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Economics Seminar Series                                                             

J. E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics

“ Obesity in Income and Wealth - A Tale of Fat Tails”

Peter Richmond

Friday 6th, February, 2 - 4pm

CA111, Lecture Hall 1, Cairnes Building, NUI Galway

Prof. Peter Richmond is a theoretical physicist and has wide experience of research, technology, innovation, management within both academic and commercial environments. Prof. Richmond has done some pioneering work in the filed of Econophysics, a sub-discipline of Complex Systems, which has brought new insights into the structure and dynamics of economic systems from point of view of non-linearity, 'emergence' and self-criticality. The study of complex systems has made significant contribution in understanding the ’far from equilibrium’ characteristics that we encounter in physical, biological and economic systems. The metaphors, methods and tools of Complex Systems have given us the ability to generate falsifiable models that generate the ’far from equilibrium’ characteristics in systems as diverse as sand-piles, earthquakes, microbial growth and financial markets. This talk will be on the specific issue of wealth distributions and modeling approaches that generate these distributions.

Prof. Richmond has over 160 publications in general and learned press on statistical physics, application of physics to finance, economic and social issues, agent models, colloid science/nanotechnology, science of food systems and engineering, magnetism and solid state physics; plus other reports for commercial companies, EU and UK government agencies.

Prof. Richmond is currently with the School of Physics in Trinity College, Dublin

All are welcome

In the literature on social choice with fuzzy preferences, a central question is how to represent the transitivity of a fuzzy binary relation. Arguably the most general way of doing this is to assume a form of transitivity called max-star transitivity. The star operator in this formulation is commonly taken to be a triangular norm. The familiar max-min transitivity condition is a member of this family, but there are infinitely many others. Restricting attention to fuzzy aggregation rules that satisfy counterparts of unanimity and independence of irrelevant alternatives, we characterise the set of max-star transitive relations that permit preference aggregation to be non-dictatorial. This set contains all and only those triangular norms that contain a zero divisor.

Economics Seminar Series  

“Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity ”

Ashley Piggins

Friday 30th, January 2009, 2-4 pm

CA111, Lecture Hall 1 (St. Anthony’s), NUI Galway

CISC SEMINAR

Thursday 22nd January 2009 5.45pm – 8.15pm

CA118, J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway

Galway Agile Forum

In today's environment the ability to deliver high quality software to the marketplace in as quick a time as possible is often the distinguishing factor between success and failure. To survive in this challenging landscape, more and more companies are adopting agile software development practices.

With this in mind ITAG will be facilitating a forum for the exchange of knowledge, experiences, ideas, and questions among those organisations and individuals either currently involved or interested in Agile development practices.

Inventing Entrepreneurs: Technology Innovators and their Entrepreneurial Journey

  Professor Gerard George

Date:                           Monday 26th January 2009

Venue:                        CA118, J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway

Time:                          6.30pm       

Enterprise Ireland in collaboration with the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change invites you to the second of four talks from renowned thought leaders in the areas of innovation and management.

Gerard George is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and serves as the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre at Imperial College London, and is an Advanced Institute of Management Innovation Fellow of the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Advanced Institute of Management fellowship supports his research on entrepreneurship and technology commercialisation in the UK and elsewhere. Professor George is an award-winning teacher and scholar and has published several articles in leading scholarly journals on the topics of resource constraints in entrepreneurial firms, value creation, and innovation in large and small organisations. His book (with Adam Bock) titled Inventing Entrepreneurs: Technology Innovators and their Entrepreneurial Journey (Prentice Hall, 2008) addresses the human side of innovation and technology transfer.  In October 2007, he completed a special report for the European Venture Capital Association titled Scaling Current Boundaries on the early stage venture capital and fundraising environment in Europe.  He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He also serves on the boards of high technology companies and is actively engaged in guiding start-ups and large companies on technology venturing and entrepreneurship.

