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Governing the Irish Economy: A Triple Crisis

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  • Sebastian Dellepiane

    (University of Antwerp)

  • Niamh Hardiman

    (University College Dublin)

Abstract

The international economic crisis hit Ireland hard from 2007 on. Ireland’s membership of the Euro had a significant effect on the policy configuration in the run-up to the crisis, as this had shaped credit availability, bank incentives, fiscal priorities, and wage bargaining practices in a variety of ways. But domestic political choices shaped the terms on which Ireland experienced the crisis. The prior configuration of domestic policy choices, the structure of decision-making, and the influence of organized interests over government, all play a vital role in explaining the scale and severity of crisis. Indeed, this paper argues that Ireland has had to manage not one economic crisis but three – financial, fiscal, and competitiveness. Initial recourse to the orthodox strategies of spending cuts and cost containment did not contain the spread of the crisis, and in November 2010 Ireland entered an EU-IMF loan agreement. This paper outlines the pathways to this outcome.

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Paper provided by Geary Institute, University College Dublin in its series Working Papers with number 201103.

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Length: 39 pages
Date of creation: 21 Feb 2011
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Handle: RePEc:ucd:wpaper:201103

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  1. Dellepiane and Hardiman Working Paper: Ireland's Triple Crisis
    by Liam Delaney in Geary Behaviour Centre on 2011-02-25 01:03:00
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  1. Paul Gillespie, 2012. "At the receiving end—Irish perspectives and response to the banking and sovereign debt crises," Asia Europe Journal, Springer, vol. 9(2), pages 125-139, March.
  2. Sebastian Dellepiane & Niamh Hardiman, 2012. "Fiscal Politics In Time: Pathways to Fiscal Consolidation, 1980-2012," Working Papers 201228, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
  3. Sebastian Dellepiane & Niamh Hardiman, 2012. "The New Politics of Austerity: Fiscal Responses to the Economic Crisis in Ireland and Spain," Working Papers 201207, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.

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