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A Review of the Methodologies used in Compiling Owner-Occupiers’ Housing Indices

This paper examines the manner in which owner-occupiers housing costs are incorporated in the official inflation index. In particular, the focus is on the net acquisitions and the payments approach, which are currently used by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

Household Savings Constraints, Uncertainty and Macroprudential Policy

Despite the increasingly wide-spread nature of macroprudential regulations, relatively few studies have assessed the implications of such policies on key household finance decisions. In this paper, we investigate the impact on Irish household perceived savings constraints of macroprudential policy measures introduced by the Central Bank of Ireland in early 2015.

Ireland and Brexit, Modelling the impact of deal and no-deal scenarios

A counterfactual analysis of the long-run growth prospects of Ireland under various potential Brexit scenarios. Commissioned by the Irish government’s Department of Finance and co-authored as part of the ESRI.