Lovenomics

The NYT profiles Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers here.

February 23rd: CSO Balance of Payments Seminar

Details here.

Secretary General of Department of Health

Interested? Details here.

Ireland can show Greece a way out of the crisis

Ricardo Hausmann focuses on differences in export capacity in this FT op-ed.

Re-Designing the Eurozone

I argue that the fiscal ‘compact’ will not turn the currency union into a full monetary union in this paper from a conference before Christmas;

http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/WP12_02.pdf

and in another that Croatia, which voted to join the EU a couple of weeks back, should think carefully about joining the currency union as currently constituted:

http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/WP12_03.pdf

It would be nice to get solemn acknowledgement all round that fiscal rectitude is a good thing. It would be even nicer if some political attention could focus on what kind of EMU 2.0 might actually work in the long term.