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On Friday, September 27^th, a conference was held in the RIA, jointly organised by the ESRI and IM-TCD in honour of Patrick Honohan and his contributions to Irish economic policy.

Professor Barra Roantree was invited to give evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development on the subject of the CFI-ESRI report on poverty. The report was co-authored by Professor Roantree, director of the joint ESRI-TCD MSc in Economic Policy

Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, led a Grattan Talk in the Trinity Long Room Hub yesterday for an audience of undergraduate students and Department of Economics staff. The event was opened by Head of Department Agustín Bénétrix.

"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.