Economic Incentives

Here is a piece carried by today’s Irish Examiner on the funding of public expenditure on water.  It is based on a recent post - ‘ how much...

Here is the submitted text for an article in last weekend’s SBP on the European Commission State-Aid investigation to Apple’s tax arrangemen...

Here is the submitted text for an article in this week’s SBP on SME debt, the state of the banks and this year’s stress tests for eurozone b...

Here is a piece published in the Irish Independent that looks at some of the details behind the collapse of Newbridge Credit Union. More ...

The Irish Examiner have carried two pieces from me over the past week.  They are available at the following links. Facing up to the ar...

The importance of Apple to Cork city and surrounds meant the furore of last week was bound to attract the attention of the local media.  Her...

The previous post on EU corporation tax revenues reminded me of an article for The Irish Times that was published in the Friday business s...

The unedited text of a recent article from The Irish Examiner is continued below the fold. UPDATE: The published text is here . Count...

The unedited text of an article that appeared in The Irish Examiner recently is continued below the fold. We need to face up to the re...

The text of a recent article for The Evening Echo is below the fold.

The text of a short article from today’s Cork Independent is below the fold.  It offers some brief comments on the unemployment figures pub...

Here is the text of an article written last week that was published in tonight’s Evening Echo . Our banks now just worth €12bn In t...

A short article I wrote on the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance for The Cork Independent can be read here .

Here is the text I submitted for an article that was published in tonight’s Evening Echo. Voting ‘no’ to Treaty will not stop this aust...

I wrote an article last week that was carried by Monday’s Evening Echo .  The goal was to highlight some positive elements of the current ec...

I had an article in today’s Irish Examiner examining the implications of the recent movements in Irish bond yields and the downgrade to jun...

I had a piece carried today by The Irish Examiner on Ireland’s recent trade performance. Trade Is Keeping Our Economy Afloat I’m not su...

Here is the text of an article I wrote after this week’s publication of the Review of State Assets and Liabilities that was carried by Frid...

Here is the text of an article I wrote in the aftermath of last week’s stress test announcements that was carried by Monday’s Evening Echo ....