We live in age of entrepreneurship, a period when transformative social changes stem from fundamental inventions and innovations. Extensive research has measured the impact of entrepreneurship on industry growth and on the economy. We know that the majority of job creation comes from entrepreneurial firms. Despite the spotlight that has played on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs one group of innovators has remained relatively unknown and under studied – the scientific inventors the researchers who solve fundamental problems and optimise technological solutions. Professor George’s talk will focus on scientific innovators and will deal with entrepreneurial purpose, cultivating an entrepreneurial identity, assembling the entrepreneurial tool kit, the managerial challenges and the common experiences of inventing entrepreneurs.

Economics seminar series

 “Extreme Measures of Agricultural Financial Risk”
John Cotter 

Friday 23rd, January 2009, 1-2 pm
SAC 1, St. Anthony’s, NUI Galway 
 
Abstract

Risk is an inherent feature of agricultural production and marketing and accurate measurement of it helps inform more efficient use of resources. This paper examines three tail quantile-based risk measures applied to the estimation of extreme agricultural financial risk for corn and soybean production in the US: Value at Risk (VaR), Expected Shortfall (ES) and Spectral Risk Measures (SRMs). We use Extreme Value Theory (EVT) to model the tail returns and present results for these three different risk measures using agricultural futures market data. We compare the estimated risk measures in terms of their size and precision, and find that they are all considerably higher than normal estimates; they are also quite uncertain, and become more uncertain as the risks involved become more extreme. 

Dr. John Cotter is a Professor of Economics in the Centre for Financial Markets, Smurfit School of Business, UCD  

BOOK LAUNCH

Irish Management 2.0:  New Managerial Priorities in a Changing Economy

Friday 16 ^th January 2009 at 6.30pm

Editors:  Dr. James Cunningham, J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI, Galway and Dr. Denis Harrington, School of Business, Waterford Institute of Technology 

Room CA116,  J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics

ECONOMICS SEMINAR

“Stochastic Dynamics of Ecological Interaction”

Christian-Oliver Ewald 

Friday 16th, January 2009, 2 - 4pm
CA111, Lecture Hall 1, Cairnes Building (St.Anthonys), NUI Galway 

Abstract
We combine and extend two existing lines of research in game theoretic studies of fisheries. The first line of research is the inclusion of the aspect of predation and the consideration of multi-species fisheries within classical game theoretic models of fisheries and goes back to Quirk and Smith (1977), Anderson (1975) and most recently Sumaila (1996). The models developed in this line are either static or discrete time and do not include ecological uncertainty. The second line of research includes continuous time and uncertainty, but focuses on single species models and does not capture any features of ecological interaction, see for example Jorgensen and Yeung (1996). In this article we develop a continuous time framework, where ecological interaction is described by a stochastic dynamics, including the cases of predator prey and competition. We obtain a stochastic differential game and derive feedback Nash-equilibrium strategies in semi-analytic form. Furthermore we compare the results with the case where fisheries regulations restrict each fishery as to only being allowed to fish one particular species and study the inefficiencies which arise from this. In addition to that, we also consider the case where fisheries cooperate. Here we observe quite different effects on the ecosystem, depending on whether the system is competitive or predator prey.

Dr. Christian-Oliver Ewald is a Professor of economics in the University of St. Andrews.

INNOVATION Seminar

under the

Inter TradeIreland All-Island Innovation Programme

Date:                          Thursday 20th November 2008

Time:                         11.00am

Venue:                      CA117, Cairnes Building, NUI Galway "Past, Present and Future of Knowledge Management"

Professor Larry Prusak

Harvard Business School and Babson College

Larry Prusak is a leading authority on Knowledge Management and has authored six books in the area. He was the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management (IKM), a global consortium of organisations engaged in advancing the practice of knowledge management.  Larry has been studying knowledge and learning in organisations for the past two decades and has extensive experience, both within the U.S. and internationally, in helping organisations with their information and knowledge resources. These include Novartis, McKinsey, NASA, World Bank, and the United Nations. He has taught on the knowledge management executive education program at the Harvard Business School and co-directs a knowledge research program at Babson College. Further details on Professor Prusak can be found at: http://www.laurenceprusak.com/ 

                     

Department of Management

Date:                        17 th October 2008

Speaker:                   Dr Diane Vandenbroek

Title:                         “Call Centre Migrations and Dimensions of Knowledge"

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Date: 17th October, 2008

Dr Diane van den Broek, University of Sydney

'Call Centre Migrations and Dimensions of Knowledge'

Diane is Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney. Diane's research and publishing interests relate to workplace industrial relations, particularly the role of technology and cultural change within the services sector.

