Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer/Autumn, 2006 by Subject "Ireland"

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    • A theoretical growth model for Ireland 

      Barry, Frank; Devereux, Michael B. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)
      Ireland is distinguished by the high degree of openness of its labour market and the importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the economy. We develop a neo-classical growth model to explore the consequence of these ...

    • Ireland in EMU: more shocks, less insulation? 

      Honohan, Patrick; Leddin, Anthony J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)
      Despite anchoring the Irish monetary system to a common zone-wide exchange rate and interest rate, EMU has triggered sizeable exchange rate and especially interest rate shocks to the Irish economy (albeit not appreciably ...

    • Ireland's great depression 

      Ahearne, Alan; Kydland, Finn; Wynne, Mark A. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)
      We argue that Ireland experienced a great depression in the 1980s comparable in severity to the better known and more studied depression episodes of the interwar period. Using the business cycle accounting framework of ...

    • Macroeconomic performance and the design of public pension programmes 

      Disney, Richard (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)
      I examine the impact of the design of the Irish public pension programme on two dimensions of Ireland?s macroeconomic performance: employment and the average saving rate. Two facets of the programme might affect these ...

    • Measuring competitiveness 

      Neary, J. Peter (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)
      This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy?s cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures inspired by the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for ...