Category: Commentary

March 22, 2024

Housing Affordability

I recently co-authored a study titled ‘Housing Affordability in Post-Boom Malta: the Role of the Third Sector’ which has been published as an occasional paper under the umbrella of the Foundation for Affordable Housing.

June 1, 2023

House Price Growth

Downward pressure on house prices should not be misinterpreted to mean that house prices are expected to decline.

October 26, 2022

Taxation and FDI

Following the publication of EY’s Attractiveness Survey, Who’s Who asked about my views on tax harmonisation pressures, their impact on Malta and FDI.

July 24, 2022

Housing Market Developments

Over the past year, I provided technical expertise to the Grant Thornton-Dhalia collaboration for the development of Selling and Rental House Price Indices and more.

June 22, 2022

Economic outlook amid inflation concerns

Recently shared my views with Who’s Who on the outlook for the Maltese economy and the challenges brought about by high inflation.

June 16, 2022

Economics for Competition Law

Recently delivered training to judges from Ireland, Malta, Spain and other EU member states on economics concepts that underly competition law.

March 23, 2021

Insights on wellbeing from EU-SILC data for Malta

Insights on subjective wellbeing from an analysis of data from EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions in Malta.

January 16, 2021

The Future of Maltese Industry

Some thoughts I shared as a panel discussant during a Business Breakfast organised by Government last Friday on the future of Maltese industry.

September 2, 2019

Use and misuse of investment incentives

Article originally prepared as background for the Malta Enterprise conference titled ‘EU & FDI: Love lost?’ that I co-convened in 2017.