Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Germany"
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A life cycle labour supply model with taxes estimated on German panel data: the case of parallel preferences
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)We estimate Frisch labour supply functions for married women using information on desired hours, under the assumptions that these are based on a smooth convex approximation of the budget constraint. The minimum distance ... -
Interdependencies among the Irish, British and German stock markets
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)Interdependencies between the Irish stock market and two other stock markets, namely the United Kingdom and Germany, are assessed. The indices used are the ISEQ, the FTSE-100, and the FAZ. The application of cointegration ... -
Measuring the contribution of product quality to competitiveness: a note on theory and policy
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)In this note estimates are given for the importance of quality as an explanation of the comparative productivity shortfall of Northern Ireland (NI) firms relative to their West German counterparts and the method of estimation ... -
The Causality Between Economic Growth and Immigration in Germany and Switzerland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)This paper analyses the relationship between immigration and the economic growth in Germany and Switzerland during the period 1970-2005 by using a cointegration approach. Both countries have gone through a similar learning ... -
The industry response to macroeconomic shocks in the UK, Germany and France and the convergence debate
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)In this paper, we investigate the response of stock returns at an industry level to macroeconomic shocks for the UK, Germany and France. The betas between the stock returns and the macroeconomic factors provide a metric ...