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Biography
I am an Associate Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, where I am also Director of Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS) and a PI at the Centre for Economics, Policy & History (CEPH). My research focuses on housing markets, urban economics and economic history and in particular on the intersection of those areas: how housing markets evolve in urban environments over the long run. My academic research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, the Journal of Housing Economics, Energy Economics, and Regional Science & Urban Economics. I am a consultant to the IMF on residential property prices, a frequent contributor to national and international media on Irish housing and the broader economy and the author of the quarterly Daft.ie Reports on the Irish housing market. From 2017 to 2022, I was a Board Member of the Higher Education Authority and I was also a member of Ireland's 2022-2023 Housing Commission, advising government on housing policy.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- Ronan C. Lyons, Housing supply in Ireland since 1990: the role of costs and regulation, Journal of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 44, 2015, p141 - 155Journal Article, 2015, URL
- Richard S. Grossman & Ronan C. Lyons & Kevin H. O'Rourke & Madalina A. Ursu, A monthly stock exchange index for Ireland, 1864-1930, European Review of Economic History, 18, (3), 2014, p248 - 276Journal Article, 2014, DOI
- Salem S. Gharbia, Ronan Lyons, Owen Naughton, Vincent Farrelly, Francesco Pilla, Attitudes to systemic risk: the impact of flood risk on the housing market in Dublin, 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference MELECON 2016, Cyprus, 18-20 April, IEEE, 2016Conference Paper, 2016, TARA - Full Text
- Kerri Agnew and Ronan C. Lyons, The impact of employment on housing prices: Detailed evidence from FDI in Ireland, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 70, 2018, p174 - 189Journal Article, 2018
- Sarah Stanley, Ronan C. Lyons, Sean Lyons, The Price Effect of Building Energy Ratings in the Dublin Residential Market, Energy Efficiency, 9, (4), 2016, p875 - 885Journal Article, 2016, DOI
- Housing and Austerity: A Two-Way Street in, editor(s)Emma Heffernan, John McHale and Niamh Moore-Cherry , Debating austerity in Ireland: crisis, experience and recovery, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2017, pp125 - 139, [Ronan C. Lyons]Book Chapter, 2017, TARA - Full Text
- Ronan C. Lyons, Can list prices accurately capture housing price trends? Insights from extreme markets conditions, Finance Research Letters, 30, 2019, p228 - 232Journal Article, 2019, DOI
- Andrew Linn, Ronan C. Lyons, Three Triggers? Negative Equity, Income Shocks and Institutions as Determinants of Mortgage Default, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2019, p1 - 27Journal Article, 2019, DOI
- Rishi Ahuja, Ronan C. Lyons , The silent treatment: discrimination against same-sex relations in the sharing economy, Oxford Economic Papers, 71, (3), 2019, p564 - 576Journal Article, 2019, DOI
- Francesco Pilla, Salem S. Gharbia, Ronan C. Lyons, How do households perceive flood-risk? The impact of flooding on the cost of accommodation in Dublin, Ireland, Science of The Total Environment, 650, (1), 2019, p144 - 154Journal Article, 2019, DOI
- Ronan C. Lyons, Credit conditions and the housing price ratio: Evidence from Ireland's boom and bust, Journal of Housing Economics, 42, 2018, p84 - 96Journal Article, 2018, DOI
- J. Carroll, R. Lyons and E. Denny, The Impact of Energy Cost Labelling on Property Energy Efficiency Premiums: Preliminary Results from a National RCT with daft.ie, 2019 16th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019, 2019, pp1 - 5Conference Paper, 2019, DOI
- Richard Keely and Ronan C. Lyons, Housing Prices, Yields and Credit Conditions in Dublin since 1945, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 64, (3), 2022, p404--439Journal Article, 2022, DOI
- Alan de Bromhead, Ronan C. Lyons, Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland, Journal of Urban Economics, 138, 2023, p103603Journal Article, 2023
- Tom Gillespie, Stephen Hynes, Ronan C. Lyons, The Value of a Sea View: Hedonic Estimates Using 3D Simulation and Natural Language Processing, Land Economics, 2023, p071522-0056RJournal Article, 2023
- Maximilian Günnewig-Mönert, Ronan C. Lyons, Housing prices, costs, and policy: The housing supply equation in Ireland since 1970, Real Estate Economics, 52, (4), 2024, p1075-1102Journal Article, 2024
- Ronan C. Lyons and Elisa Tirindelli, The Rise & Fall of Urban Concentration in Britain: Zipf, Gibrat and Gini across two centuries, The Annals of Regional Science, 73, 2024, p1995 - 2018Journal Article, 2024, DOI
- Tom Gillespie, Ronan C. Lyons and Thomas K.J. McDermott, Estimating the flood risk discount: Evidence from a one-off national information shock, Environmental and Resource Economics, 88, (2), 2025, p1 - 19Journal Article, 2025
- Ronan C. Lyons, The real value of house prices: what the cost of accommodation can tell policymakers, Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 41, 2012, p71 - 91Journal Article, 2012, DOI
- Marie Hyland, Ronan C. Lyons & Sean Lyons, The value of domestic building energy efficiency - evidence from Ireland, Energy Economics, 40(C), 2013, p943 - 952Journal Article, 2013, DOI , URL
- Ronan C Lyons, East, west, boom and bust: the spread of house prices and rents in Ireland, 2007-2012, Journal of Property Research, 2014Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL
- The spread of rents in Ireland, over time and space in, editor(s)Lorcan Sirr , Renting in Ireland, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2014, [Ronan C. Lyons]Book Chapter, URL , TARA - Full Text
- Housing Market: Supply, Pricing and Servicing Issues in, editor(s)John O'Hagan and Francis O'Toole , The Economy of Ireland - Policy & Performance, Dublin, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017, pp309 - 334, [Ronan C. Lyons]Book Chapter
- Ronan C. Lyons, Ireland in 2040: Urbanization, demographics and housing, Journal of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 47, 2018, p122 - 128Journal Article
- Inside a Bubble & Crash: Evidence from the valuation of amenities in, editor(s)Morten Balling & Jesper Berg , Property prices and real estate financing in a turbulent world, Vienna, SUERF, 2013, pp108 - 133, [Ronan C Lyons]Book Chapter
- Shailendra Mudgal, Lorcan Lyons, François Cohen, R Lyons, D Fedrigo-Fazio, Energy performance certificates in buildings and their impact on transaction prices and rents in selected EU countries, Brussels, European Commission, 2013Report, URL
- Housing Market: Supply, Pricing and Servicing Issues in, editor(s)O'Hagan, J. and O'Toole, F. and Whelan, C. , {The Economy of Ireland: Policy Making in a Global Context, London, Bloomsbury Publishing}, 2021, pp349 - 373, [Ronan C Lyons]Book Chapter
- James Carroll, Eleanor Denny, Ronan C. Lyons, Ivan Petrov, Better energy cost information changes household property investment decisions: Evidence from a nationwide experiment, Energy Economics, 139, 2024Journal Article, DOI
- Ed Burke and Ronan Lyons (editors), Next Generation Ireland, Dublin, Orpen Press, 2011Book, URL
Research Expertise
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TitleH2PINA - Historical House Prices in North America, 1900-1960SummaryBuilding a dataset of sales and rental listings for North American housing markets, for the period 1900-1960, from newspaper archivesFunding AgencyTrinity College DublinDate FromMay 2015Date ToApril 2016
Economics and Business Administration,
Recognition
- Foundation Scholarship, Trinity College (Dublin) 2000
- Barrington Medal 2015
- Depfa Bank Scholarship 2001
- Foley-Béjar Scholarship, Balliol College (Oxford) 2011
- Economic History Association
- Economic History Society
- Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
- Urban Economics Association
- American Economic Association
- Irish Economic Association
- Royal Economic Society December 2018
- American Real Estate & Urban Economics Association
- European Economic Association December 2015
- Economic & Social History Society of Ireland December 2019
- Reviewer, Financial History Review Since 2015
- Board Member, Higher Education Authority 2017-2022
- Reviewer, Journal of Economic History Since 2019
- Reviewer, Journal of Property Research Since 2016
- Reviewer, Journal of European Real Estate Research Since 2016
- Reviewer, Oxford Economic Papers Since 2013
- Member, Department of Housing 'Housing Needs & Demand Assessment' Advisory Group 2019
- Reviewer, Energy Economics Since 2012
- Reviewer, Regional Science & Urban Economics Since 2016
- Reviewer, International Tax and Public Finance Since 2016
- Reviewer, Journal of Real Estate Research Since 2017
- Reviewer, American Economic Journal: Applied Since 2023
- Reviewer, Scandinavian Economic History Review Since 2019
- Committee member, Dublin Economics Workshop (2016-2022; Chair, 2016-2018). Responsible for organising high-profile annual policy conference, where speakers include government Ministers and top civil servants as well as international experts. 2016-2022
- Invited appearance at Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning, Community & Local Government, on the topic of short-term lettings June 2018
- Commissioner, Irish Housing Commission 2021-2024
- Reviewer, Journal of Housing Economics Since 2022
- Reviewer, Journal of Urban Economics Since 2019
- Member of the Editorial Board of Financial Research Letters 2016-2020
- Reviewer, International Review of Financial Analysis Since 2014
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Since 2023
- Reviewer, Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics Since 2017
- Reviewer, Explorations in Economic History Since 2015
- Reviewer, African Tax Institute Working Paper Series 2018
- Reviewer, European Review of Economic History Since 2017
- Reviewer, Land Use Policy Since 2019
- Reviewer, European Research Council (Starting Grant) 2022
- Reviewer, Economic & Social Review Since 2017
- Review, International Journal of Central Banking 2021
- Reviewer, Yale University Press 2017
- Reviewer, Enterprise and Society Since 2020
- Reviewer, Energy Journal Since 2020
- Invited appearance at Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness, on the topic of addressing Ireland's housing crisis May 2016
- Invited appearance at the Oireachtas Finance Committee, on the topic of mortgage finance and insurance November 2014
- Reviewer, Economic History Review Since 2016
- Reviewer, Applied Economics Since 2024
- Journal of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: Reviewer, since 2015. Editorial Board, 2018-2022. Since 2015
- Reviewer, Journal of Development Economics Since 2019
- Member, Department of Housing 'Technical Working Group on Apartment Planning Policies' 2017
- Reviewer, Real Estate Economics Since 2021
- Council Member, Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI) and Honorary Secretary (2018-2022). The Society has been in existence since 1847 and, through its public meetings each year, provides a unique meeting ground for discussion between decision-makers in the public service, business, trade union, academic and research communities. Since 2017