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Debt sustainability and financial crises : evidence from the GIIPS
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah; Milas, Costas - 2011
We assess the sustainability of the public finances of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIIPS), allowing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307965
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, Vladimir - 2009
including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898817
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Persistence in youth unemployment
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2012
, Portugal, Ireland and Finland, where appropriate policy actions are of the essence. Specifically, active labour market policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630623
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Eliciting individual preferences for pension reform
Fourati, Yosr Abid; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper's contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a Choice Experiment to investigate individual preferences for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883028
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937283
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Privatisation in Ireland
Barrett, Sean D. - 2004
Public enterprises in Ireland were offshoots of political nationalism. They were part of a protectionist economic … share of public enterprises in total employment has fallen by almost two-thirds to 2.7 percent. Ireland has experienced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402459
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Valuing public goods : the life satisfaction approach
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
to estimate utility losses caused by terrorist activities in France, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Terrorism in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402544
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Financial incentives to work : conceptions and results in Great Britain, Ireland and Canada
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2001
Credit, Ireland's Back to Work Allowance and her Family Income Supplement, as well as Canada's Child Tax Benefit and her Self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408445
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When unemployment disappears : Ireland in the 1990s
Walsh, Brendan M. - 2003
boom, which in turn may be attributed to Ireland s super competitiveness in the late 1990s. Several factors contributed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514165
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Target loans, current account balances and capital flows : the ECB's rescue facility
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2011
The Target liabilities of the GIPS countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) amounted to314 billion euros in … destroyed the Bretton Woods System. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy have suffered from balance-of-payments deficits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155848