Research Conference

ESRI - TCD Conference 28 October 2010: Turning Globalisation to National Advantage: Economic Policy Lessons from Ireland’s Experience

This ESRI-TCD Conference is a joint initiative under the recently agreed New Strategic Partnership between the ESRI and TCD. It discussed preliminary research results and implications for policy from two major ongoing projects being carried out by researchers at ESRI and TCD. These projects are funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and focus on the effects of globalisation on the Irish economy and related policy responses.

Session 1: International Macroeconomics
Chair: Iulia Siedschlag, ESRI and Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin.

14:00-14:30 Euro Membership and Bank Stability: Friends or Foes?
Patrick Honohan, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland. Download Presentation

14:30-15:00 Irish Macroeconomic Policy under EMU
Philip Lane, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin.  Download Presentation

15:00-15:30 Labour Market and Potential Output
John Fitz Gerald, Adele Bergin, Thomas Conefrey, Ide Kearney, ESRI and Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. Download Presentation

Session 2: International Trade and Investment
Chair: Philip Lane, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin.

16:00-16:30 Internationalisation of Firms, Innovation and Productivity
Iulia Siedschlag, Xiaoheng Zhang, ESRI and Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, and Brian Cahill, Forfás and NUI Galway. Download Presentation

16:30-17:00 Irish Equity on the Roller-Coaster of Risk and Exuberance
Peter Dunne and Rebecca Stuart, Central Bank of Ireland.
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17:00-17:30 The Performance of Ireland’s Exportables Sectors over the Recession
Frank Barry, School of Business, Trinity College Dublin and Adele Bergin, ESRI and Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. Download Presentation.