Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title

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    • Housing Bubbles and Monetary Policy: A Reassessment 

      O'Meara, Graeme (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)

    • Housing requirements for Northern-Ireland 

      Roche, D.J.D.; Murie, A.; Birrell, W.D.; Hillyard, P.A. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      This article summarises an extensive analysis of housing statistics based on Census data and the Northern Ireland quarterly Housing Returns - an analysis which allows us to assess the adequacy of the proposed programme.

    • Housing tenure in Ireland 

      Somerville, R. A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)
      This paper investigates the sources of the extremely high level of owner occupation in Ireland. After using census data to explore the evolution of this phenomenon, the paper makes a cross-country comparison of owner ...

    • How are Irish households coping with their mortgage repayments? information from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions 

      McCarthy, Yvonne; McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      This paper uses information contained within the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) to examine the ability of Irish households to sustain their mortgage repayments. We calculate mortgage repayment to income ...

    • How competitive is Irish manufacturing? 

      Cerra, Valerie; Soikkeli, Jarkko; Saxena, Sweta C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      Ireland experienced significant competitiveness gains in the 1990s on the basis of the standard manufacturing unit labour cost-based measure of the real effective exchange rate. A few sectors mostly dominated by multinational ...

    • How reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for migration research? 

      Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)
      Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the ...

    • How useful is core inflation for forecasting headline inflation? 

      Bermingham, Colin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)
      The paper constructs various core inflation measures. These include various trimmed means using disaggregated data and a structural VAR estimate of core inflation for Ireland. The ability of these core inflation measures ...

    • Human capital and economic growth - United Kingdom, 1951-1961 

      Moreh, J (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      In recent years, economists have been turning their exploratory energies in increasing measure towards investment in human-beings, such as formal education, post-school training, health, migration and information. Of these, ...

    • Identification of cause and effect in simple least squares regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      Given data ( X , Yt, t=i, z, . . . , T, can we distinguish which variable is causal?

    • Identification of individual aberrations in least squares regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      In single equation LS regression the common practice is. to test goodness-of- fit by the standard error o f estimate s and probable absence, of residual autoregression by the Durbin-Watson d, or the more recent count Of ...

    • Identifying economically vulnerable groups as the economic crisis emerged 

      Whelan, Christopher T.; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      A frequent refrain during recent debates on welfare cuts and tax increases has related to the need to ?protect the vulnerable?. However, it is far from clear that a consensus exists on which individuals or groups are to ...

    • Identifying priorities for building distinct information societies 

      Melody, Willam H. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
      The information society discussion to date has been dominated by vision statements from national governments and promotional campaigns by the major suppliers of information/communication hardware and software. They have ...

    • Identifying the source of mean and volatility spillovers in Irish equities: a multivariate GARCH analysis 

      Gallagher, Liam A.; Twomey, Cian E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      This paper, using a multivariate VAR-GARCH analysis, examines the role of the UK stock market in the price behaviour of the ten largest Irish stocks. We identify the source of mean and volatility spillovers in Irish stocks ...

    • Identity, collective beliefs, and the allocation of resources 

      Jeitschko, Thomas D.; O'Connell, Seamus; Pecchenino, Rowena A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)
      Humans are social creatures that interact in a number of different and at least partially independent social settings, such as work, home, social and political organisations, and church. In each setting one has an identity, ...

    • Impact of EEC enlargement on Ireland trade in manufactured goods 

      Gormely, Patrick J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)
      The study examines the likely impact on Ireland's trade in manufactures of the accessions of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EECSITC3-digit trade data (for 1978-1983) for manufactures are used to compute two indices: ...

    • Impact of EEC enlargement on Ireland trade in manufactured goods 

      Gormley, Patrick J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)
      The study examines the likely impact on Ireland's trade in manufactures of the accessions of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EECSITC3-digit trade data (for 1978-1983) for manufactures are used to compute two indices: ...

    • Impact of lower preference votes on Irish parliamentary elections, 1922-1977 

      Gallagher, Michael (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1979)
      This paper examines the electoral impact of the counting and transfer of lower preference votes on Dail elections since 1922. The relationship between transfers and constituency size is assessed, and it is shown that a ...

    • Import dependence of the Irish economy during decade of '60s 

      Farley, Noel J.J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      Was there a movement to growing import dependence in the Irish economy during the 1960s? Why? These are the central questions for which answers will be sought in this paper. Various measures of import dependence will be ...

    • Import protection as export promotion in oligopolistic markets with R & D 

      Leahy, Dermot (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ...

    • Imprisonment and the crime rate in Ireland 

      O'Sullivan, Eoin; O'Donnell, Ian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      Between 1995 and 1999, the number of indictable crimes recorded in Ireland dropped by 21 per cent and the daily average prison population rose by 33 per cent. The Government has claimed that a causal relationship exists ...