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The Competition Authority is recruiting a new Chairperson and up to three Members – it was advertised today in the national press. The Public Appointments Service is inviting applications, links to the roles are as follows:

Chairperson of the Competition Authority:

Member of the Competition Authority:

The presentations from last Monday’s seminar organised by the Department of Finance and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are available here.

The English summary of the May 2011 annual report from the Swedish Council is here.

Dublin Economics Workshop – Kenmare 2011

Annual Economic Policy Conference

 October 14th to 16th

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 The organisers of Kenmare 2011 are interested in receiving proposals for policy-oriented papers in the following areas (please suggest further topics if you wish):

The Fiscal Challenge in Ireland

The Banking Crisis

The European Response 

What Happened to Competition Policy?

Pensions Reform

 We will also have a special session this year focused on the work of young(er) researchers. We would like to invite researchers under the age of 35 to submit papers on economic policy issues with the best four papers to be presented at the conference this year. The best paper will be awarded a prize of €500 while the other presented papers will be awarded prizes of €250.  The conference fees and accommodation expenses of one author per paper will also be waived.

An initial expression of interest (whether over or under 35!) including title of paper and a short abstract, should be made to Sean Barrett sbarrett@tcd.ie, Robert Watt rwatt@per.gov.ie, Colin Hunt huntjc@tcd.ie, or Colm McCarthy colm.mccarthy@ucd.ie by June 30th. 

The ESCB’s views are in this document.

The Department of Finance held a seminar yesterday on various aspects of fiscal reform in Ireland, as a follow up to the report it issued a while ago.

I spoke on the design of fiscal rules.  My slides are here.