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03/11/2026

Department of Economics Seminar Series | Friday, 6 November

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Lamis Saleh from the University of Oxford to Maynooth University as part of our Department of Economics Seminar Series.

Dr Saleh will present her Paper: “Introducing Contested Cross-Border Spaces: A Subnational Dataset of Conflict-affected Territory Centered on International Borders, 1989–2025”. For further details about the seminar and speaker, visit:
https://lnkd.in/dGEFSfmD

We look forward to welcoming colleagues, students, and guests to what promises to be a fascinating discussion.

31/10/2026

👏 Congratulations to Hudayfe Osman Daror, one of our PhD scholars in the Department of Economics, Maynooth University, on receiving a John and Pat Hume Scholarship Award.

Hudayfe was recognised, alongside fellow award recipients, at the Graduate Research Academy Awards Ceremony in Renehan Hall on 22 October 2026, celebrating excellence and achievement in postgraduate research.

His supervisor, Dr. Bruno Morando, joins the Department in congratulating Hudayfe on this significant accomplishment and wishes him every success with his doctoral studies.

🎓 Interested in a career in economic research, academia, or policy? A PhD in Economics at Maynooth University offers expert supervision, a supportive research environment, and opportunities to contribute to impactful research. https://lnkd.in/eDH3dz9C

29/10/2026

🎓 Celebrating the MSc Economics Class of 2026!

We were thrilled to catch up with some of our MSc Economics graduates this week.

Congratulations to all our graduates on this incredible achievement. We are immensely proud of everything you have accomplished during your time at Maynooth University and look forward to seeing the impact you will make in the years ahead.

Wishing you every success in your future careers and studies!

23/10/2026

Thank you Dr Andreas Beerli for speaking today at our Seminar Series in Department of Economics.

📢 Our Friday Seminar Series will return in 2 weeks time on Friday 6th November when we will welcome Dr. Lamis Saleh from University of Oxford.

We hope you can join us then.

19/10/2026

Economics Society Pub Quiz in O'Neill's at 7pm, Thursday 22nd Oct

🏆€50 cash prize

🏆 Bottle of w**e (alternative available if you don’t drink)

🏆 Small prizes given every round

Rounds include: economics questions & general knowledge & more 🎉🥳

🫶🏻‼️

16/10/2026

Department of Economics Seminar Series | Friday 23 October

On Friday 23rd October we welcome Dr Andreas Beerli, from the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich.

Title: The right to be heard: an RCT on economizing procedural justice

Abstract: The right to be heard – Audi Alteram Partem – is a fundamental principle underlying most legal systems and constitutes a basic human right. Legal scholars argue that the right to be heard is essential for the rule of law because it helps achieving truth and legitimizes judicial sentencing. On the other hand, hearings are labor and time intensive, leading to an overloaded criminal justice system, particularly for mass crimes. We evaluate the importance of hearings in the context of a large-scale reform of the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code, which delegated sentencing power from courts to the prosecutors through the means of penal orders. As a consequence of the reform, prosecutors sentence offenders by sending them a penal order letter that is solely based on police reports in roughly 90% of all criminal proceedings, de facto removing the defendants‘ right of being heard. We conducted a field experiment in collaboration with a public prosecution office in Switzerland and randomly invited defendants to participate in a prosecutorial hearing, allowing us to investigate the causal effect of hearings on prosecutorial sentencing, perceptions of procedural fairness, and recidivism.

Join us on Friday afternoons as we welcome guest speakers from far and wide, for presentations on a variety of interesting topics. The schedule of semester 1 seminars can be found at https://buff.ly/Mgi60vk

We look forward to seeing you there.

