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Seán Keyes
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- Irish transport cost-benefit analyses assume a project won't change how nearby land gets used. This discriminates against the most transformative projects, since hanging the city is the entire point of a metro.
- A progresspilling presentationIt's finally here! I gave a TED talk in April in Vancouver, and it was released online today. You can watch it here: ted.com/talks/saloni_d… I've also adapted it into an article, which was published last week: worksinprogress.co/issue/future-o…
- Why Europe can’t build tech: National markets are too fragmented. EU Inc was such a bad miss.Examining the financial and product-market frictions that constrain European firms’ to scale, from @beckerbobo, Efraim Benmelech, and Joao Monteiro nber.org/papers/w35577
- Good example of unintended consequences — tight capital rules designed to protect taxpayers from another bailout ended up pushing banks out of the market.Irish banking belongs on the economics 101 syllabus. Two lenders, no entry, no exit, and a back office still running on pen and paper. Competition is a textbook assumption, not a finding.
