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The inaugural Irish Public Economics Workshop (IPEW) took place in TCD on August 30, with the support of the Irish Research Council, the Foundation for Fiscal Studies, the Department of Economics at TCD and the School of Economics at UCD. It saw 18 research papers presented, alongside keynote lectures.

We would like to wish a very warm welcome to all of our new academic staff in the Department of Economics and the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy! Best of luck in the new academic year and beyond!

Professor Barra Roantree, director of the joint ESRI-TCD MSc in Economic Policy at TCD is co-author of this new report that details 230,000 children are currently estimated to experience material deprivation. Other key findings include the pandemic has had a damaging effect on life satisfaction and civic participation.

"Better energy cost information changes household property investment decisions: Evidence from a Nationwide experiement" is co-authored with James Carroll, Eleanor Denny (of Trinity College Dublin) and Ivan Petrov. It is the first paper to conduct a large controlled field trial for residential properties covering a nationwide market.

"Automatic for the (tax) people: Information sharing and cross-border investment in tax havens" is co-written by Lorenz Emter and Martin Schmitz. The paper examines the impact of international automatic exchange of information treaties on cross-border investments in tax havens.