Author: Philip Lane

The G20 London Summit

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 3, 2009

The prospects for the Irish economy are very sensitive to the resumption of global growth. The VoxEU website provides some ‘instant’ analytical responses to the London Summit, including essays by some of the key UK civil servants involved in organising the summit: the link is here.

I will be answering reader questions about the G20 summit on Monday at this website.

Categories In World Economy
Tags G20, London Summit, VOX

The View from the Brokers

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 2, 2009

Davy, Goodbody and NCB have collaborated on this joint report on the Irish economy: you can download it here.

Categories In Banking Crisis, Economic Performance, Fiscal Policy
Tags Irish economy
2 Comments on The View from the Brokers

The Labour Market in Recession

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 1, 2009

The ESRI is holding a conference on this topic on April 30th: details are here.

Categories In Economic Performance
Tags Irish labour market, Irish unemployment
1 Comment on The Labour Market in Recession

What Should The Government Do?

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date April 1, 2009

Ciaran O’Hagan gives his opinion here.

Drawing on a contribution by Patrick Honohan on this blog, Vincent Browne gives his opinion here.

Categories In Fiscal Policy
Tags Irish budget
7 Comments on What Should The Government Do?

Profile of Brian Lucey

Post author By Philip Lane
Post date March 31, 2009

The Irish Times profiles Brian in today’s edition: you can read it here.