Browsing by Subject "Irish economy"
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Annual Business Survey of Economic Impact (ABSEI) 2017
(Department of Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, ireland, 2017) -
The behavioural characteristics of the model-80 model of the Irish economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1982)For as long as governments have had the inclination or capability to influence economic events they have based their policies on their beliefs and prejudices as to how the economy works. These beliefs and prejudices ... -
Brexit and its Impact on the Irish Economy
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Comment on "Dangers for Ireland of an EMU without the UK: some calibration results" by Frank Barry
(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 ... -
"Dangers for Ireland of an EMU without the UK": a reply to John FitzGerald
(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
(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 ... -
Dynamic factor demands in a changing economy: an Irish application
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2005)In this paper a model of dynamic factor demands is presented for the Irish economy. Total costs, labour and capital are modelled on a two-stage basis. First, a static, long-run cost function is specified which allows for ... -
Foreword by Professor Dermot McAleese on the occasion of his presidential address
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)This is a good year to be celebrating the 150th anniversary of our Society! The Irish economy continues to boom and prospects remain bright. At first many were sceptical about the Celtic Tiger (as Morgan Stanley christened ... -
Housing and Austerity: A Two-Way Street
(Royal Irish Academy, 2017)Simon Wren-Lewis’s chapter in this volume outlines a general theory of austerity. Underpinning it is a desire for policymakers – as well as the social sciences – to learn from the experience of austerity over the last ... -
International diversification and the Irish economy
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)We take an initial step in investigating the international diversification of Irish production risk. We find evidence that Ireland displays some properties associated with international risksharing. These include: high ... -
Ireland's five-part crisis, five years on : deepening reform and institutional innovation
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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 ... -
Jobless households : an exploration of the issues
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Openness and growth: an international perspective
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2001)International openness via the pursuit of liberal trade and investment policies has become one of the conventional verities of the policy advice handed out by multilateral institutions over the past two decades. Greater ... -
Profits and wages in Ireland, 1987-1996
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)A striking feature of the Irish economic resurgence since 1987 has been a major factor income shift away from labour and towards capital. (The profit share has increased from 25.1 per cent in 1987 to 34.8 per cent in 1996.) ... -
Reflections on the process of Irish economic growth
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2001)The most remarkable feature of the so-called Celtic Tiger has been the extraordinary growth in employment. In a short period, this has transformed the economy from a situation of chronic labour surplus to one with labour scarcity. -
Social housing at the crossroads : possibilities for investment, provision and cost rental
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Trade, growth and the role of demand - neoclassical and Keynesian explanations of Ireland's post war growth experience
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1985)This paper examines the nature of the trade growth relationship in post war Ireland. We consider two major theoretical approaches, the Neoclassical and the Keynesian, attempting to identify and contrast the key features ... -
US corporate tax rate cuts: Spillovers to the Irish economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)We examine spillovers to the Irish economy from US corporate income tax rate cuts and find they lead to a small but persistent increase in Irish economic output. Our analysis of the transmission channels shows that an ... -
What policy initiatives are required to develop a knowledge-based economy in Ireland?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2018)Title of Thesis: What policy initiatives are required to develop a knowledge-based economy in Ireland? Author of Thesis: Brendan Cannon, B.Sc. (Mgmt), M.B.A. Summary of Thesis: The purpose of this study was to investigate ...
