We examine the usefulness of the Expansionary Fiscal Contraction hypothesis in explaining the performance of the Irish and Danish economies. We find some evidence in favour of a weak version of the EFC hypotheisis: If the ...
Williams, Brendan(University College Dublin. Planning and Environmental Policy, 2006-10)
Urban development policies have major and immediate impacts on the development and construction processes and have been the subject of major initiatives in recent years particularly in the housing and urban regeneration ...
Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the critical role fiscal incentives have played in urban regeneration in Ireland since 1986, focusing on the role of such incentives, their impact on development and implications for ...
Irish experience during a recent period of severe fiscal adjustment attracted international attention and was claimed to demonstrate an expansionary fiscal contraction. Using a small structural model which fits the stylized ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-03)
This paper examines the Irish macroeconomic adjustment over the period since 1979
with particular reference to the interaction of the real exchange rate with the balance between national saving and investment. The transition ...
This paper analyzes the role of tax policy in the transformation of the Irish economy
from the 1980s to the 1990s. Details are provided of the marked underperformance
of the economy in the 1980s, evidenced by rising ...
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize
the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The
(marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach ...