Seminar: Joel Mokyr

Seminar Announcement

 

Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University)

Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Origins

of Modern Economic Growth

 

4.00 p.m.

Friday 7^th September 2012

G214

Henry Newman Building, UCD

Joel Mokyr is Robert Strotz Professor of Economics at Northwestern, and one of the foremost economic historians of modern times.  His books include Industrialization in the Low Countries, 1795-1850 (1976); Why Ireland Starved: An Analytical and Quantitative Study of Irish Poverty, 1800-1851 (1983); The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (1993); The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy (2002); and The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850.  He is also editor-in chief of The OUP Encyclopedia of Economic History and editor of the ongoing Princeton The Princeton Economic History of the Western World.

UCD Summer Seminar Series

From John Regan:

Next Monday (July 16th), Martin Ryan and Alan Fernihough will be presenting their ongoing research as part of the Summer Seminar Series.

Martin's presentation will be on  "Econometric Analysis of Scientific Production at U.S. Universities: A Preliminary Examination of Researchers' Publication Output"  and Alan will be presenting on "The Fertility Transition did not Influence Infant Mortality: Evidence from Early Modern Germany". 

Seminars take place in the Geary Seminar Room from 1pm to 2pm each week until the end of July. Each presentation, with time for questions, will last about 30 minutes.

Online research seminars

I tested out google hangout with some people the other day and we will use this for some informal group seminars. I will post details here. If anyone has something they would like to present, then please let me know. Hangout allows 9 people to sit in on an online seminar which should be fine for informal ones. I can post something in more detail at a later stage. For now I think it would be a good mechanism to present something early stage before presenting to an external audience, similar to how we used the irregular 'interdisciplinary' series in Geary when I was based there.

Seminar in Geary: Wednesday December 14th

Professor Patrick Walsh has circulated details about a seminar in the UCD Geary Institute tomorrow (Wednesday 14th December) at 1pm. The title of the talk is "Civic Awareness: Intergenerational Transmission of Civic Attitudes or just Schooling". And the speaker is Daniel Miles Touya from Universidad de Vigo, Spain.

Goldthorpe Seminar Tuesday 22nd 1pm

Oxford's Professor John Goldthorpe will present in the Geary Seminar room tomorrow at 1pm. Dr. Goldthorpe's work on social class is extremely influential and this is a seminar that anyone in Geary with a broad interest in social inequality should attend.

Dr John Goldthorpe, University of Oxford

Tue, February 22, 1pm – 2pm

Geary Seminar Room (map)

'Back to Class and Status: or Why a Sociological View of Social Inequality Should be Reasserted'

Upcoming Talks on Science, Innovation and the Economy

10th November: Panel Discussion: What's Smart about Ireland's Smart Economy in 2010?
A panel discussion with Dick Ahlstrom (chairman), Science Editor of the Irish Times; Professor John FitzGerald, ESRI; Dr Brian Kelly, CEO of Celtic Catalysts; Karlin Lillington, Technology journalist, Sean O’Driscoll (CEO Glen Dimplex) and Ferdinand von Prondzynski, former President of Dublin City University.

Organisers: Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Times
Admission is free but booking is essential.

11th November: The Long Debate: Debate on the Innovation Taskforce Report
Taking place in the NDRC on the 11th of November, the debate will draw on the findings of the Innovation Taskforce report.

Launched in March 2010, the report sets out recommendations for developing Ireland into an International Innovation Hub. Members of the Taskforce, including some of Ireland’s leading economic commentators, industry and government members, academics, creatives and entrepreneurs will be in attendance to discuss the nature of innovation within Ireland.

Organisers: Inventorium
Debate: 19.00-22.00
NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8
Registration for this event is essential.

17th November: Panel Discussion: Can Science be a Business?
A panel discussion with Dick Ahlstrom (chairman), Science Editor of the Irish Times; Professor Luke O’Neill, TCD; Dr Ena Prosser, Fountain Healthcare Partners; Professor Mark O’Malley, UCD; Professor Emmeline Hill (UCD).

Organisers: Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Times
Admission is free but booking is essential.

Tuesday Seminar: Matt Dickson

Dr Matt Dickson (University of Bristol) will be giving a talk in the Geary Behavioural Seminar Series next Tuesday, as follows:

Speaker: Dr Matt Dickson

Seminar Title: "The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited"

Venue: Seminar room B003/4, Geary Institute

Date: Tuesday 12th October 2010

Time: 1pm

Geary Health Symposium

The Geary Institute in conjunction with the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science will hold an event on September 9th designed to discuss research at the interface of economics and medicine taking place within the university. The keynote speaker is Professor David Meltzer from the University of Chicago. The venue is the Geary Institute seminar room. All are welcome.

