Electricity Supply Board
... “improved liquidity position after it raised EUR1.4bn of new debt (with an average cost of 4.5%) during 2011” “Around 65% of the expected earnings…over the next four years will derive from the regulated network businesses, compared with up to about one-third for most peers.” ...
... “improved liquidity position after it raised EUR1.4bn of new debt (with an average cost of 4.5%) during 2011” “Around 65% of the expected earnings…over the next four years will derive from the regulated network businesses, compared with up to about one-third for most peers.” ...
No.374 / September 2011 The Cyclical Conduct of Irish Fiscal Policy
... The goal of this paper is to describe and critically assess the conduct of Irish …scal policy, both during the pre-crisis period and during the crisis that has taken hold of the Irish economy since 2008. Ireland is an important case study for the conduct of …scal policy. As a volatile economy, it is ...
... The goal of this paper is to describe and critically assess the conduct of Irish …scal policy, both during the pre-crisis period and during the crisis that has taken hold of the Irish economy since 2008. Ireland is an important case study for the conduct of …scal policy. As a volatile economy, it is ...
Changes in Economic Freedom in Venezuela, Ireland, and the
... It is easy to see how and why economic freedom is positively related to economic growth. Any transaction freely agreed to must benefit all parties to the transaction; any transaction that does not benefit all parties would be rejected by the party that would come up short. This has consequences thro ...
... It is easy to see how and why economic freedom is positively related to economic growth. Any transaction freely agreed to must benefit all parties to the transaction; any transaction that does not benefit all parties would be rejected by the party that would come up short. This has consequences thro ...
CROSS-BORDER ECONOMIC RENEWAL Rethinking Regional
... IVA programme. It had been conceptualised during a slightly earlier, more prosperous era and the original project title - Normal Business Restored: reviving the border region economy in a new era of peace and devolved government - took on new, challenging meanings when the true horror of the post-20 ...
... IVA programme. It had been conceptualised during a slightly earlier, more prosperous era and the original project title - Normal Business Restored: reviving the border region economy in a new era of peace and devolved government - took on new, challenging meanings when the true horror of the post-20 ...
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... 1 Greece, which was bailed-out twice (for e110bn in 2010 and then again for e109bn in 2011) negotiated, in February 2012, a new e130bn rescue package involving a voluntary haircut of some 53.5% on the face value of its bonds held by the private sector. Eurozone ministers agreed (in November 2012) to ...
... 1 Greece, which was bailed-out twice (for e110bn in 2010 and then again for e109bn in 2011) negotiated, in February 2012, a new e130bn rescue package involving a voluntary haircut of some 53.5% on the face value of its bonds held by the private sector. Eurozone ministers agreed (in November 2012) to ...
International Risk Sharing and the Irish Economy Agustín S. Bénétrix IIIS
... (CPIS). Bilateral data on bank loans are obtained from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) locational database while FDI data are from the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). ...
... (CPIS). Bilateral data on bank loans are obtained from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) locational database while FDI data are from the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). ...
Modeling Irish Unification
... 1. Harmonization of the tax systems across the Island, with the North adopting the tax rates and regulations of the south. This harmonization of taxes would involve both changes in adoption of activity taxes as well as taxes on imports, commodities, and institutional taxes. These changes would like ...
... 1. Harmonization of the tax systems across the Island, with the North adopting the tax rates and regulations of the south. This harmonization of taxes would involve both changes in adoption of activity taxes as well as taxes on imports, commodities, and institutional taxes. These changes would like ...
Restoring Competitiveness to Ireland`s Tourism Industry THE ROLE
... maintaining the measure over the past few years. Section 4 includes a meta‐analysis of the economic effects of the VAT reduction based on a range of empirical studies. This section explores whether the VAT reduction was passed on to consumers; the effect on activity in ...
... maintaining the measure over the past few years. Section 4 includes a meta‐analysis of the economic effects of the VAT reduction based on a range of empirical studies. This section explores whether the VAT reduction was passed on to consumers; the effect on activity in ...
Around the European Periphery 1870–1913
... labour migrated to the labour-scarce New World and from low-wage to high-wage European labour markets; Britain placed enormous amounts of capital overseas while France and Germany invested large amounts around the capital-scarce European periphery; transport costs plunged worldwide, subjecting Europ ...
... labour migrated to the labour-scarce New World and from low-wage to high-wage European labour markets; Britain placed enormous amounts of capital overseas while France and Germany invested large amounts around the capital-scarce European periphery; transport costs plunged worldwide, subjecting Europ ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CAN SEVERE FISCAL CONTRACTIONS BE EXPANSIONARY?
... We wish to thank Olivier Blanchard, Allan Drazen, Alberto Alesina, Vittorio Crilli, Tullio Jappelli, Mervyn King, Luigi Spaventa, Niels Thygesen and participants to the 1990 NEER Macroeconomics Annual Conference, for helpful suggestions and advice. Anders Moller Christensen and Dan Knudsen of Danjua ...
... We wish to thank Olivier Blanchard, Allan Drazen, Alberto Alesina, Vittorio Crilli, Tullio Jappelli, Mervyn King, Luigi Spaventa, Niels Thygesen and participants to the 1990 NEER Macroeconomics Annual Conference, for helpful suggestions and advice. Anders Moller Christensen and Dan Knudsen of Danjua ...
Leaving Certificate Examinations 2005
... (a) The Irish economy is a small open economy which relies on exports to help our economic growth. (i) Explain each of the underlined terms. An economy which engages in trade / imports and exports: 8 marks graded. Open economy: Economic Growth: An increase in the level of national income /GNP: 8 mar ...
... (a) The Irish economy is a small open economy which relies on exports to help our economic growth. (i) Explain each of the underlined terms. An economy which engages in trade / imports and exports: 8 marks graded. Open economy: Economic Growth: An increase in the level of national income /GNP: 8 mar ...
United Kingdom – Northern Ireland: PPP Units and Related
... worldwide. However, within the United Kingdom, PPPs have been used in very different ways and at different levels of intensity. The first PPP projects were started in the early 1990s and, despite changes of government, there was a steady increase in their use throughout that decade, with most activi ...
... worldwide. However, within the United Kingdom, PPPs have been used in very different ways and at different levels of intensity. The first PPP projects were started in the early 1990s and, despite changes of government, there was a steady increase in their use throughout that decade, with most activi ...
Rebecca Stuart Central Bank of Ireland and University College Dublin
... when the gap increases, emigration follows, reducing supply in the Irish labour market and increasing wage and price inflation. Honohan (1984) estimates the equilibrium level of the unemployment gap at which there would be no net flow of migrants, while Honohan (1992) shows that the Irish unemploym ...
... when the gap increases, emigration follows, reducing supply in the Irish labour market and increasing wage and price inflation. Honohan (1984) estimates the equilibrium level of the unemployment gap at which there would be no net flow of migrants, while Honohan (1992) shows that the Irish unemploym ...
Ireland`s Stability Programme April 2015 Update
... of Ireland’s National Reform Programme (NRP), which outlines progress to date in achieving Ireland’s national targets within the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The analysis and forecasts contained in this document are based on data available to lateMarch 2015. The macroeconomic forecasts conta ...
... of Ireland’s National Reform Programme (NRP), which outlines progress to date in achieving Ireland’s national targets within the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The analysis and forecasts contained in this document are based on data available to lateMarch 2015. The macroeconomic forecasts conta ...
Global best practice in productivity improvement – lessons
... EDB recruitment targeted at high potentials – scholarships are offered to high performing high school students to study abroad and then return to work for the EDB Incentives for EDB employees are significant: financial incentives (15-50% of salary) and fast promotions The organisation is focused aro ...
... EDB recruitment targeted at high potentials – scholarships are offered to high performing high school students to study abroad and then return to work for the EDB Incentives for EDB employees are significant: financial incentives (15-50% of salary) and fast promotions The organisation is focused aro ...
