Browsing by Subject "European Monetary Union"

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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 ...

    • The Constitutional Boundaries of European Fiscal Federalism: A Study of Public Finance Governance in the European Economic and Monetary Union 

      Gordon, Brady
      The first principal task of this research undertaking is to identify the constitutional boundaries of fiscal federalism that are integral to the stability of the European Union legal order as a whole. The second principal ...

    • "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 ...

    • Dangers for Ireland of an EMU without the UK: some calibration results 

      Barry, Frank (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1997)
      This paper presents a small-open-economy model calibrated to Irish data. The model can be used for many purposes. It is applied here to the EMU debate. It comes close to replicating the employment effects of sterling ...

    • Economic adjustment within EMU: Ireland?s experience 

      MacCoille, Conall; McCoy, Daniel (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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. ...

    • EMU and Ireland's sterling trade 

      Bannon, Seamus (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)
      Trade with the UK is one of the oldest Irish economic policy issues. It remains highly topical today. When Ireland, on joining the EMS in 1979, broke the currency link with Sterling there were fears of negative implications ...

    • Ireland in EMU: More Shocks, Less Insulation? 

      HONOHAN, PATRICK; LEDDIN, ANTHONY (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 in EMU: more shocks, less insulation? 

      Honohan, Patrick; Leddin, Anthony J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)
      Despite anchoring the Irish monetary system to a common zone-wide exchange rate and interest rate, EMU has triggered sizeable exchange rate and especially interest rate shocks to the Irish economy (albeit not appreciably ...

    • Spain [stet] accession to the EMU: a long and hilly road 

      Balmaseda, Manuel; Sebastian, Miguel; Tello, Petry (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)
      Europe has been the driving force of economic policy in Spain over the last four decades and the key factor behind the modernisation and globalisation of the Spanish Economy. Being a founding member of the Economic and ...

    • The effects of EMU on the Finnish economy: some early conjectures 

      Tarkka, Juha (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)
      This paper analyses the convergence of the Finnish economy to the monetary policy regime of the EMU. We review the expectations on the effects of EMU membership which prevailed before the union was established, and compare ...