ICSG SEMINAR SERIES

Date:                Monday 3 ^rd November

Speaker:          Dr Ricca Edmondson

Department of Political Science & Sociology

Title:                  Wisdom & Ageing

Time:                1pm

Venue               MY124, Áras Moyola, NUI, Galway.

About the Speaker

Ricca Edmondson is a senior lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is also Chair of the Social Sciences Research Centre, and Tutor for the Second-Year Programme in the School.   She is Co-Convenor of the Research Network on Ageing in the European Sociological Association, and of the Galway Wisdom Project.

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Title                     Technophobia and Older Adults in Ireland

Date                             6 ^th October 2008, 1pm MY124, Aras Moyola 

Speaker                        Ms Mairead Hogan, Lecturer in Information Systems

                                    Dept of Accountancy & Finance, NUI, Galway

BOOK LAUNCH

Work-Life Balance: Policies and Initiatives in Irish Organisations

Authors:  Geraldine Grady, Dr Alma McCarthy, Dr Colette Darcy & Dr Melrona Kirrane, Published by Oak Tree Press

on Monday 29 ^th September 2008 at 6.00pm, Days Hotel, Dublin Road, Galway

The book was officially launched by Minister Éamon Ó Cuív, TD, Department of Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs

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Friday 19th, September 2008, 2 pm
CA111, Lecture Hall 1, Cairnes Building, NUI Galway

“Socioeconomic differences in suicide risk among adult persons between 18 to 65 years old in Denmark: A population based longitudinal study”
 
Antonio Rodriguez    
Dr. Antonio Rodriguez is Professor of economics in Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain

PHD forum meetings

The 4th PhD Forum took place in Room 118 from 11 to 12:30 on Friday, September 19th, and included a talk by Prof. Michael Newman of the Manchester Accounting and Finance Group, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, U.K. http://www.nuigalway.ie/cairnes/documents/review_dialogofisjpaper.doc

http://www.cairnes.nuigalway.ie/documents/inforgqualint2007.pdf

http://www.cairnes.nuigalway.ie/documents/isj_sic_finalonline_early_doc.pdf

The second PhD Forum took place on Friday, July 18th at 10:00am in Cairnes Room 118. This session involved a panel of 6 NUIG staff who have recently completed their own PhD research. Rather than cover the usual “10 steps to a PhD” seminar, the purpose of this session panel is to learn from the panelists’ actual experiences of completing a PhD (what went well, what problems and challenges arose, etc.).

FIRST PHD Forum: 

A new ’PhD Forum’ has been set up, which comprises series of talks approximately every 4 – 6 weeks. The purpose of the forum is to provide an avenue for doctoral students to get additional information about all aspects of the PhD process. The format will usually comprise of a 60 to 90 minute talk/workshop/panel from invited speakers and will be followed by short PhD presentations. Students will present on a voluntary basis. The first talk was given by Prof. Brian Fitzgerald from the University of Limerick (see attached poster). Future talks/workshops will focus on how to prepare for the viva voce, writing strategies, funding applications etc. However, we would encourage our PhD students here in CISC to suggest topics for future discussion in this forum. 2 May 2008:   First presentation: What is a PhD?

TAX RESEARCH NETWORK - 17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

On behalf of the Tax Research Network (TRN) and the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Public Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), the 2008 TRN Conference was held at NUIG on 4-5 September 08. 

Any queries can be directed via the ’contact us’ section of this website or by emailing the conference organiser, Emer Mulligan directly at emer.mulligannuigalway.ie.  

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Department of Management

Date:                        12 ^th September 2008

Speaker                   Professors Randall Schuler and Susan Jackson, Rutgers University

Title:                        “Global Realities and Trends: Implications for International Human Resource Management"

Randall Schuler is Professor II, Human Resource International Management; past irector MHRM Program, and Founder Centre for Global Strategic Human Resource Management at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. He has written many articles on the topics of strategic human resource management and business strategies, human resource management and total quality management, and international human resource management. His focus in these articles is how firms can systematically link the management of their human resources with the strategic needs of the business. His articles have appeared in European Management Journal, Organizational Dynamics, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Human Resource Management, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. He is past editor of the Human Resource Planning Society’s journal, Human Resource Planning. He also served on the board of directors of the HRPS, a society of senior human resource planning executives.

