News Archive: Academic Year 2019 - 2020
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TCD/LSE/BREAD Conference in Development EconomicsTIME Conference in Development Economics, organised in collaboration with the LSE (CEPR) and BREAD will take place on zoom on the 2nd and 3rd of October 2020. Submissions are now open on any topic in development economics. Deadline Friday 4th September 2020. -
Professor Paul Scanlon publishes article in Economics LettersPaul Scanlon’s article "Aggregate Risk and Wage Dispersion" examining a link between labour income risk and inequality has been published in Economics Letters. -
Academic Research Fellowship - Féidhlim McGowanFéidhlim McGowan was awarded a TRiSS Postgraduate Research Fellowship for his project entitled: Measuring Accumulation Bias in Judgments of Household Bills. -
Academic Research Fellowship - Laura Muñoz BlancoAmongst those awarded TRiSS Postgraduate Research fellowships was Laura Muñoz Blanco for her project on The long-term social effects of Internal Displacement.
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The Department of Economics welcomes new Associate Professor, Selim GulesciSelim Gulesci will join the Department of Economics in August 2020. His research is at the intersection of labour, development and gender economics. -
Professor Martina Kirchberger chairs Webinar May 18th: COVID-19 and the Future of CitiesOn May 18th at 3pm, Prof. Edward Glaeser, Prof. Jessie Handbury, and Prof. Diego Puga discussed how cities are likely to develop after the pandemic. -
Professor Andrea Guariso awarded the Walter Isard Annual Award for Best Article in PEPSProf Andrea Guariso was awarded the Walter Isard Annual Award for Best Article in Peace Economics, Peace Science & Public Policy for his study with M Verpoorten titled “Armed conflict and schooling in Rwanda: Digging deeper”. -
The Departments of Economics and Political Science invite applications for the post of Professor of Political Economy. The successful applicant will be an outstanding scholar with a distinguished international research record. The closing date for applications is April 30th, 2020. -
Professor Davide Romelli Publishes in the Journal of Financial StabilityProfessor Davide Romelli, with Donato Masciandaro (Bocconi University) and Oana Peia (University College Dublin), has published the paper "Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics" in the Journal of Financial Stability. -
2020 Irish Economic Association Annual Meeting hosted by the Department of EconomicsThe Department of Economics is delighted to host the 2020 Irish Economic Association Annual Meeting in May 7-8 May 2020. Submissions deadline is 14th February. -
Prof. Eleanor Denny receives large research grantProf. Eleanor Denny has been awarded a large research grant of a €347,434 from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to investigate electric vehicle purchases in collaboration with Hyundai Ireland. -
JADE-CEPR-TIME-CREPE Conference on Economic DevelopmentThe special TIME Workshop on Economic Development takes place on the 18th and 19th of April 2020 in Tokyo Japan. Submissions are due before January 5th, 2020. The Workshop is organised in collaboration with JADE, CEPR and CREPE. -
Professor Gaia Narciso publishes in Explorations in Economic HistoryProfessor Gaia Narciso, with R Gray (UC Merced) and G Tortorici (Heidelberg), has published the paper titled "Globalization, agricultural markets and mass migration: Italy, 1881-1912" in Explorations in Economic History. The project was funded by the Irish Research Council. -
Professor Pascaline Dupas to give TIME Annual Keynote Lecture at Iveagh HousePascaline Dupas, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, will speak on "Improving Health Outcomes for the Bottom Billion" at the TIME Annual Keynote Lecture, November 13th at 17:00 at Iveagh House, 80 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 -
Professor Carol Newman co-authors EER Editors' Choice ArticleProfessor Carol Newman is one of the co-authors of “Technology Transfers, Foreign Investment and Productivity Spillovers” published in 2015, which has been selected as one of two Editor’s Choice articles on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the European Economic Review. -
Vacancy available for 18 month postdoctoral position in behavioural economics at Dept of EconomicsApplications now being accepted for this exciting postdoctoral position in behavioural and energy economics. -
Seeking Associate Professor in Economics (Labour Economics)The Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, is seeking to appoint 1 Associate Professor in Economics (Labour economics), to commence on 1st August 2020. -
Call for OECD Internship Application Now OpenThis year, Trinity can nominate up to 15 candidates for consideration for the opportunity to intern at the OECD in Paris. Senior Sophister students of Economics are invited to apply by October 7th.
Professor Agustín Bénétrix joins the editorial board of The Economic and Social Review (ESR)
He will act as Associate Editor at The Economic and Social Review (ESR), Ireland's leading journal for economics and applied social sciences. Professor Bénétrix will handle publications in the area of macroeconomics and international capital flows.
Economics PhD student, Feidhlim McGowan, announced as a winner in international essay competition
Feidhlim is one of three doctoral students who have won the 2019 Impact Essay awards from ING's Think Forward Initiative (TFI) and SABE, the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics. His research focusses on people's ability to estimate total costs for products that are paid over time.
Professor Martina Kirchberger publishes a chapter in Oxford University Press book
Professor Martina Kirchberger publishes a chapter on key issues of the construction sector in developing countries in the book “Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa".
The Departments of Economics and Political Science have been successful in obtaining funding for a Chair in Political Economy, one of the 20 women-only* professorship roles approved by the State early this month as part of the Senior Academic Leadership Initiative (SALI).
