Browsing by Subject "Inflation - Ireland"

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    • Expenditure patterns and welfare effects of inflation - estimates of a true cost-of-living index 

      Irvine, Ian; McCarthy, Colm (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      Inflation can have two principal kinds of redistributive effects. Even when relative prices are constant, the position of creditors worsens vis-a-vis that of debtors, unless the inflation is perfectly anticipated. If ...

    • Inflation and consumption in Ireland 

      Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      In inflationary times, consumers have limited, mainly out-of-date, information on the general level of prices. Consequently, when the general rate of inflation accelerates unexpectedly, consumers tend to mistakenly regard ...

    • Recent price trend in Ireland 

      Geary, R.C.; Pratschke, J.L.; Henry, E.W. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      In the first section we set out the major price trends since 1958 and indicate the principal cause of price inflation. In later sections we examine the effects of productivity, wage and profit rates, prices of imports and ...

    • Some effects of North Sea oil on Irish economy 

      Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      It wis argued here that the formulation of policies, whether of the private or public sector, based on the assumption that the Irish inflation rate will be (and can safely be) close to that in the U.K. are likely to prove ...