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Gerard Hughes & Micheal Collins receiving their medals from Colm Kelly, Chairman of the Foundation

MIRIAM HEDERMAN O’BRIEN PRIZE 2017

 

WINNER

 “ Supporting Pension Contributions Through the Tax System: Outcomes, Costs and Examining Reform”
Micheal Collins & Gerard Hughes

 

Shortlist:

“Analysis of Low Income Taxpayers and Employer Profitability: Evidence from Tax Records”

Kennedy, Stanley and McGuinness

 

“UK EU Exit: Trade Exposures of Sectors of the Irish Economy in a European Context”

Donal Smith, Mike Fahy, Gavin Murphy, Brendan O’Connor

 

“Gifts and Inheritances in Ireland”

Martina Lawless & Donal Lynch

 

“The Politics of Capitalist Diversity in Europe: Explaining Ireland’s Divergent Recovery from the Euro Crisis”
Aiden Regan & Samuel Brazys

 

Chapter 20 “Corporation Tax Receipts” 2016 Report of the Accounts of the Public Services

Seamus Mc Carthy, Mahin Fitzpatrick, Georgina O’Mahony

 

Highly Commended:

“Establishment of a Parliamentary Budget Office”

Annette Connolly, Denise Connolly, Keith Fitzgerald, Jacopos Bedogni,  Niall Ó Cléirigh & Barry Comerford

 

“The Irish Economy”
Blog post & Commentary
Seamus Coffey

 

“The Economy of Ireland”

Book
John O’Hagan & Francis O’Toole

 

 “A Non-Employment Index for Ireland”

Stephen Byrne &Thomas Confrey

 

“Sunday Business Post Columns”

Stephen Kinsella

 

“The Great Irish Sell Off”

TV documentary

Presenter:  Ian Kehoe Researchers:  Jack Horgan-Jones and Paula Shields

Producer/Director:  Máire Kearney Executive Producer: Sean MacGhiolla Phadraig