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My new column for @socialeurope is now online. I argue that without major reforms of the Stability and Growth Pact public investment in the euro area will be suffocated in the post-COVID era. socialeurope.eu/easing-the-eu-…

Surprise, surprise! Fiscal austerity causes political polarisation: "macro-level analysis of 166 elections since 1980 finds that austerity increases both electoral abstention and votes for non-mainstream parties", thereby boosting polarisation: researchgate.net/publication/33…

"Is Gender Equality Smart Economics?" (Dec 2014) by Clodagh Moriarty (BCL Law with Politics '15) europedebate.ie/gender-equalit… via UCD_DEI

RE redistributive effects of the European Health Insurance Card. Our surprising ⁦European Research Council (ERC)⁩ ⁦results. ⁦University College Dublin⁩ Dublin City University ⁦UCD_DEI⁩ ⁦HealthNotForSale⁩ ⁦⁦⁦⁦Aidan Regan⁩ ⁦⁦⁩⁦⁦Andreas Bieler 🇵🇸⁩ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Jesper Lindqvist's "Separating Left from Right in Eastern Europe: Re-examining Attitudes Towards Inequality" is now available as working paper: ideas.repec.org/p/ucd/wpaper/2… #RePEc via St. Louis Fed

It is a very important column by Martin Wolf . I wish it was not beyond the paywall. It is almost a cri de coeur. ft.com/content/47144c…

“Roosevelt, as Biden will, took office amid a deep economic crisis. So did Obama, whom Biden served as vice-president. Both predecessors acted to end the economic downturn. But only one fundamentally reshaped the way the US economy worked.” Martin Sandbu ft.com/content/ec595c…

“Spain’s central bank governor suggests that the ECB could explore “yield curve control”, (...) [the policy] would not just improve monetary policymaking. It would also give significant support to the EU’s policy objective of a banking union.” Martin Sandbu ft.com/content/03e57b…

🇺🇸🏛 liam kennedy Opinion: 'America is back’: The delusion of normalcy that haunts the United States 👉 bit.ly/2MhQRVo 🗣 "The symbolism is strong, but it is less clear what is being restored." Prof Liam Kennedy, UCD Professor Of American Studies

Delighted to see this in print. New article with Doro Bohle in Politics & Society The Comparative Political Economy of Growth Models: Explaining the Continuity of FDI-led Growth in Ireland and Hungary. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… #PoliticalScience #PoliticalEconomy

Electoral politics is just noise in a growth regime. To get to what matters look at the interactions and interests of dominant corporations within a country and its policymaking elites. Superb article from Doro Bohle and Aidan Regan Politics and Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

The Biden stimulus makes the European one look puny. But let us also not forget that much of the US stimulus goes on an energy transition where the US had a yawning green gap with most European countries, except Poland. It's mostly catch up growth, then, not a revolution.

From research with Samuel Brazys where we estimate "phanthom" and "real" corporate taxes in Ireland. 40-50% of Ireland's corporate tax take (between $5-6 billion) could disappear under Joe Biden's tax plan. Gabriel Zucman #AmericanJobsPlan

Great to have Adam Kelly & Iryna Kovalchuk from Imaginative Literature and Social Trust present their paper on Curriculum Change in Ukraine with Conor Galvin & Joe Carthy. Four disciplines, one seminar. UCD Research

Thanks to Karl Whelan for an insightful discussion on The ECB and the European Parliament -- An "Expert Panellist" View and to Gavin Barrett now @profgbarrett.bsky.social for his thorough and reflective comments. Law and economics in concert. UCD Sutherland School of Law UCD Economics UCD Research UCD Politics and International Relations

Thanks EUFRA Director & UCD alumnus Michael O'Flaherty for a fascinating PhD Masterclass on 40+ yrs of HR Law. Law, politics, business, computer science and social policy students from 4 Dublin universities. EU Fundamental Rights ➡️ #HumanRights UCD Centre for HRts UCD Research UCD Sutherland School of Law UCD Politics and International Relations