Subject to ratification, a further ten states, primarily from Central and Eastern Europe will accede to the EU in May 2004. Another two, and possibly three, CEE states are likely to join in 2007. The present paper assesses ...
Ten states, primarily from Central and Eastern Europe, are likely to be admitted to the EU within the next few years. The present paper assesses the competitiveness
implications of this enlargement for Ireland. Four ...
Hardiman, Niamh(The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2009-11-26)
The international financial crisis manifests itself in Ireland not only as a crisis of the banking
system, but also as a major fiscal crisis, aggravated by years of soft revenue policy and a
housing bubble that has burst ...
Bradley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper examines economic progress in the island of Ireland in the context of its modern history, but with particular emphasis on the post cease-fire and post Belfast Agreement period, inquiring whether or not policy ...
The Investment Development Path (IDP) hypothesis holds that a country’s net outward
direct investment position is systematically related to its level of economic development.
Ireland is an interesting test case because ...
Dascher, Kristof(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-05)
Typically, a small and open economy trades goods at given world prices. Here, we present a model of a very open small economy, where capital and labor are internationally mobile, too. When investing into infrastructure, ...
In the last decade, the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy grew at a record rate for a developed country.Nevertheless, there has been much concern regarding the implications of the pace of economic growth for localised environmental ...
In exploring the medium-term prospects for the Irish economy, this article argues that a pessimistic scenario, in which the rapid growth of recent years inevitably ends in a crash, is not plausible. But neither is it ...