The Irish Economy

The largest annual economics conference takes place this weekend in San Diego – programme (with links to many papers) is here.

NYT article here.

This paper by Warnock and Warnock studies why the availability of mortgage finance differs so much across countries.

This paper by Cavallo, Neiman and Rigobon is a good example of empirical research in economics exploiting the greater data availability made possible by online price data. See also the Billion Prices Project here.

(The paper also shows the impact of a single currency on pricing behaviour.)

NYT article here.