Research

▶ An assessment of property level rental price growth in Ireland with Rachel Slaymaker and Kate Devane, published as ESRI-RTB Jointly-Published Report No. 10, December 2024

report and slides 

▶ Irish enterprise digitalisation: A cross-country exploration with Karen Hogan and Conor O'Toole, published as QEC Research Note RN20240201, April 2024

research note

▶ What drives SME investment in digitalisation? Micro-data evidence for Ireland with Conor O'Toole, ESRI Working Paper, April 2024

paper

▶ Firm-level attitudes and actions to the “Twin Transition” challenges of digitalisation and climate change with Martina Lawless, published in The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 55 No. 1, Spring (2024)

paper , working paper , online appendix

▶ Note on the 1988-2024 update of 'Concording EU Trade and Production Data over Time'  

note , input files

▶ How has Brexit changed EU-UK trade flows?  with Martina Lawless, published in European Economic Review, January 2024

paper , working paper , replication code (zip) , replication data (zip), featured in Politico EU, The Guardian, Irish Times, RTÉ, Financial Times

▶ Structure of international goods trade for Ireland and Northern Ireland  with Martina Lawless, published as ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series 117, July 2023

report , featured in BBC Northern Ireland, Irish Times, RTÉ

▶ SME financial distress and the macroeconomic recovery: A microsimulation approach with Martina Lawless, Gerard McGuinness and Conor O'Toole, available as ESRI Working Paper 718, January 2022

paper-policy version , journal version (pdf) , slides (pdf) , featured in Irish Times, Irish Independent

▶ Initial impact of Brexit on Ireland-UK trade flows with Eimear Flynn and Martina Lawless. ESRI Working Paper 714, December 2021

paper , featured in Irish Times, The Journal, RTÉ, Politico EU, Irish Independent

▶ Cost of doing business during COVID-19: SME investment in public health compliance. With Martina Lawless and Conor O'Toole, ESRI Working Paper No. 701, May 2021

paper , slides (pdf)

▶ New survey evidence on COVID-19 and Irish SMEs: Measuring the impact and policy response. With Conor O'Toole, Fergal McCann, Martina Lawless and John McQuinn. Published in 'The Economic and Social Review', Volume 52, Issue 2, Summer 2021

paper , slides (pdf) , featured in Irish Times,RTÉ  

▶ The Great Trade Collapse and the determinants of UK export margins: A cohort‐ and firm‐level matching approach with Mustapha Douch, Terence Huw Edwards, Jan Van Hove. Published in 'The World Economy', Volume 44, Issue 10, October 2021

paper 

▶ Recent trends in SME investment in Ireland: exploring the pandemic and barriers to growth With Leona Cantillon, Eric Gargan, Martina Lawless, Conor O'Toole. ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series 113. July 2022

report , featured in Irish Times

▶ Exchange rate pass-through to trade prices after the Brexit referendum

paper , Stata code (zip) , data (zip 85 MB)

▶ Do data policies impact the productivity performance of firms and industries? with Martina Francesca Ferracane and Erik van der Marel, published in Review of International Economics, Volume 28, Issue 3, August 2020

paper , working paper , VoxEU column

▶ Services in the European Union: What kinds of regulatory policies enhance productivity? with Erik van der Marel and Mariana Iooty, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7919, 2016

paper , World Bank EU RER report

▶ Dynamics in European exports in times of crisis: The impact of growth at home and abroad with Huw Edwards and Jan Van Hove, published in Romanian Journal of Fiscal Policy, Volume 6, Issue 1, January-June 2015

paper + online appendices (pdf) , slides (pdf)

▶ Assessing intra-industry trade in times of economic disintegration with Huw Edwards and Jan Van Hove

paper (pdf)

▶ Estimating trade creation and trade diversion of economic integration agreements (work in progress)

draft (pdf) , slides (pdf)

▶ Adjustment process of economic integration agreements (work in progress)

draft (pdf)