BIS central bankers’ speeches  3  Figure 2 shows that Irish-resident entities account for a sizeable proportion of funds activity in the euro area, such that Ireland plays an important role as an international financial centre for the investment funds industry.
However, the writers who attracted me to economics – Arthur Lewis was a prime example – understood that theory was more than a set of equations and some algebraic manipulation, and that empirical economics was not about “proving” a theory, but rather about using data to enrich one’s intuition about how the economy works.