emma.barron@ucd.ie to give your details. If you have, you are DEFINITELY on the list (just the volume of response means that Emma has not managed to reply to all, plus she was perhaps going to have to cull the list due to capacity issues (she has a black belt – I kid you not!)). Due to her efforts at getting the venue we are fine and in fact would like to encourage more of you to come along – again RSVP to Emma. One favour – if you do RSVP, come along. While this is free to all to attend, it is not free for the organizers so we may be able to adjust the rooms booked etc. Also, while we will DEFINITELY NOT be providing lunch but there will be some catering on the day (coffee etc) so it would be great to have pretty clear figures for all of that stuff.
Thirdly – webcasting etc. We will record and upload after the event – youtube and through the Geary Institute iTunes ‘channel’. We hope to webcast live but not certain at this point. We will set a hashtag on twitter and will use the Institute twitter account on the day (@ucdgearyinst) to encourage interaction from those who can’t make it, from those outside the country etc.
Finally – latest draft of the programme is below. We will update titles etc as we go along.
Thanks again for the patience and the support – RSVP please to emma.barron@ucd.ie, and see you there!
DEW Conference on Irish Economic Policy
Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, January 27th 2012
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0830-0900 |
Registration and Opening |
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0900-1030 |
Economic Policy and Evaluation |
Property Market |
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Chair: Donal DeButleir (IFPRC)
Robert Watt (Department PER)
Tom Healy (CERU)
Frances Ruane (ESRI)
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Chair: Stephen Kinsella (UL)
Ronan Lyons (Oxford) – “Residential Site Value Tax in Ireland: Land Values, Implementation & Revenues.”
Michelle Norris (UCD)
Rob Kitchin (NUIM) – “Prospects for the Irish Property Market.”
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1030-1100 |
Coffee |
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1100-1230 |
Unemployment |
Demography |
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Chair: Minister Joan Burton T.D.
David Bell (Stirling)
Aedin Doris (Maynooth)
Philip O’Connell (ESRI) – “The Impact of Training Programme Type and Duration on the Employment Chances of the Unemployed in Ireland.” |
Chair: Kevin Denny (UCD)
Orla Doyle (UCD) – “Early Educational Investment as an Economic Recovery Strategy.”
Alan Barrett/Irene Mosca (ESRI) – “The Costs of Emigration to the Individual: Evidence from Ireland’s Older Adults.”
Brendan Walsh (UCD) –“Well Being and Economic Conditions in Ireland.”
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1230-1330 |
Lunch |
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1330-1500 |
Banking and Euro |
Economic Recovery – Can Competition, Regulation and Privatisation Help? |
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Chair: Constantin Gurdgiev (TCD)
Brian Lucey (TCD) – “Banking in Ireland – Back to the Future.”
Frank Barry (TCD) – “Rectifying Design Flaws in the Euro Project”
Karl Whelan (UCD) – “Scenarios for the Euro Crisis.”
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Chair: Cathal Guiomard (CAR)
Richard Tol (Sussex) – “Energy Regulation in Ireland – Some Current Weaknesses and Lessons for Recovery.”
John Fingleton (UK Office of Fair Trading) – “Economic Growth – How Can Competition Policy Help?”
Doug Andrew (former London Airport regulator) – “Governance, Ownership and Reform.”
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1500-1530 |
Coffee |
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1530-1700 |
Fiscal Policy |
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Chair: Dan O’Brien (Irish Times)
Philip Lane (TCD) – “The Fiscal Responsibility Bill.”
John McHale (NUIG) – “Strengthening Ireland’s Fiscal Institutions.”
Seamus Coffey (UCC) – “Current and Capital Expenditure: Getting the Balance Right.”
Colm McCarthy (UCD) – “Public Capital Investment and Fiscal Stabilization.”
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1700-1800 |
Panel Session on Irish Economy
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