Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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Dail deputies - 1969 generation
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)As the Eighteenth Dail's life drew to a close, a major change in Irish political life was anticipated. The expectations were not confined to the national mass media, although the subsequent results tempted some politicians ... -
"Dangers for Ireland of an EMU without the UK": a reply to John FitzGerald
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)In his comment on my 1997 paper John FitzGerald (JFG) makes the following points: (i) While the ESRI study on EMU, henceforth ESRI (1996), found no evidence of my hypothesis of downward nominal wage rigidity, this could ... -
Dangers for Ireland of an EMU without the UK: some calibration results
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)This paper presents a small-open-economy model calibrated to Irish data. The model can be used for many purposes. It is applied here to the EMU debate. It comes close to replicating the employment effects of sterling ... -
Demand and supply functions for Irish exports of manufactures
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)In this paper, we specify and estimate some simple quarterly econometric models of Irish manufactured exports looking at the determinants of both the demand for, and the supply of, manufactured exports. The standard ... -
Demand for food in Ireland 1947-1973
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)This paper attempts to extend the work of Casey on the demand for food in Ireland by investigating the validity of his method and by using more refined techniques of computation and the more extensive data now available. ... -
Demand for money function in Ireland - estimation and stability
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)In this paper we specify and estimate a demand for money function for Ireland. This function is then submitted to a stability test using a recently developed technique. The issue of the stability of the demand for money ... -
Demand for money: a study in testing time series for long memory and nonlinearity
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)This paper draws attention to the limitations of the standard unit root/cointegration approach to economic and financial modelling, and to some of the alternatives based on the idea of fractional integration, long memory ... -
Demand for petrol and tobacco in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)In a recent issue of this Review, W. K. O'Riordan presented estimates of the demand function for petrol in Ireland. His paper raises a number of points which call for comment - some of these points are also relevant to an ... -
Denial, polarization and massacre - a comparative-analysis of Northern Ireland and Zanzibar
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)The Zanzibar Revolution of l964 and the Northern Ireland conflict since 1968 are compared. They are similar in their polarisation processes, but differ in the level of killing, which is much higher in Zanzibar. Northern ... -
Denis Conniffe – An Obituary
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Determinants of establishment size in Irish manufacturing industries - some notes on Irish case 1931-1972
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)In recent times economic writing has examined the questions of what determines estabhshment size in manufacturing industries and whether establishment size has increased over time. In 1952 J. Jewkes argued that there was ... -
Determinants of money demand in Ireland 1971 to 1988: rounding-up the usual suspects
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)Unless some form of stable relationship between money demand and economic activity exists, there is no possibility of the monetary authorities being able to affect economic activity by changing the money supply. This fact, ... -
Determinants of pension coverage and retirement income replacement rates – Evidence from TILDA
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)In Ireland, the absence of statutory earnings-related pensions in the private sector leads to large variations in pension coverage and adequacy. This paper uses recent data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) ... -
Determinants of personal savings in ireland - econometric inquiry
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)The acceleration in the rate of economic growth in Ireland in. the last ten years or so compared with the earlier post-war years has been accompanied by a very considerable rise in the proportion of income saved. This ... -
Determinants of Vegetarianism and Meat Consumption Frequency in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)Vegetarianism is increasing in the western world. This trend can be attributed to heightened health, environmental and animal welfare concerns. In this paper we investigate the factors associated with vegetarianism and ... -
Determination of linear relations between systematic parts of variables with errors of observation the variances of which are unknown
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Given a sufficient number of instrumental variables significantly correlated with the investigational variables, consistent estimates of the coefficients of the linear relations can be determined (if they exist), without ... -
Devaluation and competitiveness in a small open economy: Ireland 1987-1993
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)This paper studies market expectations of a devaluation of the Irish pound from 1987 to 1993, and relates them to the evolution of Ireland's competitiveness over the same period. Much of the volatility of expectations of ... -
Devaluation expectations and fundamentals: some new evidence for Ireland 1979-1994
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)This paper uses a Probit model to link economic fundamentals with devaluation expectations for the Irish pound over the period 1979-1994. The estimates relate to both the probability as well as the size of an expected ... -
Devaluation expectations for the IR#/DM in the EMS: some empirical estimates and their relation to fundamentals
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)This paper presents results for devaluation expectations for the IR#/DM for the period of EMS membership. The methodology employed produces estimates of expected rates of devaluation by adjusting the interest rate ... -
Did the Celtic Tiger decrease socio-economic differentials in perinatal mortality in Ireland?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)Irish perinatal mortality rates have been falling steadily for a number of decades but evidence from the 1980s showed pronounced differentials in mortality rates across socio-economic groups. Between 1995 and 2006 Irish ...