Author: Philip Lane

The Global Nature of the Recession

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 18, 2009

Paul Gillespie writes on this topic in today’s Irish Times, covering Kevin’s recent work and some of the other work cited on this blog: here.

Categories In World Economy
Tags global recession
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Ireland: The Inside Story

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 16, 2009

Cormac O’Grada provides an analysis of the Irish economy here (and advertises this blog!).

I liked this insight:

“But no economy is an island, even an island economy.”

New World Economic Outlook analytical studies from the IMF

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 16, 2009

The IMF has just released the ‘analytical’ chapters of its April 2009 World Economic Outlook report. You can download these here.

Chapter 3. From Recession to Recovery: How Soon and How Strong?

Chapter 4. How Linkages Fuel the Fire: The Transmission of Financial Stress from Advanced to Emerging Economies

Categories In Economic Performance
Tags WEO

The 2009 ESRI Geary Lecture: “The Challenge of Tax Reform and Expanding the Tax Base”

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 14, 2009

A highlight in this year’s calendar should be the Geary Lecture by Jim Poterba (MIT and President of NBER): details are here.

Categories In Fiscal Policy
Tags Geary Lecture, Poterba
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Looking Beyond the Crisis

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 14, 2009

A couple of opinion pieces in today’s Irish Times emphasise that the resolution of the crisis cannot be de-linked from planning for a new type of post-crisis socio-political system:

Michael O’Sullivan’s article is here.

Fintan O’Toole’s article is here.