Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000)
This paper studies the effect on Anglo-Irish trade of breaking the link between the Irish pound and sterling in 1979. A gravity model is used to explore this issue. No evidence is found of a structural break following the ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995-03-02)
This paper examines the bahaviour of Irish exchange rates and interest rates over two periods, one immediately before, the other immediately after, the widening of the narrow band of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the ...
This paper uses the introduction of an exchange rate between Ireland and the UK in 1979 as a natural experiment to shed light on the effects of a common currency on the volume of international trade. No evidence is found ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-01-06)
As one of a set of policies designed to reduce inflation and interest rates to the levels prevailing in Germany the Irish pound has been stabilised in the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System since ...
In trade studies Ireland emerges as having a revealed comparative disadvantage in labour-intensive industries. Can the country's unusual industrial structure contribute to our understanding of its high unemployment? The ...
Sterling's departure from the exchange rate mechanism (ERM) in September 1992 precipitated a crisis for Irish exchange rate policy that was resolved, for the time being at least, by the decision to devalue at the end of ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-05-19)
This paper examines the effects of the EMS crisis of September 1992 on the Irish pound. A review of the Irish experience in the exchange rate mechanism is presented, including an assessment of the extend to which the ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-11-11)
This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy's cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures derived from the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical
benchmark for ...