Qualifications

DPhil, University of York

Publications: 

Refereed Journal articles

• “Long-Run and Short Run Linkages between Stock Prices and Interest Rates in the G-7”.  Joint with Bruce Morley. Applied Economics Letters, Vol 7 (2000)
• “The lifetime of a unilateral target zone: Some extended results,” Journal of International Money and Finance Vol 20 (2001) 419-438
• “The Stock Market, Money Demands and the Asian Crisis." Joint with Dr Bruce Morley, Journal of Asian Economics Vol 15 (2004), 189-197
• “Stock prices and the monetary model of the exchange rate: An empirical investigation,” Joint with Bruce Morley, Chinese International Conference on Financial Engineering: Papers and Proceedings, (2005).
• “Limited reserves and the optimal width of an exchange rate target zone,” Open Economies Review, Vol 16 (2005), 263-281

Book Chapter

• Differences in Investment Patterns around the world: Chapter 18 of Surveys in Finance, Oxford University Press Eds H. Kent Baker & Leigh Riddick

Current Research

• A DSGE model of the Irish Crisis – the role of house prices and the financial accelerator
• Extensions to the competence model of the political business cycles.

Research Grants

2002-2007, Member of the Maynooth Finance Research Group, partners in the Institute for International Integration Studies, based at Trinity College Dublin, and were successful in obtaining €8.4 million in funding under Cycle 3 of the PRTLI.

• Political Economy
• Macroeconomic Theory 1 & 2 (MA)
• Maths for Economists (MA)

PhD Students

Julie Byrne 2009
Colin Birmingham (joint with Prof. M. Roche) 2010