EC Spring Forecast

The European Commission have released their Spring 2013 Economic Forecast which can be accessed here, with the forecasts for Ireland extracted here.

Boom, Bust or What?

The NYT Magazine has a long piece on the US economy, featuring Summers and Hubbard here.

Economic Growth Perspectives for Europe

The European Commission also sponsored a set of papers on economic growth: the overview by Karl Pichelmann is here and the individual papers are below

Forecast Errors

Ben Broadbent gave a speech on the topic last night – it is here.

Senator Barrett’s Financial Stability and Reform Bill 2013

The debate within the Seanad around Senator Sean Barrett’s private member’s bill on financial stability and reform is here. It’s well worth looking at. Some of the contributions are excellent, and I think it gives us a sense of what’s going on within policy circles as well as they types of legislative actions that might be considered by the government in the coming years around transparency and accountability.