Follow the link below to the slides I used in a presentation last week to the Cork Society of Chartered Accountants Ireland . It was their Annual Practice Day Conference for 2010. Practice Day Presentation 2010
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HESG Summer 2010 Conference in Cork
The Health Economists´ Study Group is a UK organisation for people working in Health Economics. However, the group’s summer conference is being hosted here in University College Cork this summer by the Health Economics Group in the Department of Economics. This will be the first time the conference has been held in Ireland. The website for the conference [...]
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Tax Revenue for 2010 will fall below €30 billion
As of today I predict that Exchequer tax revenues for 2010 will be less than €30 billion for the first time since 2002 (€29.3 billion). This was fine to fund 2002 expenditure but not for the 2010 expenditure which is nearly twice as big. The Department of Finance still believe the figure will be above €31 [...]
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Getting smarter?
In last week’s Budget Brian Linehan formally introduced the 50c per medical prescription for medical card holders that had been flagged over the previous few weeks. It seems we are taking at least one leaf out of the Singapore book. Well a bit of a leaf anyway. Singapore combines government subsidies with patient co-payment for [...]
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Gender wage discrimination starts early
The BBC report the results of the 2009 Halifax Pocket Money Survey. Halifax have been carrying out the survey since 1987 and have found that over that time pocket money has increased by more than four times the rate of inflation. Halifax are most interested in the savings behaviour shown but there are some other [...]
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Who’s smart?
New Geography has just released a survey of the world’s smartest cities and lists “the ‘smartest’ cities not only by looking at infrastructure and livability, but also economic fundamentals”. Singapore comes out on top with Amsterdam the only European entry, though the list is a little Americentric with seven cities (four US, one Mexico, one Brazil and [...]
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Ian Plimer and John Gibbons on RTE Radio
Professor Ian Plimer of the University of Adelaide will be taking part in a debate on climate change organised by the Economics Society in UCC on Thursday 3rd December at 7.30pm in Boole 4. On the day before Prof. Plimer was on The Pat Kenny Show on RTE Radio 1 debating with John Gibbons of [...]
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Serious floods lead to broken windows
In an article in yesterday’s Irish Times, the ESRI’s Prof Richard Tol suggests that the clean-up operation may boost the economy. A short extract gives the main details. Prof Richard Tol of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has said that while the flooding has caused widespread damage, there may be an unexpected fillip [...]
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Who’d be an econometrician?
Not any of the so-called scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich that’s for sure. A story that has had a surprisingly low profile in the mainstream media has grabbed the attention of the online world. In an incident that has been dubbed Climategate a hacker managed to [...]
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People respond to incentives – the sports cheat edition
Alan Good of The Irish Examiner uses basic concept of incentives to analyse the infamous hand ball goal in the recent Ireland-France play-off in this post on The Examiner‘s sports blog. Economics does a good job of explaining this, however. Artisans of the dismal science are, by their own admission, obsessed with incentives, and they are at [...]
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