FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Research Seminar: Means Testing Retirement Benefits: Fostering Equity or Discouraging Savings?
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 04/09/2008 at 4 pm.

Policy Seminar: Work Stress and Health: Current Research and Policy Implications
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 11/09/2008 at 4 pm.

Research Seminar: Marital Partner and Mortality: the effects of the Social Positions of both Spouses
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 17/09/2008 at 4 pm.

Policy Seminar: Part-time Work and Health among Older Workers in Ireland
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 18/09/2008 at 4 pm.

Conference "Budget Perspectives 2009"

Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2.
Date: 07/10/2008

PROGRAMME

08.30      Registration and coffee

09.15      Opening Address - Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI

SESSION 1: MACROECONOMICS
Chair:      Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI

09.20      The Global Macroeconomy: Shocks and Policy Challenges
Ray Barrell (NIESR, London)

10.00        Macroeconomic Background for Budget 2009
Alan Barrett, Ide Kearney (ESRI)

10.20      Round table: How big a deficit?
Ray Barrell (NIESR, London)
Joe Durkan (UCD)
Philip Lane (IIIS, TCD)

10.50     Tea/Coffee

SESSION 2: MICROECONOMICS
Chair:      Dr Donal de Buitléir (FFS)

11.10      Mobilising Market-based Instruments for Climate Change in Ireland
Lisa Ryan (Comhar)
Frank Convery (UCD)
Noel Casserly (Comhar)

11.50      Getting out what you put in: an evaluation of investment in Irish sport
Pete Lunn (ESRI)

SESSION 3: PANEL DISCUSSION
Chair:     Dr Donal de Buitléir (FFS)

12.30      Discussion

More details and registration

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

A Short Note on Joint Welfare Maximization Assumption
Osmani, Dritan / Tol, Richard S J

The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Economic Growth and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Ireland
Conefrey, Thomas / Fitz Gerald, John / Malaguzzi Valeri, Laura / Tol, Richard S J

The Stern Review and the Economics of Climate Change: An Editorial Essay
Yohe, Gary W. / Tol, Richard S J

Field of Study and Gender Segregation in European Labour Markets
Smyth, Emer / Steinmetz, Stephanie (University of Mannheim)

Field of Study and Students’ Workload in Higher Education: Ireland and Austria in Comparative Perspective
Darmody, Merike / Smyth, Emer / Unger, Martin (Institute of Advanced Studies, Austria)

Evaluating the Impact of Eligibility for Free Care on the Use of General Practitioner (GP) Services: A Difference-in-Difference Matching Approach
Nolan, Anne

The Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers and Catastrophes
Tol, Richard SJ
 

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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

(Please note that the publication dates of forthcoming publications may change. Please check the ESRI web site at www.esri.ie).

Immigrants at Work: Ethnicity and Nationality in the Irish Labour Market
O’Connell, Philip J. and McGinnity, Fran, ESRI/Equality Authority. September 2008.

Quarterly Economic Commentary, Autumn 2008
Barrett, Alan, Kearney, Ide, Goggin, Jean and O’Brien, Martin, ESRI. September 2008.

Are Ireland’s Immigrants Integrating into its Labour Market? Barrett, Alan and Duffy, David, International Migration Review Vol. 42 No. 3, September 2008.

Macroeconomic Differentials and Adjustment in the Euro Area. Siedschlag, I.
SUERF-The European Money and Finance Forum. September 2008.

Annual Policy Report 2007: Ireland. Report for the European Commission Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security
Joyce, Corona. ESRI Survey & Statistical Report Series. September 2008.

Budget Perspectives 2009
Papers from the ESRI/FFS Budget Perspectives Conference, October 2008.

The Life Cycle Perspective on Social Inclusion in Ireland: An Analysis of EU-SILC, Whelan, C.T. (ESRI), Maitre, B. ESRI Research Series No. 3, October 2008

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ESRI Offices

The Economic and Social Research Institute,
Whitaker Square,
Sir John Rogerson's Quay,
Dublin 2.

Tel: +353 1 8632000
Fax: +353 1 8632100
Email: admin@esri.ie
Website: www.esri.ie

The ESRI is located in Whitaker Square off Sir John Rogerson's Quay. There are pedestrian entrances from Sir John Rogerson's Quay (beside O2), Cardiff Lane (beside Quality Hotel) and Hanover Street East. There is on-street disk parking in the streets around Whitaker Square. The nearest public car park is at Grand Canal Square. Link to map.

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