Quarterly Economic Commentary, Autumn 2018

Abstract

The Irish economy continues to perform significantly better than most OECD economies and is once again likely to register the fastest growth rate in the Euro Area in 2018. Indeed in the present Commentary we have revised up our forecast for GDP from 4.7 per cent to 8.9 per cent in 2018. Our forecast for 2019 has also been revised upwards to 4.5 per cent. In preparing forecasts for 2019, we assume that a European Economic Agreement (EEA) will exist between the UK and the EU after March 2019.