Whelan, Karl(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-11)
The Eurosystem’s TARGET2 payments system has featured heavily in academic and
popular discussions in recent years. Much of this commentary had described the system as being responsible for a “secret bailout” of Europe’s ...
The ramifications of the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures straddling several centuries in northwestern Europe, reach far beyond meteorology into economic, political, and cultural history. The LIA has
spawned ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-12)
By European standards Ireland ranks high on many non-economic indicators of well-being. This paper explores how macroeconomic conditions have affected a range of these indicators. Time series data are used to explore the ...