Barrington Lectures: Recent submissions

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    • Are Irish households and corporations over-indebted - and does it matter? 

      Kearns, Allan (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2004)
      Household and corporate indebtedness has soared in recent years and is now at historically high levels. The market for credit today is unrecognisable compared with just 30 years ago when, in the national economic interest, ...

    • National transport problems 

      Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1930)
      The object of this Paper is to direct attention to certain important economic facts affecting our transport system, and provide where possible a statistical measurement of those facts. The treatment is neither comprehensive ...

    • The revealed comparative advantage of Irish exports of manufactures 1969-1982 

      Thornhill, Donal J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)
      This paper outlines the results of an empirical study of the repealed comparative advantage of Irish exports of manufactures during the period 1969-1982. The concept of comparative advantage is central to the theory of ...

    • Hysteresis and the natural rate of unemployment in Ireland 

      Lee, George (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1990)
      Conventional Keynesian or Classical macroeconomic theories must be considered inadequate to explain unemployment experiences such as the Irish one. Rigidities that one might associate with fixed contracts, or even adjustment ...

    • The development of yield curves for the Irish securities market 

      Joyce, Alan (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1991)
      This paper outlines the results of work carried out for an M.Sc. Thesis in Trinity College Dublin. This work involved the investigation of the development of Yield curves for the Irish securities Market during the period ...

    • Sustainable development - the challange for Irish economic policy-makers 

      McCoy, Daniel A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1993)
      Sustainable development has become a key phrase during the last decade in development and environmental literature. Governments and international bodies have adopted the goal of sustainable development with surprising ...

    • Financial deregulation and Irish consumption behaviour 

      Lucey, Siobhan (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)
      The objective of this study is to assess whether financial deregulation has had a statistically significant effect on Irish consumption behaviour. Specifically, the study asks whether financial deregulation has affected ...

    • Innovation policy in Ireland: economic ideas and institutional diversity 

      Kane, Aidan (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)
      For academic economists, the questions `what are the sources of technological progress?? and `to what extent can policy assist innovation?? appear now to be increasingly almost co-extensive with the central question of ...

    • Schooling returns, schooling decisions and educational finance 

      Harmon, Colm (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2002)
      Given the presence of significant returns to education, it would seem logical to query why individuals choose to leave school early. This paper examines the evidence on this issue, dealing with both methodological and ...

    • Is equating market share to market power a sound economic principle? 

      Whelan, Ciara (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2003)
      There is a long history of mapping market structure into market power in economic analysis. This paper addresses the validity of this principle for both homogenous and differentiated products industries. While mapping ...

    • Profits, efficiency and Irish banks 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1994)
      This paper looks at the interaction between profits and efficiency in a sample of 17 Irish banks, for the years 1988 - 1991 inclusive. By contrast with previous techniques used for assessing economic models of efficiency, ...

    • Industrial policy, employment policy and the non-traded sector 

      O'Rourke, Kevin (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)
      This paper will critically examine the assumptions on which their [Irish policy makers] policies have been based, and suggest a more constructive role for government intervention. There are three quite distinct sections. ...

    • Reconciling rapid economic growth with environmental sustainability in Ireland 

      Clinch, J. Peter (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2001)
      The extraordinarily rapid rate of growth of the Irish economy in the past decade has provided many benefits in terms of increased living standards and higher employment levels. However, economic growth has also resulted ...

    • Evaluating labour market interventions 

      O?Neill, Donal (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2000)
      The high growth rates experienced in Ireland over the last 10 years has resulted in a tightening of the labour market which is reflected in the number of unfilled vacancies reported by firms. At the same time wage ...