Quarterly Economic Commentary Winter 2019

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The RTB Rent Index, Quarter 3 2020. ESRI Indices Report December 2020.

This report is produced by the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and provides rental indicators (the Rent Index) generated to track price developments in the Irish market. The analysis in this report presents rental indices on a quarterly basis covering the period between Q3 2007 and Q3 2020. It must be noted that the period since the onset of the pandemic has seen the introduction and easing of restrictions around rental price growth in line with the public health measures. This is likely to have had an effect on the trend between the second and third quarters

Quarterly Economic Commentary, Summer 2020. ESRI Forecasting Series May 2020.

Given the high degree of uncertainty about the spread of COVID-19, our Summer Quarterly Economic Commentary assesses the future prospects for the Irish economy under three different scenarios: Baseline (“New normal with ongoing physical distancing”, Severe (“Second wave requiring strict lockdown”) and Benign (“Successful disease suppression”)

Quarterly Economic Commentary Spring 2020

COVID-19 poses the single largest challenge to the Irish economy since the financial crisis. The response of authorities both domestically and internationally to the spread of the virus, while absolutely necessary from a general health perspective, will result in millions of jobs being lost globally in the coming weeks and months and a sharp contraction in global economic activity. The limitations on international travel and the effective sealing-off of entire countries will have profound implications for cross-country trade and commerce