Browsing Economic and Social Review by Author "FitzGerald, John D."

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  • Comment on "Dangers for Ireland of an EMU without the UK: some calibration results" by Frank Barry 

    FitzGerald, John D.; Barry, Frank (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)
    In the October 1997 issue of this journal Barry set out a simple model of the Irish economy. The model was designed to quantify the possible effects on Ireland of sterling weakness, where Ireland is a member of the EMU and ...

  • "Dangers for Ireland of an EMU without the UK": a reply to John FitzGerald 

    Barry, Frank; FitzGerald, John D. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)
    In his comment on my 1997 paper John FitzGerald (JFG) makes the following points: (i) While the ESRI study on EMU, henceforth ESRI (1996), found no evidence of my hypothesis of downward nominal wage rigidity, this could ...

  • Real wage convergence in an open labour market 

    Curtis, John; FitzGerald, John D. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)
    This paper looks at how the Irish experience of integration has affected the labour market, bringing about convergence in labour costs between Ireland and the UK. A model of this process is developed and estimated which ...