Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Yes, €5 million or €6 million. Mr. Alan Ahearne, in evidence to the inquiry, said, "In a study I wrote with ... former colleagues, which was published on the [United States] Federal Reserve's website in September 2005, we identified no fewer than 44 episodes of house price booms and busts in 18 advanced countries since 1970."

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