Author: Philip Lane

The presentations from last Monday’s seminar organised by the Department of Finance and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are available here.

The English summary of the May 2011 annual report from the Swedish Council is here.

The ESCB’s views are in this document.

The Department of Finance held a seminar yesterday on various aspects of fiscal reform in Ireland, as a follow up to the report it issued a while ago.

I spoke on the design of fiscal rules.  My slides are here.

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi lays out the case for why membership of the euro area has been a stabilising force during the crisis in this speech.

The European Commission has released its detailed report on the Troika’s recent review of the Ireland deal: it is here.

The revised financing plan is especially interesting on page 21.