Research

Journal Publications: 

• Is Ireland the most intangible intensive economy in Europe? A growth accounting perspective (with K. McQuinn and P. Varthalitis) - The Review of Income and Wealth (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/roiw.12651) (a previous version of this paper was published as ESRI Working Paper No. 719 (2022))

• Public Debt and Aggregate Investment in the EU, Applied Economics Letters, 29(15), pp: 1358-1364, 2022

• Fiscal Policy Design in Greece in the Aftermath of the Crisis: An Algorithmic Approach, joint paper with S. Kotsios, Computational Economics, 51(4), pp: 893- 911, 2018,  (doi.org/10.1007/s10614-017-9650-3)

Working Papers and Submitted Manuscripts: 

• Growth Effects of Fiscal Policy: An Application of the Unobserved Common Factor Model (with P.  Varthalitis) - R&R Oxford Economic Papers ( a previous version of this paper was published as ESRI Working Paper No. 675, 2020)

• Labour Shares in the EU: Cross-Country Heterogeneity and Cross-Sectional Dependence  - new version available soon (draft available here ; a previous version of this paper was published as ESRI Working Paper No. 693 (2020))

• Government Size and Economic Growth in a Large Panel of Countries -  new version available soon 

Policy Papers and Reports: 

• Regional productivity growth in the EU: An assessment of recent developments. JRC133434 - JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis No 04/2023 available here 

• Territorial Economic Data viewer: A data integration and visualization tool (with Marques Santos, A., Conte, A., Ojala, T., Meyer, N., Santoleri, P., Shevtsova, Y., De Quinto Notario, A., Molica, F. and Lalanne, M.) - JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis No 04/2023 available here 

• Effective Tax Rates in Ireland (joint with P. Varthalitis, ESRI Research Series No. 110, 2020  (doi.org/10.26504/rs110 )

• Estimating the Cost of Irish Housing for the CPI: A Rental Equivalence Approach (with M. Allen-Coghlan, C. Coffey, M. Martinez-Cillero, K. McQuinn and C. O'Toole) - ESRI Working Paper No. 676, 2020

• A Review of the Methodologies Used in Compiling Owner-Occupiers’ Housing Indices (with Ahrens, K. Beirne, P. Economides, K. McQuinn and C. O'Toole)), ESRI Working Paper No. 651, 2020

• Dynamic Tax Revenue Buoyancy Estimates for a Panel of OECD Countries (with Y. Deli, A.Garcia-Rodriguez and P. Varthalitis), ESRI Working Paper No. 592, 2018

Selected Work in Progress: 

• Estimating Regional Production Functions: The EU NUTS-2 case (with J. Barbero-Jimenez and A.Conte) - slides of a presentation in the International Conference on Regional Science (2022) can be found here

• Assessing the Impact of the EU’s Structural Funds

• Tax Buoyancy in OECD Countries: An Extension (draft available upon request)

• Public Debt, Financial Development and Aggregate Investment: Heterogeneity and Nonlinearities