FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2.
Date: Tuesday 23/10/2007.
Time: 8.45 am to 1 pm.
The 10th 'Budget Perspectives' conference, organised by the ESRI and the Foundation for Fiscal Studies, will take place on Tuesday 23 October 2007. The Programme is as follows:
Programme
08.45 Registration and coffee
09.15 Opening Address
Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI
SESSION 1: MACROECONOMIC FACTORS
Chair: Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI
09.20 Macroeconomic Background for Budget 2008
Alan Barrett, Ide Kearney and Martin O’Brien (ESRI)
09.50 Fiscal Policy for a Slowing Economy
Philip Lane (IIIS, TCD)
10.30 Tea/Coffee
SESSION 2: ISSUES IN TAXATION POLICY
Chair: Dr Donal de Buitleir, (FFS)
11.00 Pension Priorities: Getting the Balance Right
Tim Callan (ESRI),
Brian Nolan (UCD) and John Walsh (ESRI)
11.40 Corporate Taxation: EU-level Analysis
Albert van der Horst (Central Planning Bureau, Netherlands)
Response: An Irish Perspective
Frank Barry (TCD)
SESSION 3: PANEL DISCUSSION
Chair: Dr Donal de Buitleir (FFS)
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Close
The Conference fee is Euro 80 for ESRI and FFS members, Euro 100 for non-members. The Conference may be booked in the following ways:
- Online - by visiting The ESRI website, completing the online booking form and paying online by credit/debit card or sending cheque.
- By telephoning The ESRI on 01 8632000 with credit/debit card details.
- By completing the booking form (in the brochure, available online) and returning it to The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, with appropriate remittance.
Cheques should be made payable to: The Economic and Social Research Institute. Please do not send cash by post.
For further information and to download the brochure, please visit the esri web site. Alternatively please phone The ESRI on 01 8632000, or send an email to Conference@esri.ie.
ESRI Seminars usually take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the ESRI's new premises at Sir John Rogerson's Quay, unless stated otherwise. No booking is required. Please note that Seminar dates may change. Please check the web site regularly, at www.esri.ie
ESRI Seminar "Local Environmental Quality & Life-Satisfaction", by Dr. Katrin Rehdanz of Hanburg University.
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 04/10/2007
Time: 4 pm.
ESRI/IIIS Research Seminar "International services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation", by Dr. Holger Gorg, GEP, University of Nottingham and CEPR
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, D2.
Date: Tuesday 23rd October 2007
Time: 4 p.m.
ESRI Seminar on Transport and the Environment
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, D2
Date: 25/10/2007
Time: 15:00-17:00
"Trends in freight transport and emissions", by Laura Malaguzzi Valeri (ESRI).
"The impact of bypasses on house prices", by Sean Lyons and Edgar Morgenroth (ESRI).
"Regulation of airline emissions", by Richard Tol (ESRI)
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Quarterly Economic Commentary, Autumn 2007
Barrett, A., Kearney, I., O'Brien, M. Dublin: ESRI, September 2007.
The Quarterly Economic Commentary is concerned with the analysis of current economic trends and the provision of macroeconomic forecasts for the current and following year.
There are three special articles in this QEC:-
"An Environmental Input-Output Model for Ireland"
O'Doherty, J., Tol, R.S.J., The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 38 No 2, September 2007.
"Carbon Dioxide Emission Scenarios for the USA"
Tol, R.S.J., Energy Policy, Vol. 35. Issue 11, November 2007, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.01.039, Published online 16/07/2007, September 2007.
"Changes at Energy Economics"
Tol, R.S.J., Weyant, J.P., Energy Economics, Vol. 29 Issue 6, November 2007, DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2007.07.010, Published online 24/07/2007, September 2007.
"Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers in Seven European Countries"
Callan, T. Smeeding, T. Tsakloglou, P., ESRI Working Paper No. 207, Dublin:ESRI, September 2007.
"Education and Skill Mismatches in the Labour Market: Editors Introduction"
Mavromaras, K, McGuinness, S., Australian Economic Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, September 2007.
"Economic Assessment of the Euro Area: Forecasts and Policy Analysis, Autumn 2007"
EUROFRAME - European Forecasting Network, September 2007.
"Equity in the Utilisation of Hospital Inpatient Services in Ireland? An Improved Approach to the Measurement of Health Need"
Layte, R., The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 38 No. 2, Summer/Autumn 2007.
"Holiday Destinations: Understanding the Travel Choices of Irish Tourists"
Lyons, S., Mayor, K., Tol, R.S.J., ESRI Working Paper No. 210, September 2007.
"Irish Manufacturing Export Dynamics: Evidence of Exporter Heterogeneity in Boom and Slump Periods"
Gleeson, A. M., Ruane, F., Review of World Economics, Vol. 143, No. 2, 2007, DOI: 10.1007/s10290-007-0112-1 (published online 11/07/2007).
"On the Multidimensionality of Poverty and Social Exclusion"
Nolan, B., Whelan, C.T., in S.Jenkins & J. Micklewright (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-examined, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2007.
"Overskilling in the Australian Labour Market"
Mavromaras, K., McGuinness, S., Wooden, M., Australian Economic Review, Vol. 40, No 3, September 2007.
"Strengthening the Social Climate in Schools to Combat Educational Disadvantage"
Darmody, M., in P. Downes and A. L. Gilligan (eds.), Beyond Educational Disadvantage, Dublin: IPA, September 2007
"Tax Structure and Female Labour Market Participation: Evidence from Ireland"
Callan, T., Van Soest, A., Walsh, J., ESRI Working Paper No. 208, Dublin:ESRI, Sept. 2007.
The Effectiveness of Competition Policy and the Price-Cost Margin: Evidence from Panel Data
McCloughan, P., Lyons, S., Batt, W., ESRI Working Paper No. 209, Dublin:ESRI, September 2007.
"Understanding the Implications of Choice of Deprivation Index for Measuring Consistent Poverty in Ireland"
Whelan, C.T., The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2007.
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