Behavioural Economics and Irish Public Policy

I have posted a few times (here and here) before on developments in the micro-side of behavioural economics. I think that a lot of policy developments will come out of this area in the next ten years and I have been trying to keep as informed as possible, and have been giving lectures on this in both UCD (to economics students) and TCD (to psychology students). It should go without saying that this area is too broad to give anything approaching a comprehensive summary and my goal here is to point to some areas that might be of interest.

Stiglitz and Cragg on Ireland

Stiglitz and Cragg advocate an alternative approach in this Irish Times article.

Department of Finance: Briefing Notes for the Incoming Minister

There are three files:

WEO/GFSR: Analytical Chapters

The analytical chapters from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook and Global Financial Stability Report have been released.

WEO chapters are here.

GFSR chapters are here.

Honohan: Irish debt repayments should be linked to growth

Patrick Honohan writes on this topic at the FT site: the article is here.