Department of Economics News

Professor Carol Newman presented the paper "Worker Mobility and Productivity Spillovers: An Emerging Market Perspective", co-authored by John Rand, Ayanda Hlatshwayo and Friedrich Kresuser at the Nordic Conference in Development Economics on 17^th June 2024.

Professor Davide Romelli's data on Central Bank Independence has been cited by the US Council of Economic Advisers's blog on May 22 2024. The blog defines CBI and why it is important to carry out monetary policy without political interference.

In "Housing prices, costs, and policy: The housing supply equation in Ireland since 1970", Lyons and Günnewig-Mönert examine how responsive new housing supply in Ireland has been to changes in housing prices and costs. To do this, they use data for Ireland and for Dublin from the 1970s to the 2020s, as well as county-level data from the 1990s.

The National Economic Dialogue 2024 took place on May 27^th at Dublin Castle. This year's focus was on building economic resilience and improving living standards in a more shock-prone world.

The School of Social Sciences and Philosophy honoured 4 outstanding teaching assistants at the Dermot McAleese Teaching Awards on May 28th. In the Department of Economics, Doireann O'Brien was awarded the honour for her dedication to her teaching role.

The Society of Labour Economists (SOLE) annual conference took place on the 3-4 May 2024 in Portland, Oregon. Professor Martyna Marczak presented her research paper "Technical Change, Task Allocation, and Labour Unions".

The Young Economist of the Year held its awards event in the University of Limerick on the 8^th May 2024. Professor Francis O'Toole presented the TCD Economics prize to Syeda Fatima Shah and Mastora Akhon from Coláiste Chiaráin, Croom, Co. Limerick.

The graduation of the first cohort from the joint Trinity-ESRI MSc in Economic Policy took place on Wednesday, April 17^th, 2024. Congratulations to all the students on their fantastic achievement. The next intake for the programme will be in September 2025.

Colm O'Reardon, Secretary General of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, spoke on the transformative journey of Ireland's higher education landscape and the challenges facing the third level sector.

On April 11^th, Professor Ann Carlos was presented the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Award by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History, recognising her substantial contribution to the discipline of economic history.

The Department is inviting applications for the positions of Assistant Professor and Teaching Fellow. Both positions have a start date of August 1^st and a closing date of May 10^th.

Learn more about our new Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Economics and Big Data by attending an Open Day Webinar on Monday, April 15^th from 16:00 to 17:30. This course aims to train students with even a minimal quantitative research methods background in state-of-the-art applied economics methods.

The Student Economic Review is hosting the launch of the printed journal on Tuesday, March 26^th at 7pm in the Graduates Memorial Building on campus to celebrate the publication of this year's wonderful essays. Philip Lane (ECB Chief Economist), Felicia Odamtten (founder of the Black Economists' Network in the UK), and Margaret Doyle (Partner and Chief Insights Officer of Deloitte UK) will speak.

Led by Prof. Eleanor Denny, Economics, and Prof. Brian Caulfield, Civil Engineering, the new project, called RATE, will conduct a nation-wide survey of car purchasing preferences to determine how various factors such as fuel type, vehicle size, safety and cost impact upon choice.

Long–standing Professor of Economics John O'Hagan is presented with a portrait by Provost Linda Doyle after the recent Trinity-Harvard Student Economic Review Debate at the Hist. Professor O'Hagan started the SER 37 years ago and oversaw it for 30 years.

The Student Economic Review organises intercollegiate debates with Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge. This year‘s debates will take place on the evenings of Thursday 8^th of February (‘This house would abolish all borders‘, vs Oxford) and Wednesday 21^st February (‘This house believes capitalism is incompatible with solving the climate crisis‘, vs Harvard) in the Graduates Memorial Building (GMB).

Mail sspcpd@tcd.ie to RSVP for our CPD Showcase Breakfast Event and learn about our short courses on offer this Spring. There will be short presentations from our 6 CPD course facilitators followed by a Q&A.

We are hiring a Research Fellow in Behavioural Economics for a collaboration between the Departments of Economics (with Prof Eleanor Denny) and Civil Engineering (with Prof Brian Caulfield). The successful candidate will work on the RATE project - the largest national stated preference study ever conducted in Ireland on car purchasing trends. Closing date is January26^th!

Congratulations to Economics Professor Davide Romelli, who has been nominated as a member of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of the Bank of England and HM Treasury. The group will bring together experts from a range of disciplines to work on the digital pound.

Keeping State pension age at 66 is unfair to younger generations, writes Economics Professor Barra Roantree, in a piece published in The Irish Times on Wednesday, 13th December.

The School of Social Sciences and Philosophy inaugural Student Prize Ceremony was held at the Synge Theatre on 4th December. The ceremony provided an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate exceptional student achievements within the school. Read more about the event and prize winners here

We are hiring Assistant Professors in Economics to start 1 August 2024! Closing date 8 January 2024!

TCD Professor, Paul Scanlon, presents a model where desired markups are increased with the volatility of the general price level.

Kate Orkin, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Oxford, will deliver a lecture on Mental Health and Development at the 2023 TIME Annual Lecture on December 6th at 6.30pm in the Long Room Hub. Click to RSVP.

The Trinity Impact Evaluation Research Centre (TIME), in collaboration with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and funded by (Irish Aid), held a conference on Development Economics at TCD on the 13th and 14th of October 2023.

Professor Barra Roantree was responding to the suggestion that the budget should involve a lower rate of tax or increased exemptions for landlords: What these things share is that they would be very expensive, very unfair and fundamentally just completely ineffective in dealing with the problem

Professor Humphreys serves as the director of the Institutions and Political Inequality group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He joins the School as an Honorary Professor of Social Sciences in the Departments of Economics and Political Science.

A new ESRI report authored by Trinity economist Dr Barra Roantree has shown that child poverty could be reduced by a quarter by introducing a means-tested second-tier of child benefit.