Central Banking Boundaries

The UCD Economics Society speech by Patrick Honohan is here.

Dublin Economics Workshop 2014

This year the DEW, kindly sponsored by the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, will be held at the River Lee Hotel in Cork City on Friday and Saturday, the 17th and 18th of October. This year’s programme is here.

All bookings and reservations for the event can be made from here.

This is the 37th DEW annual conference and will begin with a number of parallel sessions on Friday afternoon.  Over the two days there will presentations across a range of topics from 35 people including policymakers, academics, commentators and members of the business community. 

On Friday evening Jerry Dwyer of Clemson University will give a plenary session on ‘quantitative easing’ while the final session on Saturday will be a panel discussion on ‘fiscal policy for the long haul’ and will include a contribution from Robert Watt, Secretary-General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. 

Shifting tax burden and investment is way forward

My thoughts on budgetary policy in the run up to Budget 2015 are here in today’s Irish Times.

Recruitment: Graduate Economists in the Irish Government Economic & Evaluation Service

Details here.

Presentation of Geneva Report: Thursday, October 2 at Noon

I will present the report in a Policy Institute seminar in TCD during 12-1 tomorrow Thursday in the IIIS seminar room (top floor, Arts Block). All welcome – no registration required.