Economic Incentives

The three banks in which the State continues to hold a stake are AIB, BOI and PTSB (collectively the PCAR banks).  Here is a summary of thei...

A lot of attention has been given to the Irish government bonds held by the Central Bank of Ireland and the benefits that arise from the rec...

A recent post looked at the state of the banks and in aggregate showed that the “Irish-headquartered banks” (AIB, BOI and PTSB) had €214 bi...

A previous post looked at loans in Irish banks .  Here will we confine ourselves to mortgages and will start from this graph in the earlier ...

Here we will give a look at the asset side of the balance sheets of Irish banks, looking specifically at loans and in particular at some lar...

We have looked at the ownership of bank bonds a number of times using the data compiled by the Central Bank.  Over on irisheconomy.ie, Prof...

With talk of “unsustainable debt” and “inevitability of default” growing ever louder I think the following graph from a previous post is im...