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Did Bank Lending Stifle Innovation in Europe During the Great Recession?
(2019)
Using the 2008-09 Global financial crisis and the 2012 Euro area sovereign debt crisis as natural experiments, we investigate the effects of contractions in credit supply on R&D spending in a large sample of European firms. ...
Energy poverty and deprivation in Ireland
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)
This report – funded by the Community Foundation for Ireland – explores the issue
of energy poverty and deprivation in Ireland, once again to the forefront of the
policy debate given recent increases in energy prices.
Chapter ...
Estimating Historical Landfill Quantities to Predict Methane Emissions
(ESRI, 2009)
We estimate Irish historical landfill quantities from 1960 -2008 and Irish methane emissions from 1968-2006. A model is constructed in which waste generation is a function of income, price of waste disposal and, household ...
From Data to Policy Analysis: Tax-Benefit Modelling using SILC 2008
(2010)
Policy makers and the body politic have a strong interest in ensuring that the tax transfer system functions well. This common interest in policies that are efficient in achieving their objectives ? including economic ...
Central bank reforms and institutions
(IFO Institute, 2019)
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 ...
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). ...
Measuring Fiscal Stance
(2012)