1100    Peter Carney (UCD) - "Health Insurance and Health"

1130    Sarah Gibney (UCD) - "Networks, Health and Ageing"

1200     Mark McGovern (UCD) - "Early Life Conditions and Health

1230     Eimear Crowe (St Vincents & UCD Geary Institute) - "Stress, Ageing and Well-Being"

1300    Lunch

1345     David Meltzer (Chicago) - "Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine."

1445     Padraic MacMathuna (Mater/UCD) - "Clinical Pathways for GI Treatment - Some Initial Experiments."

1515    Coffee

1530    Kanika Kapur (UCD) - "Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?"

1600    Michael Daly (TCD & UCD Geary Institute) - "Cortisol, Affect and Psychological Distress"

1630     Eibhlin Hudson "Vignettes and Childhood Health"

Seminar on Sanitary Reform in 19th century Irish Hospitals

Spring-Summer Seminar Series 2010

‘Pure air, pure water and good light’

Sanitary reform in the Dublin hospitals, 1858-1898

Prof. Gerard Fealy

Director, UCD Irish Centre for Nursing and Midwifery History

All welcome

Thursday 29^th April, 2010 – 5.30pm

Room B116, UCD Health Sciences Centre

Tomorrow's Seminar: Uwe Sunde

March 16th:  1pm: Geary Seminar Room 


Uwe Sunde (University of St. Gallen). 


"On the stability of risk and time preferences"

Health Economics Seminar Friday 12th School of Economics

Matt Sutton (Manchester) will present "The effect of public sector health funding on population health outcomes" (joint work with John Wildman and Steve Morris). The abstract is below.

The seminar is set for Friday February 12 at 3pm in G214 of the Newman (Arts/Commerce) Building, UCD.

Abstract
Despite the obvious importance to policymakers and the growing evidence on the costs and benefits of health programmes at micro-level, there is relatively little research evidence on the health impact of public sector decisions on levels and distribution of health funding at macro-level. We exploit the existence of a funding formula in use in England which differentially allocates resources on the basis of a range of factors to estimate the effect of variations in health funding between populations on their health outcomes. Since funding is endogenous to health outcomes, we use the non-health factors in this formula as instruments for health funding. We undertake the analysis using a range of health measures, units of analysis and time periods. When corrected for endogeneity, we find that public sector health funding is consistently associated with lower morbidity and mortality, especially where this is amenable to health care intervention, and not associated with the birth rate (an anti-test). We find elasticities in the range 0.5-1.0 suggesting that population health is quite sensitive to funding decisions and that it should be possible to re-allocate funding to reduce geographical inequalities in health.

Regards,

Professor David Madden (Head of School, 2009-2012),
School of Economics,
University College Dublin,

Centre for Financial Markets Seminar: Olivier Scaillet

From Professor John Cotter:

The next seminar hosted by the Centre for Financial Markets (CFM) will take place next Thursday January 21 between 2-3.15pm at the Smurfit School of Business, Carysfort Avenue, UCD. The venue for the paper is Room N302.   

The paper is to be given by at Olivier Scaillet (HEC, Université de Genève):

"Detecting spurious jumps in high frequency data"

Details for the speaker are available at

http://hec.info.unige.ch/professeurs/SCAILLET_Olivier/pages_web/Home_Page_of_Olivier_Scaillet.htm

This paper is being presented in association with the SFI Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) in the area of Financial Mathematics and Computation.

We looking forward to meeting you there and at future seminars.  We would appreciate if you could circulate this notice as widely as possible.

Provisional Seminar List for 2010

This may change slightly in the next week, but our provisional seminar list is available here . External speakers are Richard Layte, John O'Doherty, Uwe Sunde, Steve Pudney, Martin Lindeboom, Gaia Narcisso, Gilberto Turati, Michel Boivin, Thomas Crossley, Joachim Winter, Pedro Carneiro, Johannes Binswanger and Richard Tol. As always, all are welcome. Seminars will be announced on this blog, as well as on the Geary mailing list.

ESRI Policy Seminar

ESRI Policy Seminar: "Building Regulatory Capacity"

Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 26/11/2009
Time: 16:00
Speaker: Cathal Guiomard, Commission for Aviation Regulation.

This paper aims to assess the current capacity of the regulatory system in Ireland (encompassing both independent regulators and their parent Departments), in terms of both inputs and outputs, and recommend how it can be improved. It describes the current economic regulatory landscape in Ireland, in particular the rate at which new regulators have been created, or new functions added to existing offices, in recent years. The consistency of the stated rationales for these regulatory actions with the Government’s Better Regulation agenda is explored.

