Economic Incentives

US MNCs causing distortions within Ireland’s national accounts is not unusual.  As a small economy it means the impact of these can be outsi...

We have looked aircraft imports before and today’s release from the CSO of the Trade Statistics for September further highlight the drop i...

Today’s External Trade release shows that exports to March are up 8.5% on the year with imports showing a rise of 12.3% with the net effect ...

After our analysis of the largest merchandise export sector (chemicals at 60% of the total) we will now consider Ireland’s largest services ...

The CSO released the November External Trade statistics earlier today and we will consider them in due course.  The dominant category of our...

Here are the slides I used in a seminar today to the Faculty of Commerce in UCC on the prospects of an export-led recovery in Ireland. Pro...

With the domestic economy in continued freefall, the positive growth recorded for Q3 2010 in the Quarterly National Accounts published befor...