Economic Incentives

Everyone loves a comparison.  Figures from the CSO today have been reported with the headline: Prices in Republic 35% above EU averag...

Eurostat published Q3 2017 nominal hourly labour costs data earlier in the week.  Adjusting for inflation, using the Harmonised Index of Co...

The overall annual CPI inflation rate dipped down to –0.6% in January but the ‘core’ rate (excluding energy products and mortgage interest) ...

Overall inflation may have dipped into negative territory for the first time since early 2010 but if we strip out energy products (-5.5% in ...

Today’s CPI release from the CSO shows that overall consumer price annual inflation remained at 0.2% in January.  The monthly drop of 0.5% m...

The front page of the first Irish Examiner of 2014 led with calls from Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan for the introduction of rent control...

Today’s CPI release from the CSO puts the headline rate of inflation at +0.3 percent.  However, that is being dragged down by mortgage inte...

A minimum price for alcohol in Ireland remains on the agenda (though it’s legality is still uncertain).  Data from Eurostat show that Irelan...

Yesterday’s CPI release for August from the CSO shows that general inflation over the past 12 months has been very low.  The following chart...

Although the overall inflation rate from the April Consumer Price Index was unchanged at 0.5% what we have termed the ‘core’ rate of inflat...

After more than two and a half years where the upward pressure on inflation was coming from Energy Products and Mortgage Interest, the past ...

Yesterday’s Consumer Price Index release for July from the CSO shows the overall rate of inflation falling for the fourth month in a row.  ...

This morning’s release of the March Consumer Price Index by the CSO shows that the headline rate of inflation edged higher rising from 2.1%...

Today’s CPI release from the CSO reports that the headline rate of annual inflation rose from 2.8% in October to 2.9% in November.  As has ...

The headline rate of inflation from today’s Consumer Price Index release is 2.8%.  However 2.33 percentage points of that are accounted for ...

Overall annual inflation from September’s Consumer Price Index shows a jump from 2.2% in August to 2.6% in September.  If we look at the 85...

The July CPI is also the first the picks up the effect of the reduced VAT rate of 9% on the supply of certain goods and services. Details he...

According to the July release of the CSO’s Consumer Price Index the headline rate of inflation stayed at +2.7% for the third month in a row...

The June Consumer Price Index shows little change in inflation. The overall inflation rate remained at +2.7%, the level recorded in June, w...

Here is a quick update of a previous post which compared the movements of the Consumer Price Indices for Ireland the UK since January 2007....