The paper describes the current resourcing of the main economic regulators, in terms of their financing, staff numbers and the professional qualifications of staff. This represents the input side of the equation. On the output side, the paper summarises the findings of recent efforts to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of both regulators and their parent Departments, such as the Review of the Economic Regulatory Environment published by the Department of the Taoiseach; the Report of the Government Task Force on the Public Service; and the Report of the Organisational Review Programme (Pilot Phase) covering the Departments of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Enterprise, Trade and Employment; and Transport. The paper recommends actions to build both regulatory capacity (in independent regulators) and policy capacity (in Departments), focusing on the appropriate division of responsibilities; the necessary resources, skills and strategies; and communication between regulators and Departments. Finally, it calls for increased emphasis on ex-post evaluation and academic study, and the creation of clear and mutually agreed performance targets for regulators.

No booking required. All welcome.

Details of forthcoming ESRI Seminars can be found at www.esri.ie.

Dublin Economics Seminar

Dublin Economics Seminar
Tuesday October 6, 2009
2:00-6:00 pm
Geary Institute – UCD

link to website (from Ron Davies)

Eric Igou: Geary Seminar

September 29th 2009.

1pm UCD Geary Institute Seminar Room.

Eric Igou (University of Limerick)

"Self versus other: On differences in predicting negative affective states".

James P Smith - Ulysses Lecture

Dear Colleagues.

On the 15th of October 2009, UCD will award the Ulysses medal to Professor James Smith, former head of the Labour and Population Centre at RAND and two-time recipient of the National Institute of Aging Merit Award. Professor Smith's lecture will take place in the Conway Lecture Theatre in the Conway Institute at 4pm. The title of the lecture is "Effects of Childhood Mental and Physical Health on Adult Socioeconomic Status". There will be coffee both before and after the lecture. Those wishing to attend, please rsvp to geary@ucd.ie

Further details of Professor's Smiths work are available on the webpages below.

http://www.rand.org/about/people/s/smith_james_p.html

http://ideas.repec.org/e/psm28.html

Complex Systems and Computational Social Science Roundtable

I've also added the Complex Systems and Computational Social Science Roundtable to the Seminar Listings. Wednesdays 3pm to 5pm. Organised by Diane Payne (Diane.Payne@ucd.ie)

16th September 2009
Diane Payne
UCD
Micro-processes, macro-outcomes for collective decision making

23rd September 2009
Mandy Lee
TCD
Multidisciplinary team working in Irish healthcare: case studies using social network analysis.

7th October 2009
Padraig Cunningham
UCD
Centrality Measures in Social Networks

21st October 2009
Petra Ahrweiler
UCD
Network Models, Governance, and R&D Collaboration Networks

4th November 2009
Tahar Kechadi
UCD
The Value of Questioning What You Know

18th November 2009
Tahar Kechadi
UCD
The Data Wave: Data Management and Mining

25th November 2009
Uwe Obermeier
UCD
CSCS PhD Presentation

20th January 2010
Brendan Murphy
UCD
Model Selection and Model Averaging

27th January 2010
Jos Elkink
UCD
An agent-based model of the international diffusion of democracy

10th February 2010
Nial Friel
UCD
Markov random field models for social network analysis

17th February
Michel Schilperoord
UCD
Simulating Innovation Networks and Regional Development

24th February 2010
Claire Gormley
UCD
Statistical modeling and social networks

24th March 2010
Conrad Lee
UCD
CSCS PhD Presentation

31st March 2010
Dan Maher
UCD
CSCS PhD Presentation

14th April 2010
Deirdre Kirke
NUI Maynooth
Computational Social Science and Sociological Theory

NUI Galway Seminars

I have added a link to the sidebar for the NUI Galway series organised by Brendan Kennelly and colleagues.

September - 2009
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Gregory Connor, NUI Maynooth. TITLE: "Irish Risky Lending Gap".
Fri 18 Sep
1.00 p.m. Friday 18th September, 2009
To be announced

Economics Seminar
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Hugh Kelley, NUI Galway. TITLE: "The relative influences of land owner and landscape heterogeneity in an agent based model of land use".
Fri 25 Sep
1.00 p.m. Friday 25th September, 2009
To be announced

Economics Seminar
October - 2009
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Brenda Gannon, NUI, Galway. TITLE: "Exploring the relationship between cost of disability, standard of living and unobserved individual effects: An application of the Generalised ordered response model"
Fri 2 Oct
1.00 p.m. Friday 2nd October, 2009
To be announced

Economics Seminar
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Vani Borooah, University of Ulster. TITLE: "Linguistic Elitism in the Irish Labour Market: How much Advantage is there to Workers in Ireland Speaking Irish? Evidence from the 2006 Census".
Fri 16 Oct
1.00 p.m. Friday 16 th October, 2009
To be announced

Economics Seminar
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Rod Garrett, University of Santa Barbara and Bank of England. TITLE: To be announced.
Fri 23 Oct
1.00 p.m. Friday 23rd October, 2009.
To be announced.

