Is Ireland really the role model for austerity?

Stephen Kinsella ()

No 201122, Working Papers from Geary Institute, University College Dublin

Abstract: This paper describes the causes and consequences of Ireland's economic crisis in the context of the policy solution implemented to contain that crisis: protracted fiscal austerity. I describe the causes of the recent crisis in Ireland, and look at the logic of austerity with a simple model. I compare the current crisis to the crisis of the 1980's, when fiscal austerity was touted as the trigger for the Celtic Tiger. I discuss the measures implemented to date in the current crisis, tracing their effects on sectors of Ireland's macroeconomy, and, finally, ask whether Ireland is, indeed, the role model for fiscal austerity in the Eurozone and beyond.

Keywords: Ireland; Austerity; Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E00 E30 E62 E63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2011-09-19
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