Tag: covid19
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Pandemics and Tourist Travel – Outbound considerations
There is a lot, one might even suggest a concerted, effort being made to deter Irish people from taking foreign holidays this year. The stated reason is that tourist travel might import Covid, which we want to avoid as much as possible of course. Notably the example given on not travellign abroad was related to…
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NPHET- I have questions?
In terms of dealing with economics and society, nobody and nothing can be above questioning. Sometimes those questions might be uncomfortable, sometimes the answers might be . Pulling on the Green PPE and accepting the veiews of the National Public Health Emergency Team as diktats from an omniscient power serves nobody well. We know in…
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Call for Papers : COVID19 and the nonlinear dynamics of financial markets – Special Issue of Finance Research Letters
UPDATE: We have confirmation that papers published in this Special Issue will be free to access for at least 6 months, as part of Elsevier’s response to COVID. The financial market’s response to COVID19 has demonstrated very pronounced nonlinear behaviour, phase transitions and sharp changes. Traditional finance models and approaches typically struggle to model such…
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Closing Colleges and Schools in the face of Covid-19
This is a longer version of an op-ed published in the Irish Times 10-3-20