I have a post at Vox describing a recently published book, co-edited with Jeff Williamson.
730 days to go, and questions for us all. Worth putting up a thread on this today.
The ESRI’s Pete Lunn and David Duffy apply some fairly fancy econometrics in the latest issue of the Economic and Social Review to show what Leinster supporters like myself know simply by looking into our hearts. BOD is the greatest.
Nobody show this to Ryle Nugent.
A colleague has pointed out this Economist piece on gambling to me. Check out the figures on average annual gambling losses per resident adult, and where Ireland comes in the list: am I the only one who thinks these numbers are enormous? Or that we should perhaps be worried about them — especially the very large online component?
(This also gives me an excuse to complain about the FAI’s League of Ireland streaming deal with an online gambling company.)
I have been working for a number of years on interwar trade policy, trying to see if using more fine-grained data will alter the consensus view that 1930s protectionism didn’t matter much for trade flows, in the context of everything else that was going on at the time. It is time-consuming work, but we are beginning to produce some results now, the first of which are previewed here. And I suppose that one upside of the time it has taken us to put the dataset together is that, in the meantime, Brexit intervened, which will hopefully increase interest in quantitative studies of trade policy!