Browsing Economics (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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The Impact of Fiscal Policy on the Economy
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The Impact of Government Policy on Private Car Ownership in Ireland
(2011)We construct a model of the stock of private cars in the Republic of Ireland. The model distinguishes cars by fuel, engine size and age. The modelled car stock is built up from a long history of data on sales, and calibrated ... -
The Impact of Ireland's Recession on the Labour Market Outcomes of its Immigrants
(ESRI, 29/09/2010)In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but also in response to its decision to allow full access to its labour market when EU expansion occurred in ... -
The Incentive to Invest in Thermal Plants in the Presence of Wind Generation
(ESRI, 18/12/2012)In a deregulated market, the decision to build new thermal power plants rests with private investors and they will decide whether to invest on the basis of expected profits. This paper evaluates how such profits are affected ... -
Inequality and the Crisis: The Distributional Impact of Tax Increases and Welfare and Public Sector Pay Cuts
(2010)The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ... -
Inequality in Ireland: 1987-2019
(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2023)This report provides an in-depth analysis of wage, earnings and income trends and inequalities in Ireland over a three-decade period, spanning from 1987 to 2019. One of the significant findings of this research is the ... -
The Internal EU Electricity Market: Implications for Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)The European Union is creating a single electricity market. Like the single European market for goods and other services, if the price of electricity is lower in France than Ireland, traders will export electricity from ... -
International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies
(ETLA - The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, 01/03/2013)This paper examines the causal link between foreign investment and firm performance in six small open economies in the European Union. Specifically, using micro data for manufacturing and services over the period 2001?2009, ... -
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 ...