Susan E. Jackson is Professor or Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Her primary areas of expertise are the strategic management of human resources and organizational behavior; special interests include managing team effectiveness, workforce diversity, and the design of human resource management systems to support learning and innovation. She has authored or co-authored over 100 articles and several books on these and related topics.  Professor Jackson has held numerous positions in professional societies. In the Academy of Management, she has served as a member of the Human Resources Division's Executive Committee; Editor of the Academy of Management Review, President of the Academy of Management's Division of Organizational Behavior; as a member of the Academy of Management's Board of Governors. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Professor Jackson's consulting activities have included organizations such as General Electric, American Express, Merrill Lynch, the University of California and the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.

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Economics Seminar Series

“Remittances - Impact on a small open economy” Dennis Jansen
 
Friday 12th, September, 2 - 4pm
CA111, Lecture Hall 1, Cairnes Building, NUI Galway
 
Abstract

We study the impact of remittances on a small open economy using a stochastic limited participation model with a cash in advance constraint and costly adjustment of cash holdings.  We examine the impact of remittances on the steady states, and the dynamic impact of changes in remittances on the path of various economic aggregates.  We find that an increase in remittances increases consumption and reduces work hours, raising household welfare but also reducing aggregate output.  We then tract the dynamic impact of remittances on the economy.

Dr. Jansen is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA.

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“Monetary Union and Financial Integration in Europe” Philip Lane

Monday 15th, September, 4 pm
AC214, Concourse, NUI Galway
 
Dr. Philip R. Lane is Professor of International Macroeconomics and Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies in Trinity College, Dublin.

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ICSG SEMINAR

24-25 July 2008

Politics and Public Policies in Ageing Societies: Establishing a New Research Field
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (MPIFG)

Friday 20 June 2008 1pm BS116, Cairnes Building
'It's All About Care: The Role of Informatics in Telehomecare'
Dr. Anthony Glascock, Professor of Anthropology, Drexel University, Philadelphia

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The 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) is the largest and most prestigious Information Systems (IS) Conference in Europe, Galway 9 - 11 June 2008

The Business Information Systems group at the J.E. Cairnes Graduate School of Business & Public Policy at National University of Ireland, Galway is proud to organise and host the 16th European Conference on Information Systems in 2008.

The Business Information Systems group at NUI Galway comprises of 12 permanent staff, with active research in Innovation, Knowledge Management, Systems Development, Decision Support, e-Government, Interaction Design, e-Commerce Strategy, Systems Analysis, Datamining, e-learning and other topics.

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CISC INFORMATION SESSION

Dipti Pandya, Director of the Irish Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences, will participate in an information session hosted by CISC this coming Monday, 12 May from 11.30-12.30 in Lecture Room BS116A in the Cairnes Business School.  Ms Pandya will be joined by Dr Willie Golden of CISC (Chair) and Martha Shaughnessy and Fiona Burns of the Research Office.   This overview of current and future schemes will include a question and answer session. 

For further information on IRCHSS and its funding schemes please see http://www.irchss.ie/

seminar at the irish centre for social gerontology:

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Reflecting on the expected and unexpected outcomes of research on aging

Speaker: Professor Ronnie Frankenberg, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Keele 

Date: 28th April 2008 in BS116

seminar at the irish centre for social gerontology: An exploratory analysis of the quality of older people’s care homes in England: 2002-2005

Speaker: Prof. Ciaran O'Neill, Professor of Oral Health Research, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queens University, Belfast

Date: Monday 21 ^st April 2008 at 1pm

Venue: BS116 – Cairnes Building, NUI Galway

International Research Seminar - Department of Management

Date:      18th April 2008

Speaker: Professor Paul Edwards, University of Warwick

Title:       Employment Practices of Multinational Companies: Results from a Representative Survey

Time:      12-2pm

Venue:     Lecture Hall 3 (SA005) St. Anthony's, NUI Galway 

31st Countess Markievicz Memorial Lecture: 'Working without rights: politics, power and globalisation'

Room:       BS118 Lecture Theatre, Cairnes Business School

Date:         Thursday, 17 April 2008

Time:         5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. 

