Economic and Social Review: Recent submissions
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Are Irelands social security payments too small - comment
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)The purpose of this short article is two-fold. First, to cast some doubt on the way in which Dr. Geary reached his conclusions concerning social security payments in Ireland and, secondly, to extend the study to take ... -
Elasticity of demand for petrol in Ireland - reply
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)I thank Dr. Arthur for his interesting and thoughtful comment. I am afraid that he rather misquotes me when he says that I estimated the elasticity as being between -1.2 and -1-7. My interpretation (stated in the conclusions) ... -
Elasticity of demand for petrol in Ireland - comment
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)In an article in this journal (April 1972) W . K. O'Riordan estimated the price elasticity of petrol to be between minus 1.2 and minus 1.7. These values are surprisingly high. Petrol is expensive but the other major expenses ... -
Intra-unionist disputes in Northern Ireland house of commons, 1921-72
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)This is a report on a research project carried out in 1972, and again in 1973, by students taking the special subject in the Government of Ireland, in the Political Science Department at the Queen's University of Belfast. ... -
Poverty research and policy analysis in United States - implications for Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)Poverty in Ireland is frequently alluded to, by journalists, politicians, and social scientists. Though its existence is obvious and widespread, in fact not much is known statistically or analytically about Irish poverty; ... -
Some determinants of labour mobility in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)Recent planning throughout Europe has increasingly emphasised the importance of growth centres in development strategies. New and expanded towns are proposed not solely as solutions to problems of overspill, congestion and ... -
Relative efficiency of regression using original data or first differences - case of autocorrelated disturbances
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)In two recent articles, Geary and Tillman have compared the efficiency of using data in absolute form or in the form of first differences in regression analysis of economic time series. Both authors take a highly unfavourable ... -
Money market strategy or monetary aggregates - analysis of recent federal reserve policy
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)In recent years the critics o f monetary policy have placed increasing emphasis on the need to control monetary aggregates. This emphasis has resulted from what appears to be a bias on the part of the Federal Reserve in ... -
Relative efficiency of RAS versus least squares methods of updating input-output structures, as adjudged by application to Irish data
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)The following paper is both theoretical and empirical, being concerned with RAS and Least Squares (LS) methods of updating Irish inter-industry structures from 1964 to 1968. Part 1 has a resume of the published papers [1] ... -
Identification of cause and effect in simple least squares regression
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1973)Given data ( X , Yt, t=i, z, . . . , T, can we distinguish which variable is causal? -
Regional planning in Ireland - case for concentration - reappraisal
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)Few development issues in Ireland have generated so much controversy and emotion as the concept of spatially polarised growth; yet the continuing discussion has often been confused by a notable failure to define terms and ... -
Note on alternative methods of logistic projection
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)Engel curves exhibiting high income elasticities at low levels of income which then decline with income to produce finite per capita saturation levels have been widely used in studies of consumer durable goods (Brown and ... -
From division to dissension - Irish trade unions in 1930s
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)The special conference of April 1936 directed the national executive of the Irish Trade Union Congress to 'forthwith set up a Commission to inquire into and report on the terms of reference to the unions.' -
Real and monetary effects of an exogenous change in interest rates - rejoinder
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)Honohan seems to be treating my model as being both analytically and operationally equivalent to the standard Mundell open economy model. This I believe to be a misconception. -
Note on real and monetary effects of an exogenous change in interest rates
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)The interesting article by D. Rodney Thom (Economic and Social Review, January 1974) seems to contain a misleading assertion which makes his statistical results difficult to interpret. Thom's main thesis is that, in the ... -
Pseudo-bivariate structure of 2 x 2 contingency table - preliminary analysis
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)The paper by R. C. Geary on the comparative sensitivity of tests of significance to sample size contains the interesting suggestion that any 2 x 2 contingency table might be thought of as a sample realisation of a bivariate ... -
Problems in specification and interpretation of central bank reaction functions
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)The last decade, beginning with the work of Teigen, has seen widespread recognition of the need to 'endogenise' the supply of money in order to obtain consistent (i.e. asymptotically unbiased) estimates of the parameters ... -
Intra-urban variations in retail grocery prices
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)Variations in retail grocery prices is an issue that engenders considerable interest in many sections of the community, for a variety of economic and political reasons. Since a substantial proportion of a housewife's weekly ... -
Agricultural head rents, pre-famine and post-famine
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)'No country can ever be held in just estimation', proclaimed Arthur Young in 1780, 'when the rental of it is unknown': and Young , in his Tour in Ireland, proceeded to estimate the rental of this country. His was the ... -
From division to dissension - Irish trade unions in nineteen-thirties
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1974)In 1930 the Irish labour movement divided, the Irish Trade Union Congress forming one organisation and the Labour Party another. It was an amicable recognition, despite reservations and regrets, that Connolly's syndicalism ...
