Showing posts with label Irish data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish data. Show all posts
Friday, January 11, 2019

11/1/19: A Behavioral Experiment: Irish License Plates and Household Demand for Cars

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While a relatively well known and understood fact in Ireland, this is an interesting snapshot of data for our students in Behavioral Finan...
Friday, March 6, 2009

Irish Boardrooms in Denial

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This is an unedited version of the article published in Business&Finance Magazine, February 26, 2009, pages 30-31 Almost a year ago, I w...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Some housekeeping: a handful of updates

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A cleaning up of some of my emails provided for a digest of interesting updates on the topics already covered in other posts. Here is an att...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

How bad will it get? IMF study

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Here is a new insight into recessions dynamics. This time from the IMF (see link here ). What Happens During Recessions, Crunches and Busts...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Trade and Unemployment Stats

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Trade meltdown Our latest trade situation is dire ( here ). Although “Seasonally adjusted imports fell by 11% in December relative to Novemb...
Monday, February 2, 2009

S&P's visit: Pints!

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S&P gang is in town (hat tip to P.O.) making rounds, sniffing out the need to slam the book on Irish bonds AAA rating. Better late than ...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009

DofF Forecast: Update I

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According to today's reports, the y-o-y tax take in January is down 15% (hat tip to B.). My personal projection, given the dynamics of 2...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

DofF Forecast: does it hold any water?

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I have a serious question to ask of our Government: Do budgetary projections by the DofF in (e.g those contained in their January 2009 Adden...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Corporate wipe-out and homeowners

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Figures released by ICC Information today show that 21% of trading companies in Ireland have a ‘Negative Net Worth’. In other words, their b...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Public Sector: A Feast Amidst the Plague: Update I

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Here is another interesting observation concerning Public Sector earnings. The figure below clearly shows that wages in the lowest earning c...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Public Sector: A Feast Amidst the Plague

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According to the latest CSO figures ( here ): “ Average weekly earnings in the Public Sector (e xcluding Health) rose by 2.9% in the year to...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

How (not) to spin data

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The latest press-release from CSO’s QNHS-based analysis of Q2 2002 – Q2 2008 data on educational attainment sounds self-congratulatory: “In...