Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260186 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2016:13
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
A major issue in Irish economic history is the lack of national accounts before the interwar period. This paper constructs new annual estimates of real GDP between 1842 and 1913 based on a novel two-stage econometric approach. Our results show that while living standards approximately tripled in this period, development was uneven with contractions in economic activity not only during the Great Famine but also between the late 1890s and the First World War. As a proof of concept, we also apply our methodology to Swedish data. The resulting estimates closely match existing historical national accounts.
Subjects: 
Ireland
GDP
Famine
Historical national accounts
JEL: 
C38
E01
N13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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