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through tariff protection and restrictions on foreign ownership, though Ireland and the UK maintained (and continue to … and deep recession in the 1950s. The genesis in the mid-1950s of Ireland's low corporation tax regime facilitated later … on exchange-rate policy and Ireland was forced to choose between irreconcilable options. The resulting difficulties can …
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Ireland's net external liability position expanded in dramatic fashion during 2008-2010, despite relatively small net … Ireland's major role as an international financial centre, such that the "core" international balance sheet remains obscure …
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Over the period 2005-2020, the Irish agri-food sector is confronted with three major policy changes: the decoupling of the single farm payment, the elimination of the dairy quota and potential multilateral trade liberalisation as part of an agreement in the Doha Development Round. This paper...
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The preholiday behaviour of equity price and return indices on the Irish Stock Exchange do nor display consistent positive pre-holiday returns. This is contrary to the majority of studies on this area, and the result is found across a number of sectoral indices. The analysis also indicates that...
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sectors for Ireland for the purpose of agri-food policy simulations. The base year for the AgriFood–SAM is 2005 and it draws … on a recently constructed 2005 SAM for Ireland (Miller et al., 2011). Its unique features include a high level of …
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This paper describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ireland for the year 2005. The SAM …
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The rise of immigration into Ireland has been accompanied by a debate on the potential objectives of immigration policy … to their counterparts in other European economies. The data suggest that Ireland's immigrant population is remarkably …
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This paper examines how foreign plants may impact on the averages wages paid by domestic plants within a host economy. The analysis, building on Aitken, Harrison and Lipsey (1996), is based on plant level panel data for the Irish manufacturing industry during the 1990s. We find that respective...
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TWe undertake a first benchmark study of economic literacy in Ireland using a panel of 700+ adults to assess the … the economic literacy of Ireland established through our representative sample with that already established through …
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This paper surveys the literature that attempts to explain what caused the Celtic Tiger boom. The suggested explanations that are covered include fiscal stabilisation, tax cuts, delayed convergence, privatisation and deregulation, strong growth in export markets, supply of labour, education, the...
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