CONTENTS Opening Address B Whelan Chapter 1 Budget 2000: A Macroeconomic Perspective D Duffy 2 Income Tax and Social Welfare Policies T Callan, B Nolan, J Walsh, R Nestor 3 The Role of Budgetary Policy in Social Consensus J Durkan 4 Current Perspectives on Corporate Taxation T McCarthy 5...

CONTENTS: 1 SIMULATING TRANSFER PROGRAMMES AND LABOUR SUPPLY Robert A Moffitt 2 BEHAVIOURAL MICROSIMULATION METHODS FOR POLICY ANALYSIS John Creedy and Alan Duncan 3 FAMILY LABOUR SUPPLY AND PROPOSED TAX REFORMS IN THE NETHERLANDS Arthur van Soest and Marcel Das 4 TAXES, TRANSFERS AND LABOUR...

Contents Foreword - Frances Ruane Chapter 1: Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, David Miles Chapter 2: The Stability and Growth Pact: A Fiscal Framework Whose Time Has Come?, Jim O'Leary Chapter 3: Fiscal Policy: Some Lessons from Crises of the Past, Joe Durkan Chapter 4: Restructuring...

FOREWORD Frances Ruane CHAPTER 1: TAX, WELFARE AND WORK INCENTIVES Tim Callan, Niamh Crilly, Claire Keane, John R. Walsh and Áine Ní Shúilleabháin CHAPTER 2: THE PERFORMANCE OF THE IRISH HEALTH SYSTEM IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT Michael Borowitz, Valerie Moran, Mark Pearson CHAPTER 3: THE...

The introduction of a property tax is now firmly on the policy agenda. Designing such a tax involves a series of choices which affect how the burden of the tax is distributed across households. In this paper we use SWITCH, the ESRI tax-benefit model, to explore the implications of alternative...

This paper describes a structural dynamic microsimulation model of the household that has been developed to explore behavioural responses to pensions policy counterfactuals in Ireland. The model is based upon the life-cycle theory of behaviour, which assumes that individuals make their decisions...