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    • Irish house prices: will the roof cave in? 

      Roche, Maurice J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      In the last few years there have been many comments made in the media about the Irish housing market boom. This paper focuses on two of these comments. The first comment is that some economists have suggested that a ...
    • Testing the permanent income hypothesis: the Irish evidence 

      Roche, Maurice J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      We investigate whether the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) is consistent with Irish data and find that it holds for about 50 per cent of consumers. We hypothesise that worsening borrowing conditions lead agents to consume ...