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In Ireland, there was a bank strike that led to a complete shut-down of the main part of the banking system from May to …
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In Ireland, there was a bank strike that led to a complete shut-down of the main part of the banking system from May to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014523779
This paper constructs annual GDP estimates for Ireland (1924-47) to join the first complete official aggregates. The … new series is deployed to revisit Ireland's economic performance in the post-independence decades. Ireland's economy grew … growing number of studies that suggest that Ireland was poorer at independence than previously believed. …
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economies. The literature emphasizes the role of monetary policy for this predictive ability. Between 1972-2018, Ireland … when Ireland was a member of the EMS (1979-1998); and third, as a member of the euro area (1999-2018). Using dynamic probit … which the Central Bank of Ireland had any discretion to set interest rates based on domestic conditions. …
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We apply insights from the political economy of secession to analyse the early years of the Irish Free State (IFS). The IFS was fortuitous in a debt settlement that enabled it to begin its existence debt free, whilst also receiving financial assistance to quell civil unrest. Yet the IFS was...
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Ireland developed one of the world's most intensive railroad networks in the second half of the 19th century. However … high-resolution geospatial data for nearly 3,400 districts to existing road and waterway networks as well as Ireland …
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This paper studies a natural experiment in macroeconomic history: the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for three months. We use synthetic control to estimate how the economy would have evolved had the strike not happened. We find that economic...
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Ireland prior to the 1979 exchange rate break with Sterling. It was argued that, as a small open economy, prices were …
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rates in Ireland from a variety of sources for the period 1933-2012. We discuss in detail how the data set is constructed …
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We apply insights from the political economy of secession to analyse the early years of the Irish Free State (IFS). The IFS was fortuitous in a debt settlement that enabled it to begin its existence debt free, whilst also receiving financial assistance to quell civil unrest. Yet the IFS was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177428