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The Irish market services sector: an econometric investigation
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)Using new time series data a structural econometric model of a three way disaggregation of the market services sector is constructed. The elasticities of demand for the factors of production (capital and labour) in two of ... -
The dearth of data on Irish farm wives: a critical review of the literature
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)This paper calls attention to the paucity of knowledge and statistical data on the activities of Irish farm wives. The richest sources of information are the anthropological and sociological studies of Irish rural life ... -
"Of Cabbages and Kings": restructuring in the Irish food industry
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)The food processing industry in Ireland has become more concentrated, diversified, and internationalised in recent years. To date, most Irish discussions have tended to treat the food industry as part of agriculture, ... -
Commercial policy and the current account: A Mussa-Neary approach
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)The paper examines the effect of commercial policies on the current account for the case of a small open economy, in which capital is sector-specific in the short run but mobile in the long run. In the context of a two ... -
The development of an Irish census-based social class scale
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)This paper outlines the reasons for, and steps taken, to develop an Irish census-based social class scale. The willing participation of the Central Statistics Office in reorganising its occupational categories to devise ... -
Speculative rational expectations' exchange rate dynamics with risk averse wealth owners and a monetary authority averse to exchange rate variability
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)In the analysis to follow an important aspect of speculative exchange rate movements is examined in isolation from macroeconomic feedback effects. The over-riding objective here is to investigate the effect of adherence ... -
Exchange rates, capital, output and debt when nominal interest rates are policy parameters
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)Recent years have witnessed a growing number of attempts to reduce inflation by a policy of raising nominal interest rates. Since 1988, such measures have been particularly pronounced in Australia, Canada and the United ... -
Hedging with the IFOX Long Gilt Future: A note
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)Traditional theory emphasises the risk avoidance potential of futures. An alternative hypothesis (Working's hypotheses) emphasised expected profit maximisation. Portfolio theory is a combination of the first two hypothesis, ... -
Capital adequacy requirements, deposit insurance and bank behaviour
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)As financial market regulations have been eliminated over the past decade, the fragility of the international financial system has been exposed. In turn, this has generated interest in the design of prudential regulations ... -
Occupational endogeneity and gender wage differentials for young workers: An empirical analysis using Irish data
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)This paper presents estimates of the unexplained gender wage gap for young workers controlling for occupational endogeneity. Two contrasting econometric techniques are employed to control for occupational endogeneity. One ... -
Perceptions of the causes of The Troubles in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)This paper uses data collected in the Irish Mobility Study (1973) to explore intra-Catholic patterns of differentiation, and differences in the attitudes of Catholics and Protestants, towards the causes of The Troubles. ... -
Socio-economic mortality differentials in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)Differences in mortality rates between socio-economic groups for Ireland are analysed, using the standard methodology which has been extensively applied in other countries. This involves relating data on deaths by ... -
Binomial option pricing and the conditions for early exercise: An example using foreign exchange options
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)In this paper arc derived simple and general conditions under which the value of an American option will exceed that of its European counterpart. These conditions are developed using the binomial option pricing framework. ... -
Inferring long-run supply elasticities from a short-run variable-revenue function
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ... -
Import protection as export promotion in oligopolistic markets with R & D
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)Can import protection ever act as export promotion? One reason that this is an important question is that it has often been argued that import protection is an explanation of Japanese export success since the war. Yamamura ... -
"Ireland's economy in the 1980s: Stagnation and recovery": A Comment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)During much of the 1980s the Irish national debt/GDP ratio reached 130 per cent, the current account deficit was over 15 per cent, while the government deficit remained persistently large. Since then the debt/GDP ratio has ... -
The impact of realistic and illusory control on psychological distress: A test of the model of instrumental realism
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)This paper explores the relationship between sense of control and psychological distress. Rather than providing evidence for the view that rejection of responsibility for outcomes has a beneficial effect on the mental ... -
State, family and compulsory schooling in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)Legal sanctions to compel parents into sending their children more regularly to school were widely applied in Ireland from the 1920s to the 1950s, following which the practice declined substantially and changed in nature ... -
Testing and estimation in unstable dynamic models: A case study
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)This paper discusses testing for parameter instability and estimation of time-varying parameters in the context of the Engle-Granger (1987) procedure. It reviews several developments in testing, in particular the new test ... -
Schooling and earnings in the UK ? Evidence from the ROSLA experiment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)Recent work by Angrist and Krueger (1991,1992) utilised an "experiment" to distinguish an individual's return to schooling where additional schooling is by choice compared to the return when extra schooling is compulsory. ...
