Browsing by Subject "Inflation"
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Changes in relative consumer prices and the substitution bias of the Laspeyres price index: Ireland, 1985-2001
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)This paper shows that Irish relative consumer prices have changed significantly, 1985-2001, at the ten commodity-group level. A ?true? cost-of-living index is derived from Madden?s (1993) parameter estimates for an Almost ... -
Company tax - effective tax rates on profits
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1981)Considerable controversy surrounds the measurement of profit in company accounts. Continuous inflation has underlined some of the problems involved. Current accounting practice in the United Kingdom and Ireland also obscures ... -
Economic adjustment within EMU: Ireland?s experience
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)This paper examines the contribution of Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) type effects to inflationary pressures in Ireland. Irish productivity measures are exaggerated by foreign multinationals engaged in high value-added activities. ... -
Employment and inflation responses to an exchange rate shock in a calibrated model
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)Ireland has no ability to affect the exchange rate through interest rates following the adoption of the euro. This paper provides a theoretically transparent method for analysing the impact of an exchange rate shock on ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation is a collection of three essays in empirical macroeconomics. Chapter 1 examines the long-run effects of central bank independence on inflation. Applying a dynamic panel strategy to account for the ... -
Excess demand and investment in the United Kingdom
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)By excess demand I mean the current excess of private disposable income, after the deduction of voluntary saving, over the target- figure for the supply of consumption goods at current prices, and that piled-up demand for ... -
Exchange rate policy in a small open economy: an examination of Irish experience
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)The paper looks at Irish exchange rate policy since 1979 when the Irish Pound joined the EMS. The paper argues that a fixed exchange rate link is the optimal approach for an economy such as Ireland. As the bulk of Irish ... -
Gold and inflation(s) - A time-varying relationship
(2016)What is the relationship between the price of gold and inflation? How stable is it – over time and across measures of inflation? We examine this for three countries (the USA, the UK and Japan) - over forty years and with ... -
House prices in the measurement of inflation: an application using Irish data
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)This paper illustrates the impact on Irish inflation of including a house-price series with the current components of the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP). We construct a dynamic factor index of inflation that ... -
How useful is core inflation for forecasting headline inflation?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)The paper constructs various core inflation measures. These include various trimmed means using disaggregated data and a structural VAR estimate of core inflation for Ireland. The ability of these core inflation measures ... -
Income tax cuts and inflation in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)A two sector model of the Irish economy is used to analyse whether either temporarily or permanently deferring reductions in labour tax rates would cut inflation in the short run. If the deferral of tax cuts is seen as ... -
Inflation and money growth: evidence from a multi-country data-set
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)Using a multi-country data set strong correlation are found between average growth rates of monetary aggregates and average inflation. The correlation remains strong when countries with higher average inflation rates are ... -
Inflation in Ireland: theory and evidence
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1997)The purpose of this paper is to address some important questions surrounding the determinants of Irish inflation. As a backdrop, the international theoretical literature on inflation is selectively reviewed, with a view ... -
Lags in transmission of inflation
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)In the July 1976 issue of The Economic and Social Review, P. T. Geary presented some preliminary results on the analysis of lags in the transmission of inflation. Essentially his paper consisted of the following points. ... -
Monetary Theory of Inflation and the LBD in Transactions Technology
(2004)Classical models of inflation, utilising the transactions-based demand for money, predict that monetary policy will be ineffective in changing real variables. In response to this, the New Keynesian sticky-price models ... -
National Competitiveness and Productivity Council Bulletin 22-2 Inflation and the Competitiveness of Irish Enterprises
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National Competitiveness and Productivity Council Bulletin 23-2 : Understanding Recent Inflationary Dynamics in Ireland
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Okay Boomer... Excess Money Growth, Inflation, and Population Aging
(2022)What determines the strength of the relationship between money growth and inflation? A large literature suggests that it has weakened since the 1980s, without a definitive explanation of the cause. I explore how population ... -
Pricing to market, exchange rate changes and the transmission of inflation
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)This paper examines the short-run pass through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices in Ireland. Reflecting the importance of exchange rate expectations, we develop a model of inflation where the deviation of the UK ... -
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