Against the background of increasing financial depth and international financial integration, not least in the EU, the trend towards analyzing financial system policy in fiscal terms is reviewed. Implicit and explicit taxation of the financial system has generated substantial ? though now...

Conventional PPP-adjusted real output measures, invaluable for making international comparisons of living standards, may greatly exaggerate the productive capacity of poor countries. The equilibrium prices of an hypothetical world of full economic integration provide an instructive basis for...

In recent papers (1993a and b) we have focused on the role of expectations in influencing Irish interest rates during the EMS period. Here we examine the role of monetary policy actions more directly, and explore the relation between interest rates, on the one hand, and actions of the monetary...

The impact of the single financial market process was expected in the peripheral countries. This report, which concentrates on Greece, Ireland and Portugal, examines the process of financial integration, It focuses on the degree to witch financial portfolios have becomes internationalized, and...

The Macroeconomic Context and Appropriate Fiscal Stance for Budget 2002: The changing macroeconomic background in which Budget 2002 must be framed is set out. The appropriate stance for budgetary policy as the economy moves towards lower growth rates are assessed including consideration of the...