The recent global crisis revealed a role for macro-prudential policy or measures to mitigate systemic risk. In Ireland, the high costs of the recent banking crisis showed that forward-looking risk assessments and pre-emptive policy action are important to ensure that the future probability of...

The recent nancial crisis highlighted the importance of stable funding and, in particular, customer deposits for the Irish banking sector. To ensure future viability, the domestic banks must maintain and grow their household deposit books. This letter focuses on the Irish household deposit...

This paper examines the corporate funding flows of Irish credit institutions over the period 2009 to end-2010. The analysis examines the daily net movement across the consolidated corporate and retail deposit books of the domestic Irish banking sector and models these flows as a function of bank...

This paper aims to place the Irish financial crisis of 2007/08 to date in comparative context. By drawing on international experience, some stylised facts on the potential longer-term economic consequences are drawn.