exercise in fiscal rectitude of the 1980s and focusing on its two most extreme cases, Denmark and Ireland. We find that at …

In terms of macroeconomic performance, the Eurozone’s first decade is a story of successful inflation-targeting by the … not happen in the Eurozone appears to be related to the presence of non-rational wage-setters in a number of member …

rates in Ireland from a variety of sources for the period 1933-2012. We discuss in detail how the data set is constructed …

rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly …

of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in … both urban and rural Ireland. Further analysis of the so-called `replacement' problem also produces results consistent with …

The paper reviews the economic performance of the Republic of Ireland since 1945. Its focus is comparative: Ireland … is found wanting. The comparison confirms that the 1950s were a particularly bleak decade for Ireland but, more … surprisingly, Ireland also performed less well than predicted by convergence criteria in both 1960-73 and 1973-88. The paper then …

This paper explores the sources of Ireland’s relative growth performance. Using panel data for a sample of OECD … estimates of the immediate sources of Ireland’s growth differential vis-à-vis the OECD average and the other ‘cohesion …’ countries of the EU. While we find that fiscal consolidation has contributed significantly to Ireland’s improved performance, we …