Below are the presentation slides and the audio of the panel I chaired at the Irish economy conference on January 27th. Ronan’s presentation received a fair bit of coverage, understandably, but all the presentations were well received. The full programme is here, and video of the talks will be up later.
Residential Site Value Tax: Valuation, Implementation & Fiscal Outcomes
Michelle Norris (UCD)
Pathways Through Mortgage Arrears
Rob Kitchin (NUIM)
Prospects for the Irish Property Market
Below are links to materials from the competition, regulation and privatisation session allowing, as with similar threads, for views on the topics and contents of the session to be gathered together.
A very central theme of the presentations and discussions was how reform might stimulate growth and thus reduce the costs of austerity.
Part of Doug Andrew’s presentation on governance is related to the privatisation thread already on the blog here. And, as regulated firms engage in investment, Colm McCarthy’s presentation on investment here could be read alongside some of the presentations from this session.
Although there are no slides from John Fingleton’s talk on competition, there is is a link to a closely-related paper, and you may, in any case, listen to the podcast of his (impassioned) speech, which is to be found from about 24.00 minutes into the recording.
Chair: Cathal Guiomard (CAR)
Richard Tol (Sussex)
Energy Policy and Economic Growth
John Fingleton (UK OFT)
Economic Growth – How Can Competition Policy Help?
No slides but related paper here
Doug Andrew (consultant, ex-airport regulator)
Ownership, Governance and Reform
Below are links to the unemployment session materials so that this thread can be used for thoughts people have on the contents of the session.
Chair: Minister Joan Burton T.D.
David Bell (Stirling)
Unemployment in the Great Recession: More Misery for the Young?
Aedin Doris (NUIM)
Employment and Unemployment: What do Sectoral and Demographic Patterns Tell Us?
Philip O’Connell (ESRI)
The Impact of Training Programme Type and Duration on the Employment Chances of the Unemployed in Ireland
Slides and audio podcasts from Friday’s session are available at the following link. Let us know if there are any problems. Some technical glitches with the policy evaluation session but we will put material up later. We are working on the videos and they will be available at some stage but the audio and slides should be fine in terms of getting complete content. As is the norm, we dont include the Q+A components of the sessions. The hashtag is still ieconf for people commenting on twitter. It would be good if different posters started threads on specific sessions and a couple of people have already committed to do this later. Perhaps use this thread if general comments about the conference or suggestions for future events.