Friday, April 13, 2012

13/4/2012: Short-selling - more evidence that restriction hurt, not help financial stability

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Keeping up with some old topics of interest, here is another paper studying markets efficiency within the context of short-selling bans of ...

13/4/2012: Ireland's Green Economy

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Wading through some old (relatively) papers, I came across the Cleantech innovation study: “Coming Clean: The Cleantech Global Innovation I...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

11/4/2012: Irish Construction Sector PMI for March

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Irish construction PMI for March 2012 (published by Ulster Bank) posted a 58th consecutive monthly contraction with a reading of 46.7 again...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Live Register for March 2012 - additional trends

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In the previous post on live Register headline figures, I suggested that March 2012 data paints a mixed picture of some changes that might ...
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5/4/2012: Live Register for March 2012 - headline figures

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Live Register figures released yesterday provide the evidence for continued flat trend in unemployment with mild volatility to the downside...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

3/4/2012: Sunday Times 1/4/2012 - Deep Reforms, not Exports-led Recovery, are needed

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from 1/4/2012. After four years of the crisis, there are four ...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

2/4/2012: Q1 2012 US Mint Gold coins sales

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Time to update the data for Q1 2012 US Mint gold coins sales - something I have been doing as a sort of an ongoing project. As before, th...

2/4/2012: Impact of the middle class on economic, social and political institutions

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A fascinatingly interesting study of the effects the middle class has on economic, social and political institutions. The World Bank Poli...

2/4/2012: Two studies on Global Financial Crisis

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An interesting analysis of the International Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 from Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick, both Yale and NBER just out...
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2/4/2012: Banks bailouts and bonds eligibility

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Two important documents relating to banks bonds, Sovereign Guarantees and the bondholders' haircuts. First, the ECB decision of March...

2/4/2012: Improved Manufacturing PMI - March 2012

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Manufacturing PMI for March is out and there are some nicely positive surprises. First off - we bucked the trend on euro area manufacturi...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

1/4/2012: Flightless dodo - the Hunt of Chief Noonan

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I am not usually prone on updating my past posts, but the Promissory Notes 'deal' announced last week by Minister Noonan just keeps...
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