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With greater transparency in prices, where now for house prices ? Have your say!
So now that we have some more transparency in the housing price area, with the publication of the property price database, where do people see the average house price going? Will greater transparency...
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What have the Romans, sorry Researchers, ever done for us?
Another day another paean to applied science… well, a thinly disguised call for more money to go to engineering. Coz, they make stuff y’know, not like basic researchers or heaven help us AHSS (arts,...
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Do you want the Civil Service to run Universities?
This is an significantly extended version of an OpEd published by myself and Charles Larkin (whose name appears missing) in the Irish Times. The Universities (Amendment) Bill 2012 is a shutting of the...
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Plan B needed, times three, for the dangers ahead
This is an extended and linked version of an Irish Examiner oped published 24 November 2012 Irish governments over the years , and especially in the last few, have not exactly shown themselves to be...
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What sectors have contracted most in the crash?
The CSO produced a very good set of tables on value added by sector 2002-9 The data tables contained in this release can be downloaded in excel from this link. Summary : in terms of output the economy...
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Entrepreneurship research in ireland
So with all the government fuss about the innovation island and the innovation economy, with all the (lip service?) paid to empowering entrepeneursip and with the push to make Irish universities into...
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Will Irish Banks need further recapitalisation? If so, who will pay?
This is a version of my column in The Irish Examiner on 6 April 2013 . It was written before the talk at the Cantillon School at which the Central Bank revealed that upwards of 25b of SME loans were...
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Strategic Mortgage Default: What does the research tell us?
What do we know about strategic (could meet obligations but choose not to ) defaulters in relation to mortgages? As I argued earlier, in the Irish case very little is known. There is a little more...
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A New Journal – Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
A New Journal Journals, for good or ill, represent the preeminent mode of scholarly communication. Publications count, in tenure, research evaluations and as a metric of research activity. Despite...
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Why do we hate teachers?
We seem to hate teachers, at least if one goes by some of the comments one sees. Teachers are pretty regularly called thugs, bullies, parasites, derided as lazy, seen as grossly self interested,...
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