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Alternative seasonal adjustment methods for aggregate Irish macroeconomic data

McCarthy, Colm ; Lawlor, John (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2005-10)

Three distinct strands can be identified in the literature on seasonality. Economists have long been interested in removing high-frequency "noise" from individual economic time series, or "deseasonalizing the data" in ...
The balance of payments problem and the investment problem

McCarthy, Colm (Helicon, 1982)
Browsing onwards : Irish public spending in perspective

McCarthy, Colm ; Lawlor, John (Irish Bankers' Federation, 2003)

In the context of the current debate over standards of public services in Ireland and the appropriate level of public spending this paper reviews historical trends in Irish public expenditure, its relationship to GDP/GNP ...
Climate change and energy taxes

McCarthy, Colm (2006)
Competition or regulation for European airports?

McCarthy, Colm (Lit Verlag, 2006)

The airline segment of Europe's aviation sector has gone through a sweeping process of liberalisation. Change has been slower in the airports business. Europe's airports are shielded from competition by a structure that ...
Controlling the cost of controlling the climate : the Irish government’s climate change strategy

McCarthy, Colm ; Scott, Sue (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-04)
Corruption in public office in Ireland : policy design as a countermeasure

McCarthy, Colm (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2003-10)
Crawling through the sprawl : commuting patterns, urban form and public transport in Dublin

McCarthy, Colm (Irish Bankers' Federation, 2004)

The process of residential sprawl and accompanying car dependence has become irreversible, to the point where the case for further investment in expensive urban public transport systems has been undermined. Investments ...
Economic aspects of personal injury compensation in Ireland

McCarthy, Colm (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-07)

Victims of events including road accidents, workplace injuries and medical negligence are compensated in the Irish legal system through once-off lump-sum awards. In cases where victims have suffered incapacitating injuries ...
Fiscal adjustment and macroeconomic re-balancing in Ireland

McCarthy, Colm (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-12)
Fiscal adjustment and re-balancing the Irish economy

McCarthy, Colm (The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2009-11-26)
Fiscal Consolidation II : lessons from the last time

McCarthy, Colm (www.irisheconomy.ie, 2009-10-18)
Generally unacceptable accounting principles : the Irish public finance accounts

McCarthy, Colm (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2002-07)
Improving the eurosystem for old and new members

McCarthy, Colm (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-01)
Investment in water infrastructure : findings from an economic analysis of a national programme

McCarthy, Colm ; Lawlor, John ; Scott, Sue (Taylor & Francis, 2007)

Mixed findings emerge from this ex post Cost-Benefit Analysis of a major water investment programme in Ireland. Water supply and conservation investments, where most benefits were internal, generally proved worthwhile. ...
Ireland’s European crisis : staying solvent in the Eurozone

McCarthy, Colm (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-01)

A popular narrative amongst European policymakers is that Eurozone members facing problems in the bond market are paying the price for past budgetary excess. Fiscal consolidation in these countries is seen as the principal ...
Ireland’s second fiscal consolidation – lessons from the last time

McCarthy, Colm (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-10)
Irish pensions policy and public debt management

McCarthy, Colm (www.irisheconomy.ie, 2009-05-20)
Measuring fuel diversity in power generation

McCarthy, Colm ; O'Dwyer, Jeremiah ; Troy, Richard (University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2006-11)
Owner-occupied housing costs and bias in the Irish Consumer Price Index

McCarthy, Colm (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-06)

The treatment of owner-occupied housing costs is a recurring problem in the construction of consumer price indices, and there are competing methodologies. In the most widely-used Irish index, the Payments Approach, which ...