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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

 

Budget Perspectives 2010

Date: 13/10/2009.
Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.

The Economic and Social Research Institute and the Foundation for Fiscal Studies (FFS) are holding the twelfth "Budget Perspectives" Conference on Tuesday, 13th October 2009. The Conference will examine some of the key economic and public finance issues that need to be considered in framing policy for the forthcoming Budget and the medium term.

Papers at the conference present research findings and draw out the implications for public policy, particularly budgetary policy. The attendance typically includes representatives of the social partners, high-level officials from government departments and others involved in debate on policy issues.

SESSION 1: MACROECONOMICS

Chair: Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI

09.15 Macroeconomic Background to Budget 2010 - Alan Barrett, Ide Kearney and Jean Goggin (ESRI)

09.45 Restructuring Taxes - Tim Callan, Claire Keane, John R. Walsh (ESRI)

10.25 Round Table on Commission on Taxation - Dr Donal de Buitleir (FFS), Patrick Honohan (TCD), Richard Tol (ESRI)

10.50 Tea/Coffee

SESSION 2: MICROECONOMICS

Chair: Dr Donal de Buitléir (FFS)

11.20 The Recession, Budgets, Competition, and Regulation: Should the State Supply
Bespoke Protection? - Paul Gorecki (ESRI)

12.00 The Future of the EU budget: Irish Perspectives - Alan Matthews (IIIS, TCD)

SESSION 3: PANEL DISCUSSION

Chair: Dr Donal de Buitléir (FFS)

Information and booking form

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Call for Papers: Health Economics Association of Ireland (HEAI)

Date: 22/10/2009
Time: 12.30 to 5.00 pm
Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2

The Health Economics Association of Ireland (HEAI) holds regular meetings where work in progress by participants is presented and discussed. The papers presented typically focus on issues of relevance to Irish health policy makers, applying health economic techniques to Irish and European data.

The next HEAI meeting will be held at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) on Thursday 22nd October 2009, 12.30 – 5pm.

We are currently seeking submissions for the next HEAI meeting. If you would like to be considered, please submit a short abstract to either Anne Nolan (anne.nolan@esri.ie) or Samantha Smith (samantha.smith@esri.ie) by Friday 4th September 2009.

A final schedule for the afternoon will be available in mid-September.

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ESRI Seminars

ESRI Seminars usually take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the ESRI 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.

3 September 2009 - Research Seminar : Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement


8 October 2009 - Research Seminar - The Public-Private Sector Pay Gap in Ireland: What Lies Beneath?


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PUBLICATIONS

 

"A Hirsch Measure for the Quality of Research Supervision, and an Illustration with Trade Economists"

Ruane, Frances / Tol, Richard S J. Scientometrics, Vol 80 No 3, 2009, pp.615–626, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-2092-x, Published online 16 April 2009

"The Kerry/Breeo Merger: Two Views of Countervailing Buyer Power – the Competition Authorityand the High Court"

Gorecki, Paul K.European Competition Journal, Vol 5 No 2, August 2009, pp.585-612

"AD-DICE: an Implementation of Adaptation in the DICE Model"

de Bruin, Kelly C (Wageningen University) / Dellink, Rob B (VU University Amsterdam) / Tol, Richard S J. Climatic Change, Vol 95 No 1-2, July 2009, pp.63-81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-008-9535-5, Published online 30 January 2009

"The Irish 'Health Basket': a Basket Case?"

Smith, Samantha. The European Journal of Health Economics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-009-0171-4, Published online 5 August 2009

Being 9 Years Old (Growing Up in Ireland Study - Key Findings No. 1)

ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series 011

The Families of 9-Year-Olds (Growing Up in Ireland Study - Key Findings No. 2)

ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series 012

The Education of 9-Year-Olds (Growing Up in Ireland Study - Key Findings No. 3)

ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series 013

The Health of 9-Year-Olds (Growing Up in Ireland Study - Key Findings No. 4)

ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series 014

Consumer Sentiment Index

Latest Consumer Sentiment Index.

House Price Index
Latest permanent tsb/ESRI House Price Index.

"Price Inflation and Income Distribution"

Jennings, Anne / Lyons, Seán / Tol, Richard S J . ESRI Working Paper 308

"Recent Trends in the Caesarean Section Rate in Ireland 1999-2006"

Brick, Aoife / Layte, Richard. ESRI Working Paper 309

"Car Ownership and Mode of Transport to Work in Ireland"

Commins, Nicola / Nolan, Anne, ESRI Working Paper 310

"Exploring International Differences in Rates of Return to Education: Evidence from EU SILC"

Davia, Maria A. (Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha) / McGuinness, Seamus / O'Connell, Philip J, ESRI Working Paper 311

 

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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).

National Profiling of the Unemployed in Ireland
O'Connell, P. J, McGuinness, S., Kelly, E., Walsh J. ESRI Research Series 10, 4 September 2009 

The Gender Wage Gap in Ireland: Evidence from the National Employment Survey 2003
McGuinness, S., Kelly, E., Callan, T., O'Connell, P. J., The Equality Authority
11 September 2009.

Study on the Costs of Participating in Higher Education
McCoy, S., Calvert, E., Smyth, E., Darmody, M., the ESRI and the Higher Education Authority, 2009.

EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market
Barrett, A., in Kahanec, M. & Zimmermann, K. F. (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, pp.145-161, September 2009.

Policies on Unaccompanied Minors in Ireland
Joyce, C, Quinn, E. Report Prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security and published by the ESRI, 2 September 2009  

Annual Policy Report on Migration and Asylum 2008: Ireland
Joyce, C. ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series 015, 9 September 2009  

Activity in Acute Public Hospitals in Ireland, 2007 Annual Report, September 2009

Hidden Disadvantage? A Study of the low participation in Higher Education by the Non Manual Group by Selina McCoy and Delma Byrne with Philip O’Connell, Elish Kelly and Cliona Doherty. ESRI and HEA, October 2009.

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NEW PROJECTS

Critical Issues in considering the social cost of carbon in economic analysis of project.
This project, for the Asian Development Bank, will look at the literature on modelling and estimation of the social cost of carbon, review the practices of governments around the world, multilateral development banks, and other aid agencies in considering the social cost of carbon and benefits of emissions reduction in the appraisal of development projects, and recommend how the social cost of carbon could be considered in the Asian Development Banks project economic analysis. The project will be undertaken by Richard Tol.

IDEAS Programme Vietnam - Provision of Economic Analysis and Forecastig Services
This project, for Irish Aid, aims to develop a practical training course in applied macro-economic forecasting to be implemented in Vietnam, and will report on outcomes to Irish Aid. The project team includes John FitzGerald, Ide Kearney, Adele Bergin and Thomas Conefrey.

Study on Active Inclusion of Migrants
Thus study has been commissioned by the European Commission, DG Inclusion, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities and is being conducted by IZA (Bonn, Germany) and the ESRI. The objective to provide the European Commission with: (a) an expert assessment of the main trends experienced by migrants with regard to social assistance and access to social services; (b) an in-depth analysis of the main determinants of these trends; (c) a rigorous account of the mutual interaction of migration policies and social assistance policies. The ESRI project team is Alan Barrett and Bertrand Maitre.

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