Browsing Economics (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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International Transmission of Business Cycles
(ESRI, 2010)Increased international economic integration over the past two decades has stimulated a growing academic and policy interest in the analysis of the international transmission of business cycles. There has been renewed ... -
Internationalisation and the Innovation Activities of Services Firms
(ESRI, 19/09/2011)This paper examines the relationship between the internationalisation of firms in services and their innovation performance. We use firm?level data over the period 2004? 2006 and estimate an augmented structural model ... -
Ireland in EMU: More Shocks, Less Insulation?
(2006)Despite anchoring the Irish monetary system to a single currency, EMU has triggered sizable exchange rate and especially interest rate shocks to the Irish economy (albeit not appreciably greater than under previous regimes). ... -
Ireland's Recovery from Crisis
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Ireland's Tax Expenditure System: International Comparisons and a Reform Agenda - Studies in Public Policy No. 24
(Policy Institute, Trinity College Dublin, 2010)Tax Expenditures, also known as tax incentives or tax breaks, represent an infrequently explored and little understood area of Irish public policy. Despite this, they account for more than ?11 billion per annum in ... -
Irish and British electricity prices: what recent history implies for future prices
(2014)This paper compares retail and wholesale electricity prices in SEM, the market of the island of Ireland, and BETTA in Great Britain. Estimated wholesale costs are much lower in BETTA. We show that this is mostly because ... -
Irish and British Historical Electricity Prices and Implications for the Future
(ESRI, 10/04/2013)This paper compares retail and wholesale electricity prices in SEM, the market of the island of Ireland, and BETTA in Great Britain. Wholesale costs are much lower in BETTA. We show that this is mostly because the wholesale ... -
The Irish Economy Today: Albatross or Phoenix?
(2011)In 2001 the policy issues facing Ireland were very different than they are today. Growth had surpassed expectations and the high level of unemployment of the 1980s and early 1990s had been eliminated. Instead of ... -
Irish Education Policy for a Globalised World: A Policy for Chasing Black & White Swans.
(The Swan Group, 2009)The record decline of over 9% in Irish GDP in 2009 provides the backdrop to this important study. Government expenditure has grown rapidly in the Celtic Tiger era without much evidence of a value for money culture in any ... -
Irish Government Debt and Implied Debt Dynamics: 2011-2015
(ESRI, 06/09/2011)This article examines the debt dynamics facing the Irish State over the period 2011 to 2015. The analysis takes account of the reduction in interest rates on EU borrowing agreed at the EU Council meeting in July 2011 and ... -
Labour Market Models in the EU
(CEPS, 2011)In the European Union, the most important labour market models that have been proposed for labour market reform are flexicurity and the transitional labour market. In this position paper, we conceptualise the models of ... -
Labour Relations and Modes of Employment
(NEUJOBS, an European Research Consortium, 16/07/2013)This Policy Brief contains policy implications on labour relations and modes of employment (Work Package 6), a collaborative EU-funded research project. -
Linked in by FDI: The role of firm level relationships for knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia.
(2020)This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinationals (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms ... -
Local Warming, Local Economic Growth, and Local Change in Democratic Culture
(ESRI, 2011)In a 104-nation study we first demonstrate that cultural self-expression, individualism and democracy languish in poor countries with colder-than-temperate winters, but flourish in rich countries with such winters. Mild ... -
The long or short of it: Determinants of foreign currency exposure in external balance sheets
(Elsevier, 2009)A major focus of the recent literature on the determination of optimal portfolios in open-economy macroeconomic models has been on the role of currency movements in determining portfolio returns that may hedge various ... -
Low income renters and housing supports
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)Rental affordability challenges for low-to-moderate income groups have been well documented. Changes to housing supports in recent years, notably the rapid expansion of Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), aim to address ...