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Dr. Paul Scanlon

Assistant Professor (Economics)

 scanlop@tcd.ie

 


Research Tags

  Macroeconomics, open economy, international

Representations

Details Date
Referee, Economic and Social Review
Referee, Scottish Journal of Political Economy
External Member, Hiring Committee, UCD School of Economics 2024-2025
Discussant, Central Bank of Ireland Conference, "Macro-finance and financial stability policies" 5 December 2024
Panellist, public lecture on "The US Presidential Election" 29/9/16

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Irish Economic Association 2010 present
American Finance Association 2009 present
American Economic Association 2009 present
European Finance Association 2014 present
Paul Scanlon, A Model of Greedflation, Economics Letters, 234, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Paul Scanlon, Profits and Inflation Data, 1, Mendeley, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED  URL
Paul Scanlon, Metrics on Factor Income Risk: 1900-2000, 1, Elsevier, 2020, Dataset, PUBLISHED  URL
Scanlon P., Aggregate risk and wage dispersion, Economics Letters, 194, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Paul Scanlon, New Goods and Asset Prices, Journal of Financial Economics, 132, (3), 2019, p140 - 157, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
The Manchester School, 81, S1, (2013), 1 - 124p, George Bratsiotis, Michael Wycherley, Paul Scanlon, [eds.], 2012-13, Notes: [Editor of special edition arising from the proceedings of the Money, Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group, 2012.], Journal, PUBLISHED
  

Paul Scanlon, The Societal Impact of License Plate Formats, 2024, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Paul Scanlon, Historical Data on Consumption Components and Labour Hours, 1, Trinity College Dublin, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Paul Scanlon, A Comparison of Betting Odds, 2011-2022: France and UK, 1, TCD, 2022, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Paul Scanlon, Labor Trends: New Evidence from Patent Data, 2022, Working Paper, SUBMITTED
Paul Scanlon, Iphone Introductions and Labour Hours: A Natural Experiment, 2019, Working Paper, SUBMITTED
Paul Scanlon, Wage Inequality, Risk, and the Financial Sector, 2019, Working Paper, SUBMITTED
Paul Scanlon, Can Dynamic Goods Explain Asset Returns?, 2013, Working Paper, SUBMITTED
Paul Scanlon, Price Stability and Endogenous Productivity, 2012, Working Paper, SUBMITTED
Paul Scanlon, Home Bias and Prediction Markets: Evidence from the Racetrack, 2011, Working Paper, PRESENTED
Paul Scanlon, New Goods and International Risk Sharing, 2009, Working Paper, SUBMITTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Cheit Teaching Award, UC Berkeley 2006
Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2004
Fellowship, Yale Unversity 2001

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

My primary research focus lies in the area of macroeconomics and finance. The central theme pervading my work is the question of how the introduction of new goods affects individual decision-making, and how those decisions affect the macroeconomy. Specifically, a large component of my research addresses the questions of how new goods affect i) labour supply and ii) the decisions to consume and save. While these may seem natural questions, standard economic models focus on a single good, and abstract from the effects of new goods. As a result, current economic indicators of progress omit or fail to quantify an important aspect of economic progress. In contrast to the past, economic progress today is largely marked by the introduction of new goods, and not increasing quantities of the same goods. Incorporating new goods into standard models and price indices and examining the associated ramifications is technically challenging. Yet it opens up a broad and increasingly relevant research agenda. Significantly, my research shows that this modification of standard models leads to starkly different predictions to standard models. Moreover, the idea has broad applicability to economic dynamics and for examining incentives to work and save. As a result, I believe this work is seminal and makes a substantive contribution to the field. Moreover, since part of the work addresses longstanding puzzles in the field, I believe it has the potential to ultimately gain considerable traction. One of my publications in this area is in one of leading journals in the field of finance and I believe this validates the importance of my work. More recently, I have become interested in the sustainability of consumption behaviour across economies and how the pursuit of new products can frustrate the transition to a net zero economy.