Speaker:    Professor Brian Towers, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; Founding and Consulting Editor Industrial Relations Journal; and Senior ACAS Arbitrator  

Sponsored by CIPD Ireland

cisc international s peakers programme

Title:       The Strategy Director in the UK 'eminence grise' or court jester?

Room:     BS116, Cairnes Business School

Date:       11th April 2008 11am - 1pm

Speaker: Prof. John Kelly, Birkbeck College

Irish Centre for Social Geronotology Seminar Series

Date: 25th February 2008 at 1pm - Venue: MY124 Áras Moyola

Title: ' Care Full Deliberation: enabling frail older people to influence health and social care'

Speaker: Professor Marian Barnes, Professor of Social Policy, University of Brighton

Date: 11th February 2008 at 1pm - Venue: MY124 Áras Moyola

Title: 'Conversations with Older People: Recordings and Reflections from Clare'

Speaker: Mary Owens, Independant Radio Producer

Date: 8th February 2008

Venue BS116 Cairnes Gradauate School of Business and Public Policy

Title: Context-bound Configurations of Corporate HR Functions in Multinational Corporations.

Speaker: Dr. Elaine Farndale, Tilburg University

Department of Economics Seminar

Date: Friday 8th February at 2.00pm in Lecture Hall I, St. Anthony's. 

Speaker: Dr. Alan Barrett, Economics and Social Research Institute (ESRI), will speak at the Dept of Economics Seminar on 

Title: "Are Ireland's Immigrants Integrating into its Labour Market?" 

Hewlett-Packard Prize

The Hewlett-Packard Prize in Systems Analysis for 2006/2007 was awarded to Lorraine O’Brien.  This prize is awarded to the student who attains the best overall result in the Higher Diploma in Systems Analysis.  Lorraine graduated with first class honours and achieved the highest mark in the history of this prize.  Prior to taking up a place on the Higher Diploma in Systems Analysis, Lorraine graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (International) degree from NUI Galway.  She is now working as an Enterprise Business Architect with AIB in Dublin.

J.E. Cairnes: regarded internationally as one of the outstanding political economists of his age

John Elliott Cairnes (1823-75) is arguably the most distinguished economist Ireland has produced. During the 1860s, he was Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at Queen's College Galway. In the course of his academic career, he established a distinguished international reputation and at the time of his death, he was regarded as one of the outstanding political economists of his age.

Born in Co. Louth, J.E. Cairnes was appointed Whately Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin in 1856. In 1859, he was appointed Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at Queen’s College Galway, a position he held until 1870, which represented his most extended academic appointment. He was later invited to accept the position of Professor of Political Economy at University College London.

Cairnes was the first full-time academic economist in Ireland or Britain and a champion of the emerging Irish universities. An orthodox economist, Cairnes made many very significant contributions to the development of economic theory and his theoretical works were highly regarded both by his peers and, at a later date, by historians of economic thought. He also wrote about many issues of economic policy, including the gold question, while his publications on the Irish land question examined the rights of private property and the status of contract.

Arguably, the most politically influential of all Cairnes’ work was The Slave Power (1862), which set out to show that the course of history is largely determined by "the action of economic causes". The Slave Power provided a powerful economic critique of the slave-based economy of the Southern States and had a major influence on English liberal opinion in favour of the Northern States.

The contribution of J.E.Cairnes to economics is recognised as being unique and very significant. Charles Darwin and Karl Marx both acknowledged being influenced by his work and it is the respect garnered from his peers, most notably John Stuart Mill, that is the best indication of the significance of Cairnes’ contributions.

At the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Public Policy, we take our inspiration from Cairnes’ remarkable intellect, from his correspondence and publications, which were recognised internationally as outstanding pieces of scholarship, and from his willingness to challenge his students and colleagues alike to engage in innovative, intellectual research, debate and discussion.

    

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