Browsing by Author "McQuinn, Kieran"
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Cost efficiency in UK and Irish credit institutions
Fitzpatrick, Trevor; McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)This paper presents aggregated cost efficiency scores for a balanced panel of British and Irish credit institutions and relates these scores to loan loss reserves as a first step in investigating their usefulness as possible ... -
Credit Availability, Macroprudential Regulations and the House Price-to-rent Ratio
Cronin, David; McQuinn, Kieran (Elsevier, 2016-06-09)Quantifying the real economy effects of macroprudential policy is important at a time when such measures are increasingly being promoted as central to the prevention of future credit and house price bubbles. Recently, like ... -
Dynamic factor demands in a changing economy: an Irish application
McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)In this paper a model of dynamic factor demands is presented for the Irish economy. Total costs, labour and capital are modelled on a two-stage basis. First, a static, long-run cost function is specified which allows for ... -
Exploring the short-run implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on affordability in the Irish private rental market
O'Toole, Conor; Slaymaker, Rachel; McQuinn, Kieran; Coffey, Cathal; Corrigan, Eoin (ESRI, 2020-07-28) -
Exploring the Steady-State Relationship Between Credit and GDP for a Small Open Economy–The Case Of Ireland
Kelly, Robert; McQuinn, Kieran; Stuart, Rebecca (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)The rapid increase in credit in an economy is now commonly perceived to be one of the leading indicators of financial instability. This view has been reinforced by the aftermath of the international financial crisis, which ... -
How are Irish households coping with their mortgage repayments? information from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions
McCarthy, Yvonne; McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)This paper uses information contained within the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) to examine the ability of Irish households to sustain their mortgage repayments. We calculate mortgage repayment to income ... -
Modelling credit in the Irish mortgage market
Addison-Smyth, Diarmaid; McQuinn, Kieran; O'Reilly, Gerard (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)The sharp decline in the performance of international property markets has been central to the financial distress experienced globally. The Irish housing market experienced particularly strong rates of price increases and ... -
Quantifying revenue windfalls from the Irish housing market
Addison-Smyth, Diarmaid; McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)The speed and severity of the decline in the Irish fiscal position in recent years raises a number of important issues regarding the assessment of fiscal policy within the EU. From a position of relative strength, with ...