Ireland has been taken to be an exemplary case of successful growth-promoting fiscal retrenchment, not once but twice …-ECB-IMF loan conditions. This paper argues that many of the apparent lessons drawn from Ireland’s experience turn out to be more … complex and even misplaced upon closer inspection. Ireland was never an instance of ‘expansionary fiscal contraction’ in the …

through the experiences of Spain and Ireland. …

This paper adopts a new analytical approach to explaining choices in fiscal politics in Ireland and Spain between 2008 … the crisis: Ireland adopted an orthodox deficit-reduction strategy, while Spain implemented a ‘heterodox’ stimulus fiscal … package. Yet by mid-2010, Spain’s fiscal stance had converged with Ireland’s, as the wider European crisis deepened and the …

. The government is required to formulate and implement extremely tough choices, particularly since Ireland entered an EU …

This paper undertakes a structured, focused case-study comparison of housing bubbles in Ireland and Spain, based on the …