We provide a centennial overview of the Irish economy in the one hundred years following partition and independence. A …

cannot detect a signi.cant contribution of fiscal policies in stabilizing the US economy. For instance, the 2007-2009 large …

effects of the Hartz IV reform. We calibrate the model economy to German data before the reform and then use the calibrated … model economy to simulate the effects of Hartz IV. In our baseline calibration, we find that the reform has reduced the long …