01558cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF009592 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451818864 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Ireland : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007. 1 online resource (44 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This Selected Issues paper discusses Ireland's trade and financial linkages with key partner countries. The paper uses a vector autoregression to examine the impact of shocks to partner country GDP and shocks to Irish competitiveness on Irish GDP. Two main findings are that shocks to U.S. GDP have a much larger impact on the variance of Irish GDP than shocks to the euro area or the United Kingdom. The paper also uses the IMF's Global Fiscal Model to compare the effects of alternative fiscal adjustment strategies on employment and growth. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2007/326 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2007/326/002.2007.issue-326-en.xml IMF e-Library