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What Has Happened to Marginal Tax Rates?
(ESRI, 2011)
As the economy boomed in the early 2000s, income tax rates were reduced, tax credits were increased and the standard rate band was widened. With the onset of the crisis in 2007-2008, and the collapse of revenues from capital ...
Cross-Border Banking in Europe: Implications for Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policies
(Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2011)
Understanding the role of banks in cross-border finance has become an urgent
priority. Cross-border banks have played a central role in the dynamics of the
global crisis of 2007-2009. First, European banks had a ...
Restoring Credibility in Policy Making in Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)
This paper first considers the origins of the Irish economic crisis. It discusses where the policy failures occurred, to what extent they were foreseeable, and how certain key financial institutions performed in the run ...
Revising Merger Guidelines: Lessons from the Irish Experience
(ESRI, 07/03/2011)
Competition authorities typically issue Merger Guidelines setting out the framework within which merger assessment is conducted. Ireland is no exception. The Competition Authority is currently in the process of revising ...
Economic Regulation: Recentralisation of Power or Improved Quality of Regulation?
(ESRI, 02/02/2011)
The October 2009 Government Statement on Economic Regulation issued proposes a number of sensible reforms that are likely to improve regulatory performance in energy, airports, telecommunications, postal services and ...
The Impact of Changes in Educational Attainment on Life Expectancy in Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)
The purpose of this article is to quantify the contribution of the increasing educational attainment of the Irish population to the prospective improvement in life expectancy over the next 50 years. This analysis uses ...
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 ...
Trade Liberalisation and Climate Change: A CGE Analysis of the Impacts on Global Agriculture
(ESRI, 2011)
Based on predicted changes in the magnitude and distribution of global precipitation, temperature and river flow under the IPCC SRES A1B and A2 scenarios, this study assesses the potential impacts of climate change and CO2 ...
Social Capital and Savings Behaviour: Evidence from Vietnam
(2011-05-29)
We explore the extent to which social capital can play a role in imparting information about
the returns to saving where potential knowledge gaps and mistrust exists. Using data from
Vietnam we find strong evidence to ...
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 ...