Purpose – This chapter examines the roles and challenges for the Irish economy in the aftermath of the collapse of the Celtic Tiger and the onset of the 2008 economic crisis. Specifically it does review the role that Government, the Central Bank of Ireland, and the Financial Regulator had...

Economic growth has, once again, taken centre-stage in macroeconomics. Attempting to discriminate empirically between exogenous and endogenous engines of growth has become an important element of this resurgence and this paper adds to the debate. In this paper we present two contributions to the...