Economic Incentives

The Net International Investment Position (NIIP) of a country is the balance of external financial assets and liabilities.  In headline term...

We have previously looked at the impact each of the sectors of the economy have on Ireland’s international investment position – that is, th...

At the end of 2014 the level of ‘real economy’ debt in Ireland was reported as being: Household Debt: €157.7 billion Government Deb...

A recent report on debt and deleveraging from McKinsey attracted some attention, due in part to the location of Ireland in a few of the key...

The December Exchequer Returns showed that €7,466 million of interest expenditure was incurred by the Exchequer in 2014. This is only w...

Ireland may have run into funding difficulties elsewhere over the past few years by the State Savings Schemes run by the NTMA continue to at...

Charts like the following appear fairly regularly. The latest occurrence was on the website of The Wall Street Journal.  There is nothi...

The non-financial institutional sector accounts include items for ‘interest paid’ and ‘interest received’.  However the number reported by ...

The release on Thursday of the 2011 Institutional Sector Accounts by the CSO gives an insight into the financial stocks (assets and liabili...

Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal , Eddie Hobbs has an article under the banner ‘Don’t Expect a Celtic Comeback’.  The overall thrust ...

A lot of attention recently has been given to the fiscal rules that formed the basis of the recent EU treaty (inter-governmental agreement?)...

A restructuring of the €31 billion of Promissory Notes given to Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide (now merged in the Irish Bank Resoluti...

Here is an update of a table showing the interest rates on the loans we are getting as part of the EU/IMF programme (HT: Kevin).  The data i...

Over the next two years the Irish government needs about €46 billion of funding. We still have to draw down around €33.5 billion of the ...

Although have we been “shut out” of bond markets, the EU/IMF is not the only remaining source of funding for the State.  The National Treasu...