Industrial Stategy - It's all in the game

23 Jan 2019
Paul Mac Flynn
Foreign Direct Investment is something we talk a lot about in Northern Ireland. In terms of the industrial development we actually talk about little else. Getting big multinational firms to invest in Northern Ireland is seen as one of the key avenues to lifting our growth rate and becoming a...

Industrial Strategy - It's all in the game

23 Jan 2019
infobo
Factory
Foreign Direct Investment is something we talk a lot about in Northern Ireland. In terms of the industrial development we actually talk about little else. Getting big multinational firms to invest in Northern Ireland is seen as one of the key avenues to lifting our growth rate and becoming a...

Future positive

04 Jan 2019
Tom Healy
Let me begin this year with a confession. Had the NERI been in existence 11 years ago in January 2008 we might have anticipated an economic slow down rather than the biggest global economic crash since the 1920s. Economists and others, naturally, extrapolate from various trends over the preceding...

Innovation and Growth: Concepts and Policy Implications

20 Dec 2018
infobo
This paper focuses on sustainable and inclusive long-run economic growth. The core idea is that knowledge and new ideas manifesting as ‘innovations’ are the key to sustainable long-run economic growth. Following the main discussion, I draw out a set of high-level implications to help guide...

6th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin lecture

The Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) Annual Dónal Nevin Lecture took place on 12th December, 2018 in Queen's University Belfast. Professor Kevin O'Rourke, University of Oxford considered the...

NERI Seminar Dublin: Post Budget Seminar 2018

Past event
Slides from NERI Post Budget Seminar held in the INTO Learning Centre on 17th October. The three speakers each made a brief presentation responding to aspects of Budget 2019. The presentations were delivered by Fergal O'Brien (IBEC), Michael Taft (SIPTU) and Dr Sinead Pembroke (TASC) Budget 2019...

Presentation to Private Sector Commitee: Prospects for Private Sector Wages 2018/2019

External event contribution
The Republic of Ireland's labour market is tightening, albeit not yet overheating. As such, the prospects for real wage growth for workers continue to improve. In this presentation we assess the state of the Republic of Ireland's labour market and look ahead to the potential for real wage growth in...

Being Brexit ready (the case of housing)

16 Nov 2018
Tom Healy
As the time left to B-day on the 29th March next shortens, many organisations and individuals are making their own preparations. While a Withdrawal Agreement is far from certain at the time of writing this blog, it does appear that there is a considerable momentum to avoid a 'no-deal' situation as...
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