enforcers - on corruption, drug dealing, and other forms of sequential, bilateral, illegal trade. We find that when not properly …

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries …

the financial crisis 2008-09 was significantly higher for firms with a weak bank than for comparable firms with a sound … bank. Second, non-defaulting firms with a weak bank did not have a lower return on assets during the financial crisis 2008 …-09 than comparable firms with a sound bank. Taken together, these results may indicate the presence of heterogeneous effects …

estimated New Keynesian model with a bank. A key dimension of policy in the crisis was massive government support for banks … bank asset losses, of government support for banks, and other fiscal stimulus measures, in the EA. Our results suggest that …

systematically related to its level of economic development. Ireland is an interesting test case because of the importance of inward … important differences between Ireland's outward FDI and the bulk of FDI occurring in the world economy however. Ireland …

Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility …