New evidence is presented on the degree of aggregate and sectoral labour productivity convergence among eleven EU countries between 1970 and 1990.

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the recently constructed survey based input-output table for Cork and Kerry was used to measure the impact of Cork Airport on its catchment area in 1995. The motivation for the paper is to show that survey based regional input-output models are an...

Despite the theoretical relationships proposed regarding exports and output, recent empirical research has found no conclusive support for a causal relationship between exports and output. This paper examines the causal relationship between exports and output using Irish data.

Academic research in the U.S. and more recently in the U.K. and Sweden, has highlighted punlic capital as a significant growth determinant. Pul\blic capital, it is argued, has a positive effect on private sector output, productivity and capital formation. However, controversy surrounds the...

This paper will show that in the presence of real uncertainty an increase in the perfectly anticipated growth rate of the money supply will cause an increase in both expected inflation and inflation uncertainty due to what is termed amplification effects.