Department of Economics Research Symposium Summer 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Room G_05, Brookfield Health Sciences Building, UCC
9.00 – 11.00 Chair: Dr Niall O’Sullivan, Chair – Department of Economics Research Committee
9.00 – 9.10 Opening Remarks and Welcome
- Aileen Murphy, Andrew Briggs (University of Glasgow) and Elizabeth Fenwick (University of Glasgow) “Cost Effectiveness of Transcatheter Heart Valve Implantation (TAVI) in Scotland”
- Edel Walsh “An Analysis of the Relationship between Subjective Well-Being and Employment Status in Ireland”.
- Jane Bourke and Stephen Roper (Warwick Business School) “Diffusion of New Prescription Drugs in Irish General Practices”
- Brian Turner and Edward Shinnick “Introducing Lifetime Community Rating in the Irish Private Health Insurance Market: What Can We Learn from the Australian Experience?”
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 1.00 Chair: Mr Pat O’Callaghan, Department of Economics Advisory Board
- Justin Doran, Eoin O’Leary and Stephen Roper (Warwick Business School) “Knowledge Sourcing, Transformation and Exploitation: Evidence from the UK CIS 2002-2004”
- Eleanor Doyle, Fergal O’Connor and Adrian Kuah (University of Bradford) “Innovation Capacities in Advanced Economies: Relative Performance of Small Open Economies”
- Meadhbh Sherman “An examination of the factors influencing mutual fund performance”
3.00 – 5.00 Chair: Prof David O Mahony, Emeritus Professor of Economics, UCC
- Robert Butler “More Time Please: Biases in Premier League Additional Time”
- John Considine, Ruth Butler, Jane Power and Sharon Walsh “The Spectator Demand for Senior Inter-County Football and Hurling 2000-2009”
- John Eakins “An Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Irish Residential Energy Expenditures”
- Ella Kavanagh and Don Walshe “Was it a Minsky moment? An evaluation of Minsky’s contribution to our understanding of the 2007-2009 financial crisis.”
ALL WELCOME