New Report on the Financial Crisis

An expert group has written a report on the Danish experience during the financial crisis. English summary here.

Estimating Structural Unemployment

Following up on the earlier thread on the reform of the output gap estimation method, this VOXEU article by Andres and Domenech is relevant – here.

IFAC Vacancies

Details here.

Some European Refoms

The WSJ reported yesterday on two interesting developments:

  • the adoption of a new approach to measure the output gap, which attributes more of the current downturn to cyclical factors – here
  • the advocacy of pan-European banks as a way to mitigate regional crises – here

(see also its “Insider’s Travel Guide to Dublin here.)

Ethical Reasoning and Economic Thought

Last week President Higgins delivered a lecture as part of the Ethics for All series in DCU.  The text can be read here.