Bailed Out!

The new Fishamble play by Colin Murphy is on during the Festival – details here.

 

BPEA Fall 2015: Papers on Portugal and Greece

Ricardo Reis assesses adjustment in Portugal;  there is also an array of papers on the Greek crisis.

Papers here.

Update:   The discussion slides by Kevin O’Rourke for the Reis paper are available here.

Dublin Economics Workshop Conference – Final Call

The Dublin Economics Workshop will hold its annual economic policy conference at the Hodson Bay Hotel in Athlone on October 16th and 17th next. Some slots are still available and proposals in any area of economic policy are welcome. They should be forwarded as soon as possible to colm.mccarthy@ucd.ie.

Programme and booking details will be circulated shortly.

The Dublin Economics Workshop is kindly sponsored by Dublin Chamber of Commerce.

Fiscal Tightening and Economic Growth

A detailed analysis of cross-country covariation patterns is available in the PIIE report by Paolo Mauro and Jan Zilinsky here.

The Eurozone Crisis: A Consensus View of the Causes and a Few Possible Solutions

There is a new VOXEU ebook with contributions on this topic – here.  (My contribution is on “International financial flows and the Eurozone crisis”.)