Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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Estimating the price overcharge from cartelisation of the Irish automobile industry
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)Price coordination can be very harmful for consumers. Yet, even if a cartel is proved to exist, and successful in enforcement, how do we estimate damages or price overcharges to consumers? We build a structural model of ... -
Estimating the rate of return to education using microsimulation
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)This paper attempts to use microsimulation methods to compare returns to education in four European countries, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom. This paper broadens the type of measure used to measure the ... -
Estimation of short-run effects of fiscal policy in Ireland, 1960-1970
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)Apart from input-output studies, little effort appears to have been made to construct general-purpose macro-economic models of the Irish economy. A paper by Brendan Walsh is one exception. (See his "Econometric Macro-Model ... -
Estimation of the parameter in the discrete "Taxi" problem, with and without replacement
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)In the continuous uniform distribution [0,N], the Maximum Likelihood estimator of N is known to possess high mean square error for large samples. This paper examines this issue in the discrete case, without replacement ... -
Evaluating opportunities when people are uncertainty averse
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)We consider the problem of ranking sets of alternatives. Standard approaches to this problem regard the addition of an alternative to a set containing one element as enhancing choice. We argue that this monotonicity axiom ... -
Evaluating social-welfare expenditures - how well does the system perform in reducing poverty
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)The results of the ESRI Survey of Income Distribution, Poverty and Usage of State services are used to assess the success of the Irish social welfare system in alleviating poverty. About 10 per cent of persons are found ... -
Evaluating state programmes: ?natural experiments? and propensity scores
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)Evaluations of programmes ? for example, labour market interventions such as employment schemes and training courses ? usually involve comparison of the performance of a treatment group (recipients of the programme) with ... -
Evaluation of Irish labour courts effectiveness
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)Government participation in the settlement of industrial disputes in Ireland is focused in the Labour Court. Created in 1946, the Court combines conciliation with an investigation and recommendation machinery. The former ... -
Evaluation of the ratio of unemployment rates as an indicator of fair employment: a critique
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)A recent study by Gudgin and Breen (1996) criticised the use of the high and stable ratios of Catholic to Protestant unemployment rates in Northern Ireland as a measure of the existence and extent of job discrimination. ... -
Exchange rates, capital, output and debt when nominal interest rates are policy parameters
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ... -
Exchange-rate dynamics and the term structure of interest-rates
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1988)This paper examines the nature of the relationship which exists between the dynamics of exchange rate adjustments and the term structure of interest rates. In the absence of anticipated economic disturbances, there exists ... -
Exchange-rates - real and monetary factors
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)Precis: In this paper we explore several alternative models of the exchange rate which highlight the role played by real and monetary factors in exchange rate determination, and the short-and long-run effects of exchange ... -
Expectations hypothesis and theory of inflation - appraisal
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)One of the most interesting and significant developments to have emerged in recent ..years from the discussion of the nature of the 'Phillips Curve' has centred around the role of expectations in the inflationary process. ... -
Expenditure patterns and welfare effects of inflation - estimates of a true cost-of-living index
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)Inflation can have two principal kinds of redistributive effects. Even when relative prices are constant, the position of creditors worsens vis-a-vis that of debtors, unless the inflation is perfectly anticipated. If ... -
Explaining the volume of North-South trade in Ireland: a gravity model approach
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)We address the question of whether the volume of manufacturing trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is more or less than might be expected in the light of international experience. We estimate a gravity ... -
Explanatory hypotheses for Irish trade in manufactured goods in mid 1960s
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 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 ... -
Exploratory comparative study of Catholic and Protestant farmers in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)The present paper stems from an examination of data from those Censuses of Population of the Republic of Ireland which have incorporated a Religious enquiry. Summary data for the whole country in these censuses indicate ... -
Exploring the Steady-State Relationship Between Credit and GDP for a Small Open Economy–The Case Of Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)The rapid increase in credit in an economy is now commonly perceived to be one of the leading indicators of financial instability. This view has been reinforced by the aftermath of the international financial crisis, which ... -
Exploring Trends in the Rate of Caesarean Section in Ireland 1999-2007
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)This paper explores levels and trends in the prevalence of Caesarean section delivery in Ireland between 1999 and 2007. Over this period the Caesarean section rate for singleton births in Ireland increased by over one ... -
Extensions to a quantitative analysis of the degree of integration between Irish and UK financial markets
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)In a recent issue of this Review, Browne and O'Connell (1978) find a close relationship between the Irish and the UK interest rates simultaneous in time with the magnitudes of the UK fluctuation "completely transmitted ...