John Kearns

Nov 20, 2024 | irishecho.com | P.J. Cunningham |John Kearns

The first entry in the new 820-page edition of "The Letters of Seamus Heaney" is a missive to his longtime friend, novelist Seamus Deane, dated December 9, 1964. The final item is a text message that Heaney sent to his wife, Marie, nearly five decades later, on August 13, 2013, the day he died en route to a hospital for emergency surgery on a ruptured artery. It consists of two words: Noli timere. An injunction, in Latin, not to be afraid.

Nov 20, 2024 | irishecho.com | P.J. Cunningham |John Kearns

Since the November 5 election the counting process for the House of Representatives has lumbered on. At time of writing the process is almost complete. But not quite. The Associated Press, which is probably the gold standard when it comes to the vote counting process, has awarded the House to the Republicans for the next Congress sitting. Again, at time of writing, the seat allocation is 218 for the Republicans and 212 for the Democrats. The AP has another category in its count.

Nov 19, 2024 | irishecho.com | Anthony Neeson |Máirtín Ó Muilleoir |John Kearns

“We like to make memories here,” Artistic Director Maire Logue said as we crossed the street from St. John’s Theatre and Arts Centre in Listowel to the hardware store of “the literary capital of Ireland.”  We needed a prop for the Irish premiere of my play “Boann and the Well of Wisdom.”  As we swept through the store, Maire pointed out some buckets that looked too modern.  Then we found some milking buckets that would work.

Sep 9, 2024 | aei.org | Steven Kamin |Rafael A. Guerra |John Kearns |Christian Upper

By Rafael Guerra, Steven Kamin, John Kearns, Christian Upper, and Aatman VakilAbstractThis paper estimates empirical Taylor rules to analyze the recent monetary policy of the five main Latin American inflation-targeting central banks. We find that during the inflationary surge of 2021–23, monetary policy reacted more strongly and more quickly to changes in inflation than predicted by a standard linear Taylor rule, estimated on data from the pre-pandemic period.

Sep 5, 2024 | bis.org | Rafael A. Guerra |Steven Kamin |John Kearns |Christian Upper

FocusOver the past 15 years, central banks in emerging market economies (EMEs), including those in Latin America, appear to have pursued more balanced monetary policies. That is, the policies respond to deviations of both economic activity from some equilibrium level and inflation from target.