Ronan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. I research, I teach and I serve my College, discipline and wider society. When it comes to research, I am something of a quantitative archaeologist: with a combination of inspiration and dedication, and a little bit of luck from time to time, we can discover measures of things we had thought unmeasured or unmeasurable, and in so doing better understand the world around us. I'm particularly interested in how local outcomes (such as population or housing prices) are affected by bigger factors (such as trade policy).