Liquidity Risk

The Central Bank released a discussion paper this week on the management of liquidity risk  – it is available here.  Comments are invited until December 31st to liquiditydp at centralbank.ie.

Interim Report of the Commission on Credit Unions

This report is available here.

Competition in Primary HealthCare in Ireland:More and Bettter Services for Less Money

The latest issue of the Economic and Social Review carries a comprehensive essay by Carol Boate on the competition issues in the primary healthcare (GPs, dentistry, pharmacy) sector.

What’s The Plan?

The new issue of the estimable Dublin Review of Books carries this article by Michael O’Sullivan.

Quarterly Institutional Sector Accounts

The new release is here.  Among the headline numbers –  household savings rate remaining high, at 18.5 percent of gross disposable income in Q2 2011 (it was 19.6 percent in Q2 2010).