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Ronan Lyons

Dublin
As seen in: Nature, Wiley Online Library, PLOS Medicine, PLOS ONE, Archives of Disease in Childhood, BMJ Open Respiratory Research, Emergency Medicine Journal, MDPI, Substack, University of Oxford and
Housing, cities, history. Often at the same time. Professor @tcdeconomics, Co-Director @ceph_ie. Dad of 3, husband of 1. Soccer/rugby fan.
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A tale of two rentals: What rooms tell us about Ireland’s supply problems

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By Ronan Lyons
| The Currency
When supply improves, prices fall back – that’s one of the baselines of economics. More demand has the opposite effect. And yet the latest Daft.ie Rental Report, covering the first quarter of 2026, presents what looks like a contradiction. On one hand, the national average for open-market rents rose by 4.4 per cent between January and March – the largest quarterly increase in a data series that stretches back to 2002. The quarterly increase even eclipses the surge in rents during 2022.
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Rental Prices and the Cost of Living in the United States, 1914-2006

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By Ronan Lyons, Allison Shertzer, Rowena Gray
| philadelphiafed.org
We show that this “falling real rents” puzzle can be explained by the evolving treatment of shelter in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). In this paper, we construct a new, methodologically consistent shelter price series using the Historical Housing Prices (HHP) Project rental index. We also construct a revised set of shelter weights going back to 1914 and combine it with the price series to create an alternate CPI that applies the owners’ equivalent rent concept of shelter consistently across time.
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The rental crisis was built over a century — rent control reform alone won’t fix it

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By Ronan Lyons
| The Currency
Ireland has changed its rent control system in a meaningful way. Under new rules, landlords will be allowed reset rents to market levels between tenancies. This is a significant departure from the Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) regime of the past decade, which regulated rents not just within a tenancy but across them. On that narrow point, the reform is welcome and overdue.
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