My UL colleagues Sheila Killian, John Garvey, and Frances Shaw have produced a valuable report Auditing Irish debt. In particular, pages 13–19 will be of interest to the readers of this blog, as will tables 9 and 10, where the total debt guaranteed by the State is collated. Table 9, which I reproduce below, just looks at the covered institutions.
Frank is excellent in today’s IT on the role of incentives in Ireland, and a need for a review of those incentives.
On the 21st of September Professor David Mowery of UC Berkeley will give a seminar entitled ‘Mission Driven R&D and Climate Change Innovation: Lessons from US Experience with Information Technology’ at the ESRI (Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2). This is a lunchtime seminar starting at 1pm. More details can be found here.
This European Commission annual report is now available here.
Willem Buiter provides a primer on the various scenarios here.