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    • Short-term forecasting - review of recent experience 

      Durkan, J.; Kelleher, R. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Since September 1968 The Economic and Social Research Institute has published detailed forecasts on a quarterly basis of Gross National Product and its components in both value and volume terms. It is hoped in tins paper ...

    • Population trends in seventeenth-century Ireland 

      Cullen, L.M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Population estimates, while often arbitrary, merit close attention. While the estimates, often amounting to mere guess-work, reflect belief in what was happening in economic society, once formed they are frequently employed ...

    • Quarterly estimates of capacity utilisation in Ireland 

      McMahon, P.C.; Smyth, D.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1974)
      The present paper derives indices of capacity utilisation for the total transportable industries sector of the Irish economy and also for twelve sub-sectors. The indices estimated are based on the Wharton School linked-peaks ...

    • Foreign-held U.S. government securities and monetary policy in United States 

      Lucia, J.L. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1974)
      The American deficit in the balance of payments of recent years has had its counterpart in the accumulation of US government securities in the hands of foreigners. Dollars earned by foreigners have been, to a large extent, ...

    • Fiscal policy in Irish economy - leontief approach to some Keynesian objectives 

      Irvine, I.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1974)
      The objective of this paper is to examine certain aspects of the effectiveness of fiscal policy in the Irish economy within the framework of a mixed Leontief Keynesian system. Primarily, we are concerned with estimating ...

    • Patronage, tradition and modernisation - case of Irish gombeenman 

      Gibbon, Peter; Higgins, M.D. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1974)
      As part of a general movement toward the study of complex societies in political anthropology, the last few years has witnessed a proliferation of empirical studies in patron-client ties. Most of this literature has been ...

    • Men and women - next frontiers 

      Fogarty, Michael P.; Rapoport, Rhona; Rapoport, Robert (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1974)
      This paper originates from the group of studies by the authors, sponsored from 1966 by PEP and the Leverhulme Trust, on Sex Career and Family, and from a series of continuing studies by them on the family, the interweaving ...

    • Kenneth H. Connell 

      Anonymous (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1974)
      Kenneth Connell died in Belfast in September 1973 at the age of 56. Within Ireland he was probably the best known Belfast scholar in the broad field of Irish Studies, and outside Ireland almost certainly the most widely ...

    • Party loyalty and Irish voters - reply 

      Garvin, Tom; Parker, Anthony (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)
      Informed and constructive criticism is always to be welcomed. However, we feel obliged to comment on a number of points raised by Mr Gillman in his extended examination of our paper. Our inclusion of spoilt votes does ...

    • Party loyalty and Irish voters - EEC referendum as a case study 

      Gillman, C (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)
      In their paper Tom Garvin and Anthony Parker set out to describe the geographical variation of the voting pattern in the EEC Referendum, and to analyse the relationship between party loyalties and the Referendum vote. The ...

    • Measurement of levels of drinking 

      O' Connor, JF (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)
      A study that deals with the drinking behaviour of a particular group, must cope with the problem of obtaining accurate measures of the alcohol consumed by the respondents. This paper is concerned with the literature and ...

    • Survey of industrial movement in Northern Ireland between 1965 and 1969 

      Murie, A.S.; Birrell, W.D.; Hillyard, P.A.; Roche, D.J.D. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)
      Discussionof the economic situation of Northern Ireland has been dominated by persistently high rates of unemployment. Since 1936 these rates have been higher than in any other region of the United Kingdom. Since the war ...

    • Trade unions and wage inflation 

      Mulvey, C; Trevithick JA (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)
      It was a traumatic discovery for many economists interested in the problem of inflation that the Phillips Curve quite suddenly appeared to lose its predictive capacity after 1966. Many clung on to the hope that what we ...

    • Demand for petrol and tobacco in Ireland 

      Geary, P.T. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 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 ...

    • Study of church of Ireland population of Ardfert, Co Kerry, 1971 

      Robinson, HW (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      This study was made with four purposes to assist the Diocesan Synod and the Diocesan Council of Ardfert, in planning parochial re-organisation; to assist the Bishop of Limerick and Ardfert and the ministers serving under ...

    • Regression and rate of change in economic time series 

      Praetz, PD (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      This note comments on Geary's (1972) use of regression to calculate the rate of change in economic time series. His paper refers to "the rate of change", but it does not distinguish between the instantaneous rate of change, ...

    • Shift and share analysis of regional employment change in Ireland, 1951-66 

      O'Farrell, PN (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      If regional policy in Ireland is to be developed so as to become more effective, or even if the goal is to evaluate existing strategies the logical first step is to consider the underlying causes of regional disparities ...

    • Testing for serial correlation in regression when bounds-test is inconclusive 

      Harrison, MJ (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      Whenever least squares regression is used, to analyse economic time series, or cross-section data, the possibility of serially correlated disturbances presents a serious problem. It is, therefore, of considerable importance ...

    • Party loyalty and Irish voters - EEC referendum as a case study 

      Garvin, Tom; Parker, Anthony (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      Voter loyalties to the established parties in the Irish political system are quite strong, but by no means unconditional. Shifts in voter support do occur over time. The most vivid instance of the Irish voter's ability to ...

    • Explanatory hypotheses for Irish trade in manufactured goods in mid 1960s 

      Farley, Noel J.J. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      For the last twenty years, the literature on international trade has contained numerous discussions of the Heckscher-Ohlin hypothesis. In ; a world where all economies use similar technologies and have identical homogeneous ...