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

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    • Indirect tax reform in Ireland 

      Madden, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      The Irish tax system is characterised by a narrow base with high rates. This is true of both the direct and indirect system. This paper examines the possibilities for indirect tax reform in Ireland. A model of the economy ...

    • Indirect tax reform in Ireland: a comment 

      O'Hagan, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      This paper essentially applies Irish data to the model developed by Ahmad and Stern. It poses three interesting questions. (i) Can we find a tax change which will. increase welfare, holding total revenue constant? (ii) ...

    • Industrial development policy in Northern Ireland: an evaluation of the IDB 

      Hamilton, Douglas (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      A number of studies have highlighted the depth of the economic and social problems which have persisted in Northern Ireland for many years (NIEC, 1989; Kennedy, Giblin and McHugh, 1988; Rowthorn and Wayne, 1988). Since, ...

    • Industrial specialization and trade - Northern Ireland and Republic 

      McAleese, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      There are many ways of studying the effects of protection on the industrial structure and trade flows of the protected economy. In this paper, we do so by comparing certain features of the economies of Northern Ireland and ...

    • Industry clusters and Irish indigenous manufacturing: limits of the Porter view 

      O'Malley, Eoin; Van Egeraat, Chris (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      Studies by Porter (1990) and others find that competitive and successful industries usually occur in the form of clusters of industries which are linked together through vertical or horizontal relationships. This paper ...

    • Inefficiency in irish agriculture 

      Leddin, A (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      The purpose of this paper is to compare the relative efficiency of two similar groups of farms in Irish agriculture. Using a restricted profit function to measure economic efficiency and both of its components, price ...

    • Inequality and the crisis: the distributional impact of tax increases and welfare and public sector pay cuts 

      Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Keane, Claire; Walsh, John R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ...

    • Inferring long-run supply elasticities from a short-run variable-revenue function 

      Boyle, G. E.; Guyomard, H. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ...

    • Inflation and consumption in Ireland 

      Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      In inflationary times, consumers have limited, mainly out-of-date, information on the general level of prices. Consequently, when the general rate of inflation accelerates unexpectedly, consumers tend to mistakenly regard ...

    • Inflation and money growth: evidence from a multi-country data-set 

      Frain, John C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      Using a multi-country data set strong correlation are found between average growth rates of monetary aggregates and average inflation. The correlation remains strong when countries with higher average inflation rates are ...

    • Inflation, taxation, capital-markets and the demand for housing in Ireland 

      Irvine, Ian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of inflation on the quantity of housing demanded where mortgage interest payments are tax deductable and where capital markets set a limit upon the amount which can be ...

    • Influence of liquid assets and sectoral distribution of income on aggregate consumers behavior in Ireland 

      Kelleher, R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      The purpose of this paper is to obtain a relationship that will explain movements in the ratio of consumers' expenditure to income. In recent years movements in this ratio have had important implications for the development ...

    • Informal Cost of Dementia Care – A Proxy-Good Valuation in Ireland 

      Trépel, Dominic (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      This paper values the informal costs of dementia care in Ireland based on recently agreed national costing framework. Drawing on a survey of 270 Irish dementia caregivers, the hours of informal care per day are estimated ...

    • Information about income from interviews 

      Lavan, A; Ward, CK (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1979)
      At the core of continuing debate in social research is the question, posed succinctly by Bynner and Stribley (1979), 'How can we formulate a rigorous strategy for investigating social phenomena and how can we implement ...

    • Information theoretic approach to measurement of spatial inequality 

      Walsh, J.A.; O'Kelly, M.E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      In this paper we present some quantitative indices for measuring and comparing levels of inequality in discrete spatial distributions. The indices presented are based on the Kullback Information Measure which we consider ...

    • Informational efficiency in distressed markets: The case of European corporate bonds 

      Bariviera, Aurelio Fernández; Guercio, M. Belén; Martinez, Lisana B. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)
      This paper investigates the effect of the 2008 financial crisis on informational efficiency by carrying out a long-memory analysis of European corporate bond markets. We compute the Hurst exponent for fifteen sectorial ...

    • Input-output approach to cost-benefit-analysis of energy conservation methods 

      Henry, E.W. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In this paper is proposed a method of using Input-Output (I-O) techniques for cost-benefit (G-B) analysis, in order to compare one method of conserving energy with another. Only energy conservation will be considered, ...

    • Input-output multipliers in a small open-economy - an application to tourism 

      Ohagan, J; Mooney, D (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      Abstract: The small open economy model implies short-run supply constraints in traded and partially traded sectors ? which could significantly reduce sectoral multiplier values. As an illustration, this paper estimates ...

    • Input-substitution and technical change in irish agriculture - 1953-1977 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper seeks to find explanations for agriculture's changing resource structure over the past 25 years, using the framework of neoclassical production theory. The translog functional form was used to estimate the factor ...

    • ?Insufficient for the support of a family?: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine 

      McGregor, Pat (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase ...