Dr Aidan Kane Department of Economics J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics NUI Galway IRELAND aidan.kane@nuigalway.ie Tel: +353 (0)91-49 2530 or ext. 2530 (internal)

New!


• Global economic crisis and Ireland: briefing for economics students
  details of an event in NUI Galway Saturday 11th October 2008.

• Research papers, presentations, newspaper articles, etc.

• Current (2008/2009) teaching:
  • Semester I:
    • EC301 Irish Economy
    • EC415 Research Paper I
  • Semester II:
    • EC233 Research Methods in Economics
    • EC378 Economics of Technological Change
    • EC416 Research Paper II
    • EC537 Economics of Innovation
  • Generic materials for Student Research Projects in Economics

• Archived Teaching materials
  (mainly 1998-2000 stuff on intermediate macro, introductory math econ, and Irish economy)

Welcome to my personal web site.

I'm a lecturer in the Department of Economics at NUI Galway (since 1994).

Before that, I was an undergrad, then a postgrad, at Trinity College, Dublin (PhD 1996).

From 2002 to 2006 I was Director of CISC, the Centre for Innovation & Structural Change, also at NUI Galway.

In addition to teaching, (including research supervision) and research, my main administrative duties arise as director of the Higher Diploma in Economic Science taught postgrad programme in the Department of Economics within the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway.

My principal research interests are:

• Political economy aspects of the economics of innovation
• Irish historical (early 20th century) public finances data series
• The political economy of fiscal policy and property rights