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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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rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly …
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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices. While there is a break in 1979-80, when the link to...
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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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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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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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orientation. Ireland’s low corporation tax regime,however, has its origins in the export profits tax relief (EPTR) measures …
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This paper traces how the Great Depression was perceived in 1930s Ireland. Perceptions were complicated by internal … budget) fiscal expansion. Despite the tariff war with Britain triggered by the land annuities dispute, Ireland appears to …
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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1935 and 2012 using a Phillips curve approach. We find that a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices is stable over the sample period and passes a number of diagnostic tests. We also consider the importance of...
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