The Irish Economy

Available here.  Minor improvement in growth forecast for this year, offset by minor reduction in growth forecast for next year.

As always, the ‘signed articles’ are of special interest

• Cost Competitiveness and Export Performance of the Irish Economy by Derry O’Brien and John Scally
• Recent Trends in Irish Expenditure and Prices by Colin Bermingham
• Analysis of Recent Monetary Operations & TARGET2 Developments  by Patrick Haran and Samuel Bailey

The IMF has released new documentation of its revised approach to country surveillance, with a view to increasing the global coherence of its analysis

• Pilot External Sector Report here
• PIN here

The NYT profiles PIMCO co-CEO  Mohamed El-Erian here.

This article collects the views of some of the most active research economists – see here.

Eamon Quinn reports here.