Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer/Autumn, 2003 by Subject "Ireland"

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    • How competitive is Irish manufacturing? 

      Cerra, Valerie; Soikkeli, Jarkko; Saxena, Sweta C. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2003)
      Ireland experienced significant competitiveness gains in the 1990s on the basis of the standard manufacturing unit labour cost-based measure of the real effective exchange rate. A few sectors mostly dominated by multinational ...

    • The exchange rate as an adjustment mechanism: a structural VAR approach to the case of Ireland 

      Hodson, Dermot (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2003)
      Ireland?s participation in stage three of Economic and Monetary Union precludes exchange rate adjustment in response to asymmetric shocks. A Structural VAR model is used to decompose the effects of asymmetric supply, demand ...