Economics Seminar
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Liam Delaney, University College Dublin. TITLE: Angela's Ashes to the Celtic: Early Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland.
Fri 30 Oct
1.00 p.m. Friday 30th October, 2009.
To be announce

Economics Seminar
November - 2009
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Ron Davies, University College Dublin. TITLE: "Tax Competition in an Expanding European Union".
Fri 6 Nov
1.00 p.m. Friday 6th November, 2009.
To be announced.

Economics Seminar
SPEAKER: Catia Batista,Trinity College Dublin. "Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment".
Fri 13 Nov
1.00 p.m. Friday 13th November, 2009.
To be announced.

Economics Seminar
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Matt Cole, University of Oregon; University College Dublin. TITLE: "Optimal Tariffs with FDI: The Evidence".
Fri 20 Nov
1.00 p.m. Friday 20th November, 2009.
To be announced.

Economics Seminar
ECONOMICS SEMINAR: Speaker: Sean O’Riain, Maynooth University. "Growth, Social Reproduction and Governance".
Fri 27 Nov
1.00 p.m. Friday 27th November, 2009.
To be announced.

Economics Seminar

Geary Seminars

The current line-up for our seminar series is below. This is a provisional list. I would encourage everyone to engage fully with this series and we hope to continue the strong culture that our seminar programme has fostered over the last number of years. As you can see, there will also be a number of full and half-day events devoted to specific topics. Please sign up to the Geary Institute mailing list if you want to receive updates:

http://geary.ucd.ie/about-us/51-mailing-list

September 29th 2009. Eric Igou (University of Limerick) "Self versus other: On differences in predicting negative affective states".

October 2nd 2009. "Seventh Annual Irish Society of New Economists Conference" Co-organised by Geary Institute.

October 6th 2009. Wako Yushida (UCL). "Game Theory and Theory of Mind"

October 15th 2009. James P Smith (RAND Corporation). "Ulysses Medal Honorary Presentation".

October 13th 2009. Seamus McGuinness (ESRI). "Education Economics".

October 20th 2009. Roman Raab (NUIG). "State Pensions and Retirement Behaviour in Ireland".

October 27th 2009. Michael Daly (Trinity College Dublin). "Heridity Links Natural Hazards and Human Health: Apolipoprotein E Gene Moderates Self-rated Health in Earthquake Survivors.

November 2nd 2009: Third DEW Irish Economic Recovery Conference co-organised by Geary Institute.

November 3rd 2009: Arnaud Chevalier (Royal Holloway). "Quality Effect in Higher Education"

November 6th 2009: Second Economics, Psychology and Neuroscience Conference co-organised by Geary Institute.

November 10th 2009: Andrew Chesher (UCL and IFS, Director of CEMMAP). "Microeconometrics - TBA"

November 14th 2009: Geary Education Inequalities Symposium organised by Geary Institute.

November 17th 2009. Isabelle Ouellet-Morin (King's College, University of London) "Cortisol and Behaviour - TBA"

November 24th 2009. Richard Tol (ESRI) "Climate Change".

December 1st 2009: Thomas Crossley (IFS and Cambridge). "Microeconometrics - TBA"

December 8th 2009. Massimiliano Bratti (University of Milan) "Education and health-related behaviour:Evidence from the UK" (joint with Alfonso Miranda).

December 14th 2009. Second Geary Institute Health Symposium.

January 26th 2010. Richard Layte (ESRI). "Health Selection and Education Outcomes: Evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study of Children".

February 2nd 2010. John O'Doherty (TCD). "Neuroeconomics - TBA"

February 16th 2010. Stephen Lea (University of Exeter). "Economic Psychology - TBA".

February 23rd 2010. Uwe Sunde (University of St. Gallen). "On the stability of risk and time preferences"

March 2nd 2010. Michel Boivin (Universite Laval). "School Readiness - TBA"

March 9th 2010. Orla Doyle (UCD Geary Institute) "Skills, capabilities and Inequality: Assessing School Readiness in Disadvantaged Communities"

April 20th 2010. Gaia Narcisso (Trinity College Dublin). "Microeconometrics TBA"

April 27th 2010. Gilberto Turati (Universita Cattolica del sacro Cuore, Milano) "Educational Economics - TBA"