Paul Kilgarriff, Ph.D.

Dublin, Ireland

• Economist working in the area of financial resilience and research.
• Leading internal research and analysis of residential loan level data.
• Active member of the ECB's expert group on climate physical risks, collaborating on initiatives to assess and mitigate climate-related financial risks.
• Contribute to publication of the Financial Stability Review.
• Provide input to management in relation to housing, affordability and mortgage book.

Belval, Luxembourg

• PI on a €554k project TELE-SIM.
• Researched the local impact on teleworking on 500 European cities.
• Modelling house prices for several countries and over 500 cities.
• Linking city size effects and rent price gradients.
• Estimating commuting costs across 500 cities.
• Lead scientific contact for the department research seminar series. Contributed in receiving €30k for the series and also inviting high-profile speakers.

Paris, France

• Utilised big data to estimate risk preferences to natural disasters in Asia.
• Used web-scraping to build a large scale database of over 5 million news articles.
• Performed text mining and sentiment analysis to examine the severity of natural disasters.
• Created a methodology to allow for a fast estimate on economic damages from a natural disaster using a text mining and sentiment analysis approach.
• Future research project to examine the socio-demographics of natural disasters in the region of south Asia.

Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

• Worked as part of the planning team with a particular focus on future planning and demographics.
• Contributed to analysis examining compact growth and housing viability.
• Produced research for management on the future housing needs and demographic projections to 2040.
• Conducted a detailed analysis of service provision for 800 Irish settlements.
• Examined the spatial viability of different housing typologies.
• Produced a dashboard for the acquisitions team in relation to affordability and incomes by area.
• Contributed to internal reports and documents with a focus on hedonic prices of property.

Maynooth, Ireland

Title: "The spatial distribution of welfare in Ireland"

• Economics, geography, data analysis, GIS.
• Created economic models to examine income, inequality, housing and commuting across Ireland.
• Simulated income, housing costs and benefits at the individual and household level.
• Performed network analysis to calculate travel and journey times for 3,440 areas.

Galway, Ireland

• Result 1.1
• Microeconomics, macroeconomics, game theory, econometrics, economic thought.

Galway, Ireland

• Microeconomics, macroeconomics, game theory, econometrics, marketing.