...Kjell Hausken; Jonathan W. Welburn Purpose The article develops a model to interpret the 2010–2018 financial crisis in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus, and the loan programs from the IL (International Lender; i.e. the European Union, the European Commission, and the International...

...Lisa Noonan; Eoin O'Leary; Justin Doran Purpose This paper analyses the impact of institutional proximity, cognitive proximity and geographical proximity (in the form of agglomeration economies) on the firm-level productivity of foreign-owned firms in Ireland. The analysis of agglomeration...

.... Design/methodology/approach – The author uses a dynamic general equilibrium closed economy model to compute the dynamic Laffer curves for Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain for different class of taxes. The general equilibrium effects of the interaction of labor tax, consumption tax and capital tax...

.... In Ireland, a considerable part of public capital expenditure has always been devoted to providing productive and social infrastructure[ 2 ]. This can be seen from Table I which shows trends in public investment for various periods. 1. Will these transfers translate themselves into a permanent...

...Ella Kavanagh Reveals that Ireland has experienced six major changes in exchange rate regimes over the period 1797 to today. Provides a historical perspective on this experience. Indicates that Irish nominal variables have been affected by the exchange rate regime and that membership of exchange...

... of Ireland; second, the dominance of Dublin as the major centre of Irish cultural and urban development (Power, 1993). In 1800 most families in rural Ireland lived in single‐room, mud and turf huts, while Ireland’s wealthy landowners were situated in Dublin. A feature that began to emerge, however...

... of changes in Ireland’s sectoral employment structure to labour productivity convergence between Ireland and the EU average from 1970‐1990. Identifies the variation in Irish sectoral employment distribution over time as a significant source of labour productivity convergence. Ireland’s labour productivity...

...Eoin O’Leary Uses a specially constructed data set to present new evidence on the convergence performance of Ireland among European Union (EU) countries at the aggregate, sectoral and industry levels for the period 1960 to 1990. Overall, aggregate convergence occurred among the EU 12 over...

...J.C. Stewart Ireland has extensive corporate tax allowances and low rates of corporation tax. Thus connected companies have an incentive to switch profits to Ireland using transfer pricing. This article examines value added and trade statistics of certain chemical and food sectors published...