Economic Insights

Economic Insights - Volume 2 2025 - August 2025

1. Rising Costs, Ageing Population: Considerations for the Fiscal Sustainability of the Irish Healthcare System
2. Slack in the Irish labour market
3. Continental drift: Unpacking the divergence in income per capita in the US and euro area

Economic Insights Volume 1 2025 - January 2025

1. Household wealth in Ireland: rising wealth and falling inequality
2. Diverging trends in Irish investment
3. Connecting the Dots: Revisions in the National Accounts and Real-Time Analysis

Economic Insights – Volume 3 2024 - September 2024

1. Saving grace? Prospects for Irish 'excess' savings
2. Taking stock of intangible assets in Ireland
3. A guide to the revised EU fiscal framework

Economic Insights – Volume 2 2024 - April 2024

1. Mind the gap - measuring the lag between planning permissions and commencement
2. Reach for the r* - the future of the ‘natural rate’ of interest
3. EU Industrial Policy and Potential Implications for Ireland

Economic Insights - Spring 2024 - February 2024

1. Beyond tightness: A closer look at demand-supply imbalances in the Irish labour market
2. Easy come, not so easy go? Irish inflationary dynamics
3. A tale of two sectors: an exploration through the institutional sector accounts

Economic Insights - Winter 2023 - December 2023

1. Developments in Irish pharmaceutical exports.
2. Two sides of the same coin: consumption and savings post-pandemic.
3. Links between third level education rates, the multinational sector, and productivity.

Economic Insights - Summer 2023 - July 2023

1. Easing labour demand and the outlook for Ireland’s ICT sector
2. De-globalisation and the outlook for the Irish semiconductor industry
3. Developments in dormant planning permissions

Economic Insights - Spring 2023 - February 2023

1. A Conscious Decoupling: the relationship between economic activity and greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland
2. Climes are Changing: the possible macroeconomic implications
3. Assessing the implications of rising interest rates on the Irish housing sector

Economic Insights – Winter 2022 - December 2022

1. GNI* in 2021: Robust economic growth or the fast and the spurious?
2. Post Covid labour market reallocation
3. China’s economic challenges and economic spillover risks

Economic Insights – Summer 2022 - July 2022

1. Distributional analysis of the Government’s April 2022 cost of living package
2. Evaluating the trajectory of rising construction costs in the Irish housing sector
3. We got locked down, but did we get back up again? High-frequency indicators post-Covid

Economic Insights – Spring 2022 - April 2022

1. The drivers of growth in GNI* per capita
2. Recent developments in MNE goods exports
3. Overview of the housing market: a long-term perspective

Economic Insights - Winter 2021 - December 2021

1. Inflation: Transitory or Persistent?
2. Covid-19 Impact on Irish Labour Supply vs Demand
3. Household Incomes During the Covid-19 Pandemic
4. Assessing Recent Developments in the Modified Current Account Balance

Economic Insights Summer 2021 - July 2021

1. Assessing the immediate impact of Brexit on Irish-UK bilateral trade
2. Impact of Covid-19 on remote working in Ireland
3. Covid-19 and the Irish Labour Market – Insights from High Frequency Data

Economic Insights: Economic Developments during Covid 19 and beyond - April 2021

1. The pandemic through the prism of high frequency indicators
2. Ireland’s automatic fiscal stabilisers in context
3. Scarring effects

Economic Insights - Economic Statistics during COVID-19 - January 2021

1. Will Household Savings Stimulate a Consumer-Led Recovery? Lessons from Special Savings Incentive Accounts
2. Covid-19 impact on Irish Pharmaceutical Exports
3. Ireland’s Unemployment Rate and Covid-19 Disruption