Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/293909 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital [ISSN:] 2199-1235 [Volume:] 54 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 199-221
Publisher: 
Duncker & Humblot, Berlin
Abstract: 
The performance of the Irish economy stands out across western economies over the past two decades as the later years of its "Celtic Tiger" phase gave way to a sharp and extremely large economic downturn between 2008 and 2012. This severe recession has been followed by a Lazarus-style economic recovery in recent years. This paper examines the role played by the credit-driven housing net worth channel in the path that Irish economic performance has taken between 2002 and 2019 by specific reference to developments in the domestic labour market. We find a significant positive relationship between housing net worth and employment growth in Ireland, manifesting itself through the non-traded sector of the economy between 2007 and 2012. This followed the emergence and then bursting of a substantial credit-fuelled housing market bubble in the Irish residential property market. Our analysis indicates no evident link between economic activity and a credit-driven housing net worth channel in recent years. This may reflect market and regulatory responses to the banking crisis-led recession of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Subjects: 
Household Wealth
House Prices
Employment
JEL: 
E24
E32
E44
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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