Professor of Economics
Room 3004, Department of Economics
Arts Building, Trinity College
Dublin 2, Ireland
email: johagan@tcd.ie

 

Having completed in 1967 a degree in Electrical Engineering at University College Dublin, John O’Hagan subsequently obtained from the same university a B.A. and M.A. in economics and later a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin.  He has worked in Trinity College Dublin since 1970 and has been Professor of Economics since 2005.  He has been a visiting Scholar/Professor at the universities of York and Bath in England, Copenhagen in Denmark, and Cologne and Witten/Herdecke in Germany.  He was Head of the Department of Economics at Trinity for five years and Director of the Graduate Research Programme from 1990 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2008. He was College Bursar from 2001 to 2005 and he has been Director of the MSc in Economic Policy Studies (EPS) programme since 2008. He was a member of the College’s Audit Committee from 2007 to 2013.

He lectures on three undergraduate courses and one postgraduate course.  The first of the undergraduate courses is the Senior Freshman (second year) Economy of Ireland course.  He also lectures on the European Economy in the Junior Sophister (third) year, concentrating on the micro and policy side of the course.  His other undergraduate course is a half-year offering in public sector economics, also in the Junior Sophister year. He gives a year-long course for the MSc EPS on Irish Economic Affairs. He was awarded the prestigious Provost’s Life-Time Teaching Award in 2009.

He has been President of the annual undergraduate journal, Student Economic Review, since its inception in 1987.  Apart from the actual publication, there is an annual economics debate against either Cambridge or Oxford, and also since 2007, an economics debate against either Yale or Harvard.  These are hosted jointly with either the College Historical Society or the Philosophical Society, and generously and primarily funded by alumni.

 He was President of the Association for Cultural Economics International from 1998 to 2000.  He was a member of the Academic Programme Committee for the Association’s biennial conference in Copenhagen in June 2010.  He hosted the Fifth European Workshop in Applied Cultural Economics in Trinity in September 2011 and is on the scientific committee for the Sixth Workshop to be held in Ljubljana in September 2013.

In conjunction with colleagues in the School he has received generous funding from the J-P Foundation in London to hire five researchers from 2011 to 2016 to analyse the determinants of creative career success.  Three of the four graduate research students under his supervision are funded from this source.

He is also currently involved with an EU-funded project on cultural participation with academic colleagues in Belgium, Italy and Spain and hosted the first workshop of the Group in July 2012 and is due to host another in late 2013. He has also been invited on to the Advisory Board for a major EU funded FP-7 project on cultural heritage, and to chair a government-appointed group to review in 2013/14 value for money in the Irish Arts Council..

His recent publications are listed below, with a * indicating where the material has gone through a formal anonymous refereeing process.  As may be seen, his main areas of research interest are the economics of the arts and the Economy of Ireland book.  He also in recent years has written many articles for different Irish newspapers on current economic policy issues.

Books (from 2005)

2014	(forthcoming). Cultural Participation: Theory, Practice and Measurement (co-editor and contributor), Springer, Berlin.
2014	(forthcoming).  The Economy of Ireland: National and Sectoral Policy Issues (co-editor with Carol Newman and contributor) (twelfth edition), Gill and Macmillan, Dublin.
2011	Student Societies and Clubs; Current Structures and Historical Context, Long Room Hub, Dublin, November, 78pp (co-author J. Archbold).
2011	The Economy of Ireland: National and Sectoral Policy Issues (co-editor with Carol Newman and contributor) (eleventh edition with five out of eleven chapters new), Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 384pp.
2011	Student Societies and Clubs; Current Structures and Historical Context, Long Room Hub, Dublin, November, 78pp (co-author J. Archbold).
2008	The Economy of Ireland: Policy Issues for a Regional Economy (co-editor with Carol Newman and contributor) (tenth edition with five out of eleven chapters new), Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 348pp.
2005	The Economy of Ireland: National and Sectoral Policy Issues (co-editor with Carol Newman and contributor) (ninth edition with seven out of eleven chapters new), Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 314pp.

