intensifies -- Beyond 2008: coping with the crisis -- Unpacking Ireland's polity from a new institutionalist perspective …

This paper analyses Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) investment in Ireland and Iceland from other European countries … the financial crisis of 2008, European Union (EU) membership did not help Ireland attract more FDI from other EU countries …. However, once it had been hit by the crisis, Ireland attracted more FDI from other EU countries. Iceland, on the other hand …

cannot apply to Ireland and Iceland. In both cases, these nations adopted the neoliberal attitude toward banks that was … decisions. Even in our case it was a huge mistake - but it was 'affordable'. Ireland and Iceland were not so lucky, as their … Ireland had given up ist own currency in favor of what is essentially a foreign currency - the euro, which is issued by the …