Minister Noonan at Bloomberg

Yesterday’s Irish Times covered an appearance by the Minster for Finance at Bloomberg with ‘Noonan vows to end cycle of boom-and-bust economics’.

A recording of the short address given and the subsequent Q&A session is available here.

Data releases

Live Register here.

Fiscal update:

Banking Union Speeches

From today’s IIEA event:

Balance Sheet Assessments

AIB and Bank of Ireland have released statements (one somewhat shorter than the other) following the results of the balance sheet assessments carried out by the Central Bank.

UPDATE: The statement released from PTSB at 11am also reflects a paucity of information.

Consumption and credit constraints during financial crises

ESRI researchers (Petra Gerlach, Rossana Merola and Conor O’Toole) have a new VOX article here.

Two other new VOX articles are also of note –  on migration flows here;  on Italian productivity (co-authored by my TCD colleague Fadi Hassan) here.