 

Articles/Book Chapters (from 2005)

2014	(forthcoming).   ‘Migration and Clustering of Creative Workers: Historical Case Studies of Visual Artists and Composers’, chapter in book to mark 10th anniversary of IIIS, Trinity College Dublin.
2013*	‘War and Individual Life-cycle Creativity: Tentative Evidence in Relation to Composers’, Journal of Cultural Economics (co-author K. Borowiecki), 347-358, Vol 37 (3).
2013	Sharing Economic Sovereignty: Beneficial or Not and Who Decides?  IIEA Governance Paper No. 2, May, 1-12.
2013*	‘Demand for Live Orchestral Music – The Case of German Kulturorchester’,  Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), (co-author, M. Zieba), 225-245, Vol 235 (2).
2012*	2012*  ‘Tax Expenditures: Pervasive, ‘Hidden’ and Undesirable Subsidies to the Arts?’ Homo Oeconomicus, 95-118, Vol 29. (2).
2012*	‘Historical Patterns Based on Automatically Extracted Data: the Case of Classical Composers’, Historical Social Research: Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 3 (No. 2), 298-314 (co-author K. Borowiecki)
2011	‘Population, Employment and Unemployment’, in O’Hagan and Newman (2011), 121-134 (see above, co-author  with T. McIndoe-Calder), pp. 138-173.
2011	‘Physical Infrastructure, Energy and the Environment’, in O’Hagan and Newman (2011) (see above, co-author with E. Denny), pp. 262-294.
2011	‘Tax Expenditures’, in R. Towse (ed.), Handbook of Cultural Economics (second edition),  Edward Elgar,  Cheltenham, pp. 408-412.
2010	‘Preface’ to Johanna Archbold, Creativity, the City, and the University: A Case Study of Collaboration between Trinity College Dublin and some Nearby Cultural Institutions, Long Room Hub, Dublin, May, pp. 1-10.
2010	‘The Arts and the Wealth of Nations: the Role of the State’, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, Vol 2, Issue 2, pp.40-52.
2010*	‘Output Characteristics and Other Determinants of Theatre Attendance: An Econometric Analysis of German Data’ Applied Economics Quarterly (co-author with M. Zieba) Vol. 56. No 2 (2010), pp 147-174.
2010*	‘Birth Location, Migration, and Clustering of Important Composers: Historical Patterns’, Historical Methods: Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (co-author with K. Borowiecki), Vol 43, No 2, April-June 2010, pp. 81-90.
2009	‘Business and Economic Change in Ireland since 1989’, in N. O’Mahony and C. O’Reilly (editors), Societies in Transition,  Nomos, Baden-Baden, pp 3-22.
2008*	‘Clustering and Migration of Important Visual Artists: Broad Historical Evidence’, Historical Methods: Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 41, pp.  ( (co-author with C. Hellmanzik)
2008	‘Population, Migration and Employment’, in O’Hagan and Newman (2008), 121-134 (see above, co-author  with T. McIndoe), pp. 112-144.
2008	‘Manufacturing and Physical Infrastructure’, in O’Hagan and Newman (2008) (see above, co-author with C. Newman), pp. 202-233.
2007	The Arts, Cultural Inclusion and Social Cohesion, National Economic and Social Forum Report No. 35, January (co-author with Anne-Marie McGauran).
2007*	‘Geographic Clustering of Economic Activity: the Case of Prominent Western Visual Artists’,                     Journal of Cultural Economics, Vol 31, pp. 109-128(co-author with E. Kelly)
2005*	‘State Subsidies and Repertoire Conventionality in the Non-Profit English Theatre Sector: An Econometric Analysis’, Journal of Cultural Economics, Vol. 29, pp. 35-57 (co-author with A. Neligan).
2005*	‘Identifying and Ranking the Most Important Artists in a Historical Context: Methods Used and Initial Results’, Historical Methods: Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 38, pp. 118-125 (co-author with E. Kelly).

 

September 2013