Housing, cities, history. Often at the same time. Professor @tcdeconomics, Co-Director @ceph_ie. Dad of 3, husband of 1. Soccer/rugby fan.
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18 Jan 2021
My online course on the Economics of the Property Market is back and we're looking forward to having lots of you on it in 2021! See link (and next tweet) for more details - and if you sign up, the discount code twtr2021 will get you a reduced rate...
tcd.ie/Economics/CPD/
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Apr 7
Podcast time.
Here's the first of a three part series on housing. 1. where the irish housing crisis is now, 2. how did we get here and 3. how do we fix it with the brilliant @ronanlyons
Hope you enjoy it.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Ireland is not unique in Europe when it comes to failing its younger adults on housing. It's just one of the more extreme cases. My latest piece for The Currency drawing on cross-country research I contributed to for @eurofound.
thecurrency.news/articles/21…
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Jan 22
My online course, The Economics of the Property Market, is back! Registration now live for March 2 start. Across 4 sessions, you'll learn about the core economics needed, supply and demand for housing & the principles for good policy. More here...
tcd.ie/economics/programmes/…
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Jan 2
These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics & #SpatialEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2025, continuing with a tradition started in 2018 (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):
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22 Dec 2025
Interesting correlation between the top five in the safety rankings and top five in the migration rankings! (I'd say "don't tell the anti-migration brigade" but I suspect they're happily immune from facts on this anyway.)
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17 Dec 2025
And amazingly (to Irish eyes), not held up because of an Environmental Impact Assessment...
17 Dec 2025
Coolest underground station in the world?
Rome has just opened the new Line C station “Colosseo”, under Fori Imperiali and Altare della Patria.
It looks like a museum. 🇮🇹
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15 Dec 2025
Third legal challenge against 402 apartments in Dublin. The practical impact of repeated legal challenges is to make construction on these sites commercially unviable. Many developers can't service debts on stalled sites indefinitely & sell them off. irishtimes.com/crime-law/cou…
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13 Dec 2025
In no way representative, I know, but out of curiosity, would you support a congestion charge if introduced between the canals in Dublin?
(Just in principle here - obviously yes, lots of details to be worked out.)
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Yes (live in Dublin)
22%
No (live in Dublin)
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Yes (not in Dublin)
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No (not in Dublin)
388 votes • Final results
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3 Dec 2025
If you're interested in a PhD in Economics at Trinity, worth noting the deadlines for funding below.
Our PhD programme is now taken applications for its Sept 2026 intake!
🚨 The deadline for funding consideration is 15th January 2026 🚨
Past students have found their first appointment in institutions like @PSEinfo, @ESRIDublin, @centralbank_ie and many more!
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2 Dec 2025
What can we learn from places that actually build metros (and trams) - Denmark, France, Portugal and Spain, for example - about how to reform the process of building infrastructure (and housing) in Ireland? My long read here...
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25 Nov 2025
As recently as yesterday, a "hot take" doing the rounds was arguing that @collision was crazy and there's nothing wrong with Ireland's ability to do stuff.
And when this is (finally) built, those living near the terminus will likely see the biggest upswing in their home value.
A group of residents from Ranelagh in south Dublin have begun a legal challenge against the planned metro rail line for the capital
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There is no version of the present or future where 30,000 homes per year in Ireland is 'a lot' or even 'enough'. Not even if you cut migration to the country to zero and starved basic services of the people they need to stay running.
13 Nov 2025
Ireland is genuinely building a lot of homes right now - 30k per annum
However; population growth is so out of control we need to build about 70k which is the same as the Netherlands- a country 4x our size……
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For those more graphically minded and/or in need of more data to back that statement up - even with zero migration, the completion rate should be something like 2.5%-3%.
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Meanwhile the housing deficit continues to grow...
10 Nov 2025
Brent geese put paid to 580 new Dublin apartments irishtimes.com/business/2025…
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5 Nov 2025
After a gap of nearly a decade (surely not!), I'm back at @kilkenomics this weekend. And thrilled to be sharing the stage with both @Noahpinion on 'After Globalisation' and @peterfrankopan on 'The New Silk Roads'... Hope to see you there!
kilkenomics.com/pages/ronan-…
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30 Oct 2025
My theory that the 536 volcanic winter made the modern world continues to gather pace...
(Without 536, plausibly no Islam and no Vikings/Normans!)
30 Oct 2025
Seems that the 536 Volcanic Winter & Plague of Justinian wrecked the East Balts badly enough that the Slavs were able to migrate north from Middle Dnieper to Lakes Peipus & Ilmen, absorbing the survivors.
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23 Oct 2025
Is there a way for #NewYorkCity to reform its property taxes to make the system both fairer and more efficient? Check out my latest #Skynomics Blog post with @ronanlyons.
buildingtheskyline.org/lvt-n…
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22 Oct 2025
Who in NYC would pay more in property tax and who would pay less, if the city switched to 'the fairest of them all'? Something for those in the Big Apple to mull as they head to the polls...
22 Oct 2025
Gotham’s current real estate tax system is widely considered unfair and inefficient. Can the City switch to a Land Value Tax to increase fairness and to stimulate economic growth? Check out my latest #Skynomics Blog post with @ronanlyons
buildingtheskyline.org/lvt-n…
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