RSS 1.0The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, April, 1992
Recent Submissions
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"Ireland's economy in the 1980s: Stagnation and recovery": A Comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)During much of the 1980s the Irish national debt/GDP ratio reached 130 per cent, the current account deficit was over 15 per cent, while the government deficit remained persistently large. Since then the debt/GDP ratio has ... -
"Social consensus and incomes policy": a comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)Most people are conditioned to believe that centralised pay deals are a good thing. They have names that stress harmony and consensus from National Understandings to Programmes for Economic and Social Progress. They are ... -
Social consensus and incomes policy
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)This paper argues that centralised bargaining as practised in Ireland added to wage inflationary pressure as: the focus of centralised bargaining was the preservation of good industrial relations; the process of wage ... -
"Fiscal adjustment in Ireland in the 1980s": a comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)The Irish experience with fiscal adjustment is interesting, not just for a domestic audience but also for an international one. If one confines the comparison to the OECD countries, the Irish experience can be seen as part ... -
Distributional aspects of Ireland's fiscal adjustment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)Conflicting claims about the distributional impact of Ireland's fiscal adjustment have been made. This paper clarifies the different implicit standards on which these may be based, and uses the limited available data on ... -
"Distributional aspects of Ireland's fiscal adjustment": a comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)There is little, if anything, I can add to the fine paper by Tim Callan and Brian Nolan in the way of statistical data or direct comment. Their treatment of the topic has been comprehensive, impartial and professional. The ... -
Fiscal adjustment in Ireland in the 1980s
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)We examine both the motivation for, and the overall dynamics of, fiscal adjustment from 1981 to 1991. Growing interest costs to meet an ever-expanding debt, combined with the impact of retrenchment on the welfare bill and ... -
Ireland's economy in the 1980s: stagnation and recovery - a preliminary review of the evidence
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)This paper reviews recent literature on Ireland's economic experiences in the 1980s. It was a decade of EMS membership, with stagnation and a rapidly mounting debt problem followed by a sharp recovery from 1987. Controversy ... -
"Fiscal policies, devaluations and exchange rate regimes": a comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)A characteristic of many small countries is their propensity to compare domestic performance with that of the outside world. The Irish are much given to this practice. Different comparators are taken depending on the nature ... -
Fiscal policies, devaluations and exchange rate regimes: the stabilisation programmes of Ireland and Greece
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)This paper contrasts the stabilisation programmes of Ireland and Greece in the 1980s and draws out lessons for the design of such programmes in small open economies. Programmes relying on government revenue increases are ... -
"Crowding out effects of government spending": a comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)This paper presents a review of the current state of macroeconomic theory concerning the impact of Government spending on economic activity. The models presented reflect the current approach in theoretical analysis of ... -
Crowding out effects of government spending
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)This paper surveys the recent theoretical literature on the linkage between government spending and the real economy. Two broad frameworks are explored. Nee-Keynesian models deal with economies characterised by wage or ...
