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

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    • Political-attitudes, partisanship and social-structures in northern-ireland 

      Mcallister, I (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      Abstract: This paper applies multivariate analysis to 1978 survey data to examine the attitude structure of the Northern Ireland electorate and its effect on partisanship. Four political attitudes are extracted: two communal ...

    • Politics and administrative practice in the Irish information society 

      Komito, Lee (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
      The Information Society is expected to transform political relations in industrial societies, but the extent to which transformations have already taken place is often underestimated. In the past, Irish politicians provided ...

    • Politics and fiscal policy under Lemass: a theoretical appraisal 

      Barry, Frank (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      Lemass rejected Whitaker?s recommendations that direct taxes be reduced and public investment shifted from social to productive areas. This was arguably done for political reasons and because Lemass believed that it might ...

    • Politics and social partnership: flexible network governance 

      Hardiman, Niamh (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      This paper reassesses the relationship between social partnership and the broader Irish policy process. What has developed may be conceptualised as ?flexible network governance?. While pay regulation may be less strongly ...

    • Population trends in late 19th and early 20th-century ireland - a local study 

      Breen, Richard (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)
      Abstract: The investigation of Irish demographic trends in the half century following the Famine has generally been conducted using figures relating to large areas. In this paper an attempt is made to examine the applicability ...

    • Population trends in seventeenth-century Ireland 

      Cullen, L.M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)
      Population estimates, while often arbitrary, merit close attention. While the estimates, often amounting to mere guess-work, reflect belief in what was happening in economic society, once formed they are frequently employed ...

    • Portfolio effects and firm size distribution: carbonated soft drinks 

      Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      We use rich brand level retail data to demonstrate that the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is mainly an outcome of the degree to which firms own a portfolio of brands across segments of the market, and ...

    • Portfolio equilibrium and monetary policy in Ireland 

      Leddin, Anthony (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      The introduction of exchange controls in 1978 and the exchange rate uncertainty associated with Ireland's entry into the European Monetary System (EMS) in 1979 gave rise to the possibility of a reduction in the degree of ...

    • Poverty and the distribution of income in Northern Ireland 

      McGregor, Pat P. L.; Borooah, Vani K. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1991)
      This paper uses the 1985 Family Expenditure Survey sample to examine the extent and incidence of poverty in Northern Ireland and to explore the relationship with the distribution of income. The study concludes that incomes ...

    • Poverty in Ireland, 1987-1994: a stochastic dominance approach 

      Madden, David; Smith, Fiona (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty line. This analysis is carried out for Ireland using Household ...

    • Poverty research and policy analysis in United States - implications for Ireland 

      Tussing, AD (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 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; ...

    • Preliminary-study of credit rationing in Ireland 

      Browne, Francis X.; O'Connell, Thomas (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      In their seminal study of credit rationing, Jaffee and Modigliani (1969) hypothesised that an intensification of the extent of credit rationing will manifest itself in a movement in banks' loan portfolios toward prime ...

    • Price determination in Ireland - effects of changes in exchange-rates and exchange-rate regimes 

      Callan, Tim; Fitzgerald, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      This paper finds that the wholesale price of Irish manufacturing output is closely tied to foreign prices in the long run; domestic wage costs generally do not exert a significant influence. In the short run changes in ...

    • Price elasticity of demand for tobacco in ireland 

      Oriordan, Wk (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1969)
      This short study is an attempt to estimate the price elasticity of demand for tobacco in Ireland. Tobacco was chosen, partly because of its importance as a source of tax revenue, and partly because of certain simplifying ...

    • Price-change calculations based on 3 forms of input-output model - illustration from estimates of impact of equal pay on Irish industry 

      Henry, EW; Walsh, BM (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      The official Input-Output (I-O) Tables for 1964 provide us with a 17 sector model in Appendix Tables A1, A2 and A3. In this version of the model, similar imports are distributed along the rows of the transactions matrix ...

    • Pricing to market, exchange rate changes and the transmission of inflation 

      Fitz Gerald, John D.; Shortall, Fergal (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      This paper examines the short-run pass through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices in Ireland. Reflecting the importance of exchange rate expectations, we develop a model of inflation where the deviation of the UK ...

    • Problems in specification and interpretation of central bank reaction functions 

      Dean, James W. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 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 ...

    • Procedures for integrated regional planning. 1.Background to decentralisation 

      Ross, M (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      The growing international interest in local self-government has received considerable attention. A 1969 resolution of the Council of Europe has called for the inclusion of the right to local self-government in the constitution ...

    • Procurement contracts under limited liability 

      Parlane, Sarah (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      This paper analyses procurement when contractors have limited liability and when the sponsor cannot commit to any specific form of future negotiation. It shows that introducing limited liability enhances competition and ...

    • Production functions for 14 subsectors of Irish industry, 1960-1968, for purpose of estimating employment 

      Henry, EW (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      During this past year two important research publications on production functions for Irish industry have appeared, by Kennedy and by Farley. The first analyses the growth rate of net output per unit of labour as a function ...