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The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis finding a positive effect on heath behaviours. This study uses longitudinal data spanning the periods before, during and after the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of...
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crisis. It is clear however that Ireland's problems derive mainly from a banking bust exacerbated by weaknesses in the design … Euro's inception in 1999 up to 2007, both debt and deficit ratios in Ireland were comfortably within the Stability and … blanket liability guarantee. The banks were in reality badly insolvent, the bank guarantee has cost 40% of GDP and Ireland was …
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In this paper, I provide a selective review of Ireland's economic performance of the last 20 years, from the early days … period. I argue, based on a range of observations, that a substantial slowdown was looming for Ireland by 2007, independent … economic policy. The result was a range of policies based on an unwarranted over-optimism which left Ireland terribly exposed …
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We provide a centennial overview of the Irish economy in the one hundred years following partition and independence. A comparative perspective allows us to distinguish between those aspects of Irish policies and performance that were unique to the country, and those which mirrored developments...
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rise in price and its subsequent fall. Were this relationship to hold for Ireland, it would predict falls of real house …
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This paper reconsiders the role of macroeconomic shocks and policies in determining the Great Recession and the subsequent recovery in the US. The Great Recession was mainly caused by a large demand shock and by the ZLB on the interest rate policy. In contrast with previous findings, the...
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Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
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logistic regression is used to examine the effects of parental unemployment on weight using the Growing up in Ireland infant …
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