Update on Greece

FT Big Read here.

Bulow and Rogoff here.

Peter Doyle here.

Roy Geary: Father of Statistics in Ireland

This radio programme looks back at the remarkable career of Roy Geary, featuring interviews with Brendan Whelan and Dermot McAleese: here.

Thomas Kirchner on Europe and the Euro

Eurointelligence alerts us to this article by Thomas Kirchner, and speculates that we may hear more along these lines in the months to come.

A New Start for the Eurozone: Dealing with Debt

The CEPR has published a new report on the eurozone (I am one of the co-authors).

Outline: This report, the first in the Monitoring the Eurozone series, addresses the measures Eurozone countries need to take to guard against returning financial instability that could threaten a sustainable recovery. The authors consider stock operations, lending structures and regulatory changes in protecting sovereign debt on a national and Europe-wide level.

 

Report is here.

VOX summary is here.

New Working Paper on the Restructuring and Recovery of the Irish Financial Sector

Tom Flavin, Brian O’Kelly and myself have a new working paper on the restructuring and recovery of the Irish financial sector, covering the period late 2008-2014. Helpful comments (cautiously) welcomed.