09/10/2026

Thank you Dr Vasilisa Werner for speaking today at our Seminar Series in Department of Economics, MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY

📢 Our Friday Seminar Series will return in 2 weeks time on Friday 23rd October when we will welcome Dr Angelo Lorenti from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

07/10/2026

Reminder: Department of Economics Seminar Series | Friday 9 October

On Friday 9th October we welcome Dr Vasilisa Werner, University of Galway.
Title: Destructive Communication (with Maximilian Andres)

Abstract
Does communication always promote socially efficient behavior? We challenge this common proposition by showing that communication becomes destructive in polarized contexts. In an online experiment, we investigate what happens when participants who fundamentally disagree communicate. We exogenously vary the degree of polarization and the participants’ ability to communicate. When participants are sufficiently polarized, communication no longer improves trust and significantly reduces trustworthiness. Using natural language processing and supervised machine learning, we document that a substantial fraction of participants focus their communication on being polarized, leading to a destructive effect on both trust and trustworthiness. Our findings challenge the universality of contact theory, highlighting that communication may backfire in settings where parties hold opposing views.

Join us on Friday afternoons as we welcome guest speakers from far and wide, for presentations on a variety of interesting topics. The schedule of semester 1 seminars can be found at https://buff.ly/Mgi60vk

We look forward to seeing you there.

05/10/2026

🎉 Celebrating Excellence in Economics at Maynooth University 🎉

The Department of Economics was delighted to welcome our award-winning students and their families to Rhetoric House at Maynooth University on Friday, 2 October, to celebrate their outstanding achievements in Economics during the 2025/26 academic year.

These awards recognise exceptional academic performance across our Economics programmes. We are incredibly proud of all our prize recipients and their dedication, hard work, and commitment to excellence.

Some of our award-winning students are continuing their academic journeys in their undergraduate studies in Economics and with their MSc in Economics (https://lnkd.in/ebhF4AEZ) and the others have already begun exciting new careers following graduation, and we wish them every success in their future endeavours.

Professor David Cuberes had the pleasure of presenting the prizes, recognising the remarkable accomplishments of our students.

We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our valued sponsors for their longstanding support of academic excellence within the Department of Economics: Séamus Lafferty, Goodbody, The Citco Group Limited, and Professor Emeritus Paddy Geary. Their generosity and commitment continue to make an important contribution to recognising and rewarding student achievement.

Our prize categories and winners are as follows:

🏆 Goodbody Prize for Best Economics Student, 1st year BA Economics (Awarded to Jessica Keogh)
🏆 Lafferty Prize for Best BA International Economics Student,1st year BA International Economics (Awarded to Kateryna Abuladze)
🏆 Citco Prize for Best BSc Economics Student, 1st year BSc Economics (Awarded to Cara O’Toole)
🏆 Goodbody Prize for Best BA Arts Economics Student, 2nd year BA Economics (Awarded to Taras Radov)
🏆 Citco Prize for Best BSc Economics Student, 2nd year BSc Economics (Awarded to Dylan Maguire)
🏆 Lafferty Prize for Best BA International Economics Student, 2nd year BA International Economics (Awarded to Aran Cavanagh)
🏆 Denis Conniffe Prize, For Best Performance in Final Year Econometrics (Awarded to Ailbhe Geelan)
🏆 Citco Prize for Best BSc Economics Student, Final Year BSc Economics (Awarded to Harry Power)
🏆 Goodbody Prize for Best BA Arts Economics Student, Final Year BA Economics (Awarded to Joshua Reynolds)
🏆 Paddy Geary Best Student Prize, MSc Economics (Awarded to Conor McEvoy)

Congratulations once again to all of our award winners. We look forward to following your future successes! 👏

02/10/2026

Thank you Dr Alexander Yarkin for speaking today at our Seminar Series in The Department of Economics.

📢 Friday Seminar Series | Next Week's Speaker

We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Vasilisa Werner to the Department of Economics' Seminar Series next week on Friday 9th October.

Paper Title: Destructive Communication (with Maximilian Andres)

Abstract
Does communication always promote socially efficient behavior? We challenge this common proposition by showing that communication becomes destructive in polarized contexts. In an online experiment, we investigate what happens when participants who fundamentally disagree communicate. We exogenously vary the degree of polarization and the participants’ ability to communicate. When participants are sufficiently polarized, communication no longer improves trust and significantly reduces trustworthiness. Using natural language processing and supervised machine learning, we document that a substantial fraction of participants focus their communication on being polarized, leading to a destructive effect on both trust and trustworthiness. Our findings challenge the universality of contact theory, highlighting that communication may backfire in settings where parties hold opposing views.

All are welcome to attend.

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