NERI Seminar Dublin: The financial position of Irish households

This presentation introduces a novel dataset on households’ income, assets and debts in Ireland: the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The HFCS is an invaluable resource for policy makers, allowing for household-level analysis of the composition of wealth and debt, leverage and the...

Vision for the Irish economy

Director of the NERI, Tom Healy sets out the parameters for a clear, long-term vision for the Irish economy to emerge. The seminar is based on a recent working paper, "The Better is yet to Come." Over the course of the presentation, Dr Healy reviewed the key economic and social challenges facing the...

NERI Seminar: Outsourcing in the Public Sector

The presentation examines the evidence on outsourcing through the framework of Value for Money (VFM). This approach allows for the consideration and analysis of evidence through focusing on three main criteria, economy, efficiency and effectiveness. It highlights the complexity of decision-making on...

NERI Seminar: Funding Models for Water Services Provision

Presentation given by Dr Tom McDonnell at the November NERI seminar. Based on a recent working paper, available here, Dr McDonnell presented findings suggesting that combining a volume based pricing structure with a system of income related water credits may best reconcile the main policy objectives...

NERI Seminar: Budget 2015

Dr Tom McDonnell's presentation on the impact of some of the main measures contained in Budget 2015