Browsing Economic and Social Review by Author "Boyle, G. E."

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    • A MAIDS model of Irish meat demand 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      This paper estimates the demand for meats in Ireland using the newly developed Modified Almost Ideal Demand System or MAIDS model of Cooper and McLaren (1992). This model nests the Almost Ideal System as a special case and ...

    • An Applied Computable Equilibrium (ACE) model of the CAP cereal policy reforms: the case of Ireland 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      In this paper an Applied Computable Equilibrium (ACE) model is constructed to examine the economic impact of the CAP (Mac Sharry) cereal policy reforms. The model is applied to Irish data. The reforms comprise three elements: ...

    • Hall-Roeger tests of market power in Irish manufacturing industries 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      The Hall-Roeger methodology for the testing of market power is applied to Irish manufacturing industries for the period 1991-1999. The paper adapts their methodology to permit discrimination between input and output-price-based ...

    • Inferring long-run supply elasticities from a short-run variable-revenue function 

      Boyle, G. E.; Guyomard, H. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      Recent papers by Kulatilaka (1987, 1985) Squires (1987) and Hertel (1987), using the seminal exposition of Brown and Christensen (1981), which in turn is heavily derivative of the work of Lau (1976, 1978), have emphasised ...

    • Input-substitution and technical change in irish agriculture - 1953-1977 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper seeks to find explanations for agriculture's changing resource structure over the past 25 years, using the framework of neoclassical production theory. The translog functional form was used to estimate the factor ...

    • On and off the frontier: the impact of taxes on growth 

      Boyle, G. E.; McCarthy, Thomas G. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      In the context of explaining inter-country growth rates, empirical work to date finds a negligible role for the parameters of a country's taxation system. In our opinion, part of the explanation for this result is that ...