- RWI Essen
... Alcidi and Gros, 2010). Moreover, relatively high consumption (and at times housing investment) during the pre-crisis period kept domestic demand and employment high. Wage increases therefore outpaced productivity, thus leading to an erosion of competitiveness. By contrast, Ireland had a much lower ...
... Alcidi and Gros, 2010). Moreover, relatively high consumption (and at times housing investment) during the pre-crisis period kept domestic demand and employment high. Wage increases therefore outpaced productivity, thus leading to an erosion of competitiveness. By contrast, Ireland had a much lower ...
Rethinking the political economy of fiscal consolidation of two
... driven by the rapidly growing scale of financial lending. Alongside this, an overreliance on sources of revenue that depended on activities related to this, ...
... driven by the rapidly growing scale of financial lending. Alongside this, an overreliance on sources of revenue that depended on activities related to this, ...
Lecture7b More on competitiveness
... though they have risen rapidly – Irish labour costs up 40% between 2000 and 2006 compared to 16% for EU15 and euro area ...
... though they have risen rapidly – Irish labour costs up 40% between 2000 and 2006 compared to 16% for EU15 and euro area ...
2006 - Careers Portal
... (ii) Discuss TWO economic benefits and TWO economic difficulties of a full employment economy in Ireland today. (25 marks) ...
... (ii) Discuss TWO economic benefits and TWO economic difficulties of a full employment economy in Ireland today. (25 marks) ...
Comparing the financial crises in Iceland and Ireland: an outline of
... standards, when measured in GDP per capita, had risen from around 60 per cent of the EU average – which was where they stood for the first 20 years of Ireland’s membership of the EU since 1973 – to 145 per cent by 2007, making it the second richest country in the Union after Luxembourg (Kirby, 2010) ...
... standards, when measured in GDP per capita, had risen from around 60 per cent of the EU average – which was where they stood for the first 20 years of Ireland’s membership of the EU since 1973 – to 145 per cent by 2007, making it the second richest country in the Union after Luxembourg (Kirby, 2010) ...
European Commission
... ERDF (& Cohesion Fund) Financial Control Unit, Ministry of Finance, Ireland OPEN DAYS – Brussels, 13 October 2005 ...
... ERDF (& Cohesion Fund) Financial Control Unit, Ministry of Finance, Ireland OPEN DAYS – Brussels, 13 October 2005 ...
fiscal policy in a monetary union: the case of ireland
... government increases expenditure to hire more labour, the impact on wage rates will be even stronger where labour supply is constrained. Model simulations (Table 1) indicate that the long-run impact of a volume increase in public expenditure of £1 billion is to raise wage rates in the economy as a w ...
... government increases expenditure to hire more labour, the impact on wage rates will be even stronger where labour supply is constrained. Model simulations (Table 1) indicate that the long-run impact of a volume increase in public expenditure of £1 billion is to raise wage rates in the economy as a w ...
Globalization, Europeanization and Trade in the 1990s
... Japanese ratio is still below its 1970s level. However, in contrasting EU and non-EU countries it could be argued that these data provide evidence of Europeanization and not Globalization, in the sense that the increased trade is intra-EU and a direct impact of the trade diversion impact of creating ...
... Japanese ratio is still below its 1970s level. However, in contrasting EU and non-EU countries it could be argued that these data provide evidence of Europeanization and not Globalization, in the sense that the increased trade is intra-EU and a direct impact of the trade diversion impact of creating ...
PowerShares EURO STOXX High Dividend Low Volatility UCITS ETF
... The objective of the Fund is to generate income, together with capital growth which would correspond to, or track, the return on the EURO iSTOXX High Dividend Low Volatility 50 Index (Net Total Return) in Euro (the “Index”) by replicating all of the constituents of the Index. An index measures the p ...
... The objective of the Fund is to generate income, together with capital growth which would correspond to, or track, the return on the EURO iSTOXX High Dividend Low Volatility 50 Index (Net Total Return) in Euro (the “Index”) by replicating all of the constituents of the Index. An index measures the p ...
