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    • 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. ...
    • Measuring trends in male mortality by socio-economic group in Ireland: a note on the quality of the data 

      O'Shea, Eamon (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)
      The objective of this paper is to examine measurement issues and data problems in the analysis of trends in male mortality differentials by socio-economic group (SEG) in Ireland between 1981 and 1991. The study is based ...
    • Retail interest rate pass-through: the Irish experience 

      Bredin, Don; Fitzpatrick, Trevor; O'Reilly, Gerard (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)
      In this paper, we examine the extent to which changes in the money market interest rate are passed through to a number of retail lending rates between 1980 and 2001. In addition, we analyse the speed of adjustment of these ...