News Archive: Academic Year 2020 - 2021

Professor Andrea Guariso joined colleagues from institutions across the globe to examine vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in 10 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, and South America, in a new study published in Nature Medicine. The study was partially funded through the TCD COVID19 Response Funding.

Research by Professor Martina Kirchberger and Keelan Beirne (Princeton University) shows that market power in the construction sector raises prices and undermines long-term growth in poor countries.

Professor Bénétrix will act as Senior Editor for the new and fully open access journal by Oxford University Press, Oxford Open Economics. He will be looking after publications in the areas of Macroeconomics and International Macroeconomics/Finance.

Nicola Fontana will join the Department of Economics in August 2021. His research lies primarily in Labor Economics & Political Economy.

Finance Minister Pascal Donohue Launched the Department’s New MSc in Economic Policy. The first-ever MSc in economic policy specifically for people working in the public sector which combines the Department’s expertise and the policy-focused research at the ESRI. Commencing in January 2022, now accepting applications.

Professor Carol Newman and Professor Gaia Narciso with Patrick Lubega, Frances Nakakawa, Archileo N. Kaaya, Cissy Kityo and Gaston A. Tumuhimbise, have published the paper "Body and mind: Experimental evidence from women living with HIV" in the Journal of Development Economics.

The Department of Economics invites applications for a Teaching Fellow in Economics. Deadline for applications 7 May 2021.

Professor Ronan Lyons is leading an online remote mission to Vietnam, on behalf of the IMF as part of its Data 4 Decisions initiative. The mission takes place in mid-March and will involve working with local officials to put in place a strategy to develop Residential Property Price Indices.

Professor Eleanor Denny is the Director of the Department’s New MSc in Economic Policy. A unique collaboration between the Economics Department at TCD and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).  This exciting new MSc commences in January 2022 and is now accepting applications.

Professor Nicola Mastrorocco and Professor Joseph Kopecky have been awarded the Provost’s Prestigious PhD Project Award 2021. The award allows for two new fully funded PhD scholarships.

In their paper “Do Urban Wage Premia Reflect Lower Amenities? Evidence from Africa”, Martina Kirchberger, Doug Gollin and David Lagakos use new high-resolution evidence to examine whether higher wage levels of urban areas are offset by lower non-monetary amenities.

Professor Alejandra Ramos’s exceptional teaching efforts and achievements were recognised formally with a Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award. The prestige of the award reflects the value that Trinity places on promoting teaching as a scholarly activity .

The IMTCD hosted their third successful workshop on International Capital Flows and Financial Globalisation, featuring key scholars in the field. The half-day virtual event took place on Thursday, 17 of December 2020.

Philip R Lane, Chief Economics at the ECB will speak on “Monetary Policy in a Pandemic: Ensuring Fabourable Financial Conditions” at a special event hosted by the Department and IM-TCD. Register at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J5-hevW-TZiFN0Cj0o34hQ.

The Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, is seeking to appoint 1 Assistant Professor in Economics (Applied Social Data Analysis and Big Data), to commence on 1st August 2021.

Marcus Goldstein, Director of the Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) at the World Bank and Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Africa will speak on "Gender and Development: (R)evolution of our Understanding" at the TIME Annual Keynote Lecture, November 19th at 14:00

Professor in Economics, Carol Newman received a Walsh Scholarship for undertaking her PhD which she completed in 2001. The Alum Award celebrates achievements of an exceptional nature by a member of the Walsh Scholars Alumni of which there are 1,200 globally.

Danish is one of three doctoral students awarded an IRC scholarship. His research focuses on Essays in Development Economics.

Francesco is one of three doctoral students awarded an IRC scholarship. his research focuses on Political Polarization: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment .

Federico is one of three doctoral students awarded an IRC scholarship. His research focuses on Essays in Political Economy: Voting Behaviour, Organised Crime and Weak States .

In her paper on “Intra-household Allocation of Time and Money across Siblings” Professor Kirchberger examines how work and consumption are allocated within the family which has important consequences for the welfare of individual household members.

In their paper “Weber revisited: The Protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism”,Iris Wohnsiedler, Felix Kersting and Nikolaus Wolf revisit Max Weber’s famous hypothesis on the influence of a Protestant work ethic on economic development and empirical tests.

The award, which recognises outstanding research by authors who are no more than three years past their PhD defence, was presented to Dr Mastrorocco, and his co-author Dr Arianna Ornaghi (University of Warwick), for their research project: "Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behaviour in the United States".