Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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Pricing to market, exchange rate changes and the transmission of inflation
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Productivity trends in Ireland - a rejoinder
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)In his reply to our earlier note (Sapsford and Kelly , 1980) Katsiaouni (1980) puts forward a number of justifications for the particular choice of sub-periods in his analysis o f trend growth rates in output per man-hour ... -
Productivity trends in Ireland - a reply
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)Sapsford and Kelly deal with that portion of my work which updated Kennedy's (1971) earlier study. Within this they focused on manufacturing productivity trends, in the post-war period, and not on productivity growth in ... -
Productivity trends in Ireland - a statistical note
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)In a recent study Katsiaouni (1979) presented, amongst other things, estimates of the trend rate of growth of labour productivity in manufacturing between 1953 and 1973. In this note we re-examine this aspect of Katsiaouni's ... -
Productivity, earnings and composition of labour - irish-manufacturing-industries, 1953-1966
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)In a paper read recently to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society oflreland by one of the present authors,1 differences in the growth of labour productivity in Irish manufacturing industries over the period 1953 to ... -
Productivity, prices, and factor shares in Irish manufacturing industry 1953-70
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)The share of wages and salaries in the net output of manufacturing industry over the period 1953-70 is shown in Fig. 1. The upward trend of the earlier years was reversed after 1957, and the share declined fairly.steadily ... -
Profitability, investment and employment - a survey of recent developments in medium-term growth theory
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on the relationship between profitability, investment and employment in an attempt to clarify the roles of demand-management, supply-management and incomes policies in ... -
Projections of Irish cattle and milk output under EEC conditions
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)Cattle and milk production are the most important enterprises in the agricultural sector of the Irish economy, accounting for about 57 per cent of gross output in 1970. There has been much speculation as to the likely ... -
Property cycles in Dublin - the anatomy of boom and slump in the industrial and office property sectors
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)The property development process is the means by which built space is created to accommodate the variety of urban functions. The paper examines the existence of boom-slump cycles in the industrial and office property ... -
Protectionism and product harmonization in the EEC
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)This work examines resistance to the harmonisation of performance, safety, and labeling criteria within the EEC. A theoretical treatment of possible protective and non-protective reasons for the delays encountered in ... -
Pseudo-bivariate structure of 2 x 2 contingency table - preliminary analysis
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)The paper by R. C. Geary on the comparative sensitivity of tests of significance to sample size contains the interesting suggestion that any 2 x 2 contingency table might be thought of as a sample realisation of a bivariate ... -
Psychological disturbance in Ireland, in England and in Irish emigrants to England - comparative study
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)A community survey involving 200 Irish emigrants to England, 200 natives of England and 200 residents of the Republic of Ireland was conducted to test a number of hypotheses drawn from mental hospital admission statistics. ... -
Psychosocial factors associated with psychological problems in Irish children and their mothers
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)This study examined behaviour problems, IQ and reading attainment in 2,029 ten year olds. Twenty per cent of the boys and 11 per cent of the girls were found to have behaviour problems. Disadvantaged children were more ... -
Public expenditure in ireland on housing in postwar period
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)This paper deals with expenditure by public authorities, central and local, on housing in the post-war period in Ireland. The first section outlines the main policy phases which were reflected in shifts in the pattern of ... -
Publications of Brendan M. Walsh
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Punishment - 3 analytical threads and violence they produce
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)In so far as punishment is concerned, it appears to me that the main features are to be found in an examination o f political dialogue; legal philosophy; and empirical research. It is as though the two cultures of Professor ...