Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; I. Household Consumption, Wealth, and Saving; A. Introduction; Figure; Figure 1: A Credit Credit-Fuelled Boom and Its Unwinding; B. The Consumption-Balance Sheet Nexus; Figure 2: The Turn of the Credit Cycle; Figure 3. Household Debt to Gross Disposable Income; Figure 4. Household Leverage Ratio; Figure 5. Analytical Framework; Figure 6: Household Borrowing, Saving, and Growth; Figure 7: Decline in Income Versus Reduction in Debt; C. The Outlook for Household Saving and Consumption; Figure 8: Composition of Household Net Wealth
  • Figure 9: Changes to Household Assets and LeverageFigure 10: Decomposition of Household Savings, 2011; Figure 11: Household Saving Rate Forecast; Table; Table 1: Panel Regression of the Household Savings Rate (1980-2010); Figure 12: Household Debt Around the Cycle Peak; D. Conclusion; Figure 13. Growth and Debt Under Different Scenarios; References; II. Access to Credit, Debt Overhang, and Economic Recovery: The Irish Case; A. Introduction; B. Overall Credit Conditions; Table 1. Financial Constraints, Firm Size, and Banking Crisis, 2002-10
  • Table 2. Firm investment, sales, cash flow, and debt: 2002-2010Table 3. Access to finance of SMEs, April 2011 to March 2012; C. Lending Standards and Credit Conditions Disentangled; Table 4. Supply and demand of loans to non-financial companies, Dec 2002
  • Mar 2012; D. Options for dealing with reduced access to finance for SMEs; Table 5. Supply and demand of household loans for house purchase, Dec 2002
  • Mar 2012; E. Conclusions; References; Appendix Table. Selected government schemes to support SME lending
  • III. Medium-Term Fiscal Consolidation in Ireland: Growth-Friendly, Targeted, SustainableA. Introduction; B. Revenue and Expenditure Trends and the Consolidation Mix; Figure 1. Ireland's Revenue and Expenditures (percent of GDP); Figure 2. Sources of Expenditure Increase During the 2000s; Figure 3. Income Tax Bands and Statutory Rates: 1985-2012; Table 1. Ireland's Expenditure and Revenue Ratios vis-à-vis Comparator Groups; Figure 4. Expenditure-to-GDP, GNP ratios
  • Ireland Vs OECD; Figure 5. Mix of Consolidation Measures, 2009-15
  • Figure 6. Projected Revenue and Expenditure Ratios Through 2015C. High-Quality Options for Revenue Base-Broadening; Figure 7. Ireland Vs. OECD
  • Level and Structure of Revenues; Table 2. Composition of General Government Revenues; Table 3. Ireland's Personal Income Tax Structure; Table 4. The Level and Structure of Property Taxation-Ireland vs. OECD; Figure 8. Revenues from Environmentally Related Taxation (percent of GDP); Figure 9. Revenues from Environmentally Related Taxation (percent of total revenues); D. Options for More Targeted and Efficient Expenditure