For those interested in fiscal issues and tax modelling/forecasting, two economists in the Department of Finance, Gerard McGuinness and Diarmaid Smyth, have just published a working paper looking at Corporation Tax.
The paper uses both micro- and macro-economic perspectives and focuses on the marked rise in CT receipts and corporate profitability since 2014 is highlighted.
The paper is available from this link.
The women@econ program at UCD School of Economics is an initiative aimed at increasing the number of females studying economics and pursuing it as a career through a series of career and networking events.
The first event is a panel Q&A session with speakers from government, industry, and academia and takes place on Thursday 21 Nov 6-8pm at Newman Theatre R. All welcome, register here.
List of speakers:
Aviation Pricing: Issues and Innovations for Airlines, Airports and ATC.
The European Aviation Conference (EAC) 2019 takes place in Vienna this avyear. Complete details including booking engine on conference website www.eac-conference.com. EAC takes place on Thurs-Fri 6th-7th November.
This year, the EAC is preceded by the first meeting of a new organisation: the Aviation Management and Economics Conference (AMEC) conference, also in Vienna, on Wednesday November 5th. Programme here.
These meetings will be of interest to those with an interest in aviation, whether from an academic or business viewpoint.
Booking your Place
If these questions are relevant to your work, then register for EAC 2019 at the conference website: www.eac-conference.com
Further information on the EAC below the break.
An assessment of the likely economic effects and impact on households of any tax and welfare changes made in Budget 2020 will be presented by Karina Doorley and Barra Roantree on Friday, 11th October at the ESRI. Anyone interested in attending can find further information and registration details here.
The latest issue of the Economic and Social Review is now available here.
This edition contains the following papers:
Examining the volatility of Ireland’s tax base in the paradigm of modern portfolio theory
Keith Fitzgerald and Jacopo Bedogni
Partnership dissolution after childbirth in Ireland: on the importance of pregnancy intentions
Thorsten Schneider
Irish attitudes to Muslim immigrants
Éamonn Fahey, Frances McGinnity and Raffale Grotti
Policy Section Articles:
Europe in transition: the future place of the environment in the European Union
Finbarr Brereton and Eoin O’Neill
Have Irish sovereign bonds decoupled from the Euro Area periphery, and why?
David Cronin, Peter Dunne and Kieran McQuinn
Evaluating Post-Leaving Certificate provision in Ireland
Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly, Selina McCoy, Emer Smyth and Adele Whelan
Estimating, and interpreting, retirement income replacement rates
Sanna Nivakoski and Alan Barrett