ESRI Budget Perspectives 2015 Conference

Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2

The 17th Budget Perspectives Conference examines budget-related policy issues of interest from both macroeconomic and microeconomic standpoints. The opening session will explore medium-term fiscal challenges from a macroeconomic perspective (John FitzGerald) and the impact of housing market developments on consumption (Kieran McQuinn and Yvonne McCarthy). This year’s guest speaker is Cormac O’Dea from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS, London); his paper looks at the distributional effects of public services spending cuts in the UK. The final paper, by the ESRI SWITCH team, presents an in-depth examination of financial incentives to work in Ireland.

PROGRAMME

08.30 Registration and coffee

08.55 Welcome: Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI

Session 1

Chair: Frances Ruane, ESRI

09.00 "Fiscal Adjustment in Ireland in the Medium Term" John FitzGerald (ESRI)

Presentation

09.45 "Consumption and the housing market: An Irish perspective"

Yvonne McCarthy (Central Bank) and Kieran McQuinn (ESRI)

Presentation

10.30 Tea/Coffee

Session 2

Chair: Niamh O’Donoghue, Dept. of Social Protection

11.00 "Can we measure who loses most from public service spending cuts?"

Cormac O’Dea (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London)

Presentation

11.45 "Welfare Targeting and Work Incentives"

Michael Savage, Tim Callan, Claire Keane, Elish Kelly and John R. Walsh (ESRI)

Presentation

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