Financing for Development: Tobin Taxes and National Tax Systems

External event contribution
This paper contributed to a seminar entitled: Financing for Development: Tobin taxes, national tax systems and international tax transparency. The session considered the challenges associated with the need for developing countries to identify and develop sustainable revenue sources which can be used...

Towards a Basic Income

External event contribution
Towards a Basic Income - Dr Micheál Collins NERI Over the past four decades, despite economic booms and busts, Ireland's income distribution has remained remarkably static. Engrained in this income distribution structure is a high and sustained level of income inequality relative to our fellow EU...

There are 28.3 unemployed people for every vacancy

30 Jul 2012
Rory O'Farrell
In searching for solutions to the unemployment crisis, it can be tempting to look for cheap solutions to solve the problem. One idea is that if we cut social welfare, then the unemployed would have an incentive to look for work. As shown by indicator 2.6 of the Quarterly Economic Facts, Eurostat...

The effects of an investment stimulus

23 Jul 2012
Rory O'Farrell
The idea of an investment stimulus got a boost last week. Though people may disagree over the extent to which this is 'new money', it shows that at the very least, the government want to be seen to be pro-investment stimulus. Coincidentally, this week I presented a working paper which uses the...

An Examination of the Effects of an Investment Stimulus

19 Jul 2012
infobo
An investment stimulus is regularly proposed as a response to the recent dramatic fall in domestic demand in the Irish economy. In contrast, critics of an investment stimulus cite the high import share in the Irish economy as a reason for why the benefits of a stimulus would leak from the Irish...

Quarterly Economic Fact - Summer 2012

27 Jun 2012
infobo
Recent years have seen a huge growth in the supply, range and timeliness of data from a variety of official agencies including the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

How much does working cost?

27 Jun 2012
Micheál Collins
Being in work, or taking up work, incurs additional costs on households and individuals. Depending on circumstances, additional needs arise regarding travel, fuel, personal costs and childcare among others. While the existence of these additional costs is regularly cited, it is rarely quantified and...

NERI Fiscal Treaty Note

25 May 2012
infobo
This note focuses on the economic questions surrounding the Fiscal Treaty. The structural deficit and debt brake rules are explained, and potential sources of funding are outlined. Rather than advocating which way citizens should vote, the paper aims to help voters make an informed decision.
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