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The Miriam Hederman O’Brien Gold Medal was awarded to Aedin Doris and Bruce Chapman for their paper

“Modelling Higher Education Financing Reform for Ireland”

Aedin Doris accepting the Gold Medal from Colm Kelly, Chairman of the Foundation for Fiscal Studies.

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Shortlist –

“Scenarios and Distributional Implications of a Household Wealth Tax in Ireland ” by Lawless and Lynch
http://www.finance.gov.ie/sites/default/files/161123%20wealth%20presentation_conference%2023Nov16%20Final.pdf
“An Analysis of 2015 Corporation Tax Returns and 2016 Payments” by Tancred
http://www.revenue.ie/en/about/publications/corporation-tax-receipts-2014-2015.pdf
   “Economic Evaluation of the R&D Tax Credit” by Acheson
http://www.budget.gov.ie/Budgets/2017/Documents/Tax_Expenditures_Report%202016_final.pdf
“Deterrence, Peer-Effect and Legitimacy in Anti-Corruption Policy-making: An Experimental Analysis” by Gillanders, Boly and Miettinen
https://ideas.repec.org/p/unu/wpaper/wp2016-137.html
“Government expenditure composition and fiscal policy spillovers in small open economies within a monetary union” by Clancy, Jacquinot and Lozel
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164070416300118

Highly Recommended

Irish Tax Policy in Prespective’ O’Brien and Tobin
https://taxinstitute.ie/TaxPublicationsDetails.aspx?ID=44
“Where Your Money Goes” website of the OGCIO/Department of Public Expenditure & Reform
http://www.whereyourmoneygoes.gov.ie/en/
TheJournal.ie’s Factcheck Series
http://www.thejournal.ie/factcheck-a-readers-guide-to-how-it-works-and-how-you-can-take-part-2987611-Sep2016/
 “The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty First Century” Murphy and Dukelow
https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137571373
Revenue Ready Reckoner
https://www.revenue.ie/en/corporate/information-about-revenue/statistics/index.aspx
 “Basic Income – Radical Utopia or Practical Solution” SJI Book
https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/basic-income-radical-utopia-or-practical-solution