Author: Philip Lane

The European Commission has engaged in the ‘battle of the boxes’ with Box 1.5 in its new report a direct response to the IMF box on fiscal multipliers.

New from the CSO here.

Eamon Quinn reports in the WSJ here.

The IMF’s annual research conference takes place later this week –  some of the papers are already available here.

One paper looks at the coherence of the euro area – it is here.

This speech by Ben Broadbent is quite insightful about the nature of construction activity – although the context is the UK experience, it is also quite relevant in